by Karina Noboa | May 5, 2021 | Article, Podcasts, Uncategorized
You’ve done all the right things in your offseason. You’ve built up your calories, spent adequate time away from dieting, stabilized your hormones and worked on your relationship with food. But even after doing everything “right” your fat loss phase just isn’t going...
by Karina Noboa | Apr 28, 2021 | Article, Podcasts, Uncategorized
Most adults have over 100,00 kcal of energy in stored fat. This is approximately 50 times more than that available from carbohydrates stored as glucose in the liver and skeletal muscle. Our body’s ability to store energy came in handy back in caveman times where food...
by Samantha Hall | Apr 22, 2021 | Article, Podcasts, Uncategorized
Expectations are powerful and can have a positive or negative impact on our outcomes and experiences. Sometimes, these expectations can help us to see what we want to see. They can help shift our perspective and improve our overall experiences. They can even increase...
by Gillian SanFilippo | Apr 13, 2021 | Article, Podcasts, Uncategorized
“But how did you manage not training for 6 weeks?!”“I can’t imagine taking off from the gym that long.”“Won’t I lose all my progress if I can’t train for __ days/weeks, though?” I recently had surgery at the end of January (you can get more info here… shameless plug),...
by teamlocofitnew | Apr 7, 2021 | Article, Podcasts, Uncategorized
If you’ve read any of our previous articles about stress perception and understanding the role of anxiety and challenges, you’ll be familiar with our stance that stress is not the problem, it’s the perceptions of the stress that causes a maladaptive response. In this...
by Karina Noboa | Mar 30, 2021 | Article, Podcasts, Uncategorized
“I’ve seen a lot of fitness influencers who stopped tracking and training as much, but they’re maintaining their physiques effortlessly. How do you get to this unicorn zone of balance where you’re committed to your health but not obsessive over it?” For anyone who is...