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The Vegetarian Diet
The vegetarian diet has gained considerable popularity in recent years as people become more conscious of their health, environmental impact, and animal welfare concerns. This dietary choice involves abstaining from meat, poultry, and fish, and often includes a...
The Paleo Diet
The Paleo diet, inspired by the eating habits of our ancient ancestors during the Paleolithic era, has gained considerable attention in recent years. Promising to enhance overall health and well-being, this dietary approach advocates a return to the basics by...
The Carnivore Diet
This post was written by Irene Mejia, RD and Sports Nutrition Specialist. In the past few decades, many low-carb diets have emerged, such as Atkins or the “keto diet”. But in the late 2010’s, a new type of diet started gaining attention, especially due to...
Reasons to Vary Load Placement
People are motivated to exercise for a variety of reasons and more often, people have a myriad of goals that they are working towards at any given moment. Varying load placement is an excellent way of balancing competing goals, especially when attempting to keep gym...
Ketogenic Diet
The ketogenic diet, or the “keto diet”, is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet that has gained popularity in recent years. As we will cover more in depth in the following sections, the ketogenic diet was developed as a nutrition intervention for epilepsy. ...
Foundations of Movement Part 2 Formation of Technique
In the last article, we discussed the foundation of movement and covered effectiveness and efficiency. Now, we will take a deeper dive into efficiency and break down all the components involved in creating better techniques or the formation of techniques. Let's start...
Foundation of Movement Part 1
The following article is part of a series on the foundations and principles behind human movement. Instead of emphasizing performance metrics like strength or power, or aesthetic goals like toning or losing weight, we should emphasize learning movement. Metrics like...
Diets – Why Do We Have Them?
You may have waited in a grocery store line and seen magazines talking about dozens of types of diets, but have you ever wondered: why do we even have so many diets in the first place? Why is there a need for a carnivore diet, plant-based diet, traditional...
The Evolution of the Exerscience Fitness Logo
It all started in 2013, 6 months before completing my Masters in Exercise Physiology. Exerscience Fitness was a play on the field of Exercise Science and Fitness. My wife hastily created the original logo after I shared with her various stock logo images from Google....
Fitness vs Capability, Should we be Trainers or Coaches and Physical Educators?
Nine years into fitness and I have come to the realization that It’s not about how in shape you are, it’s about how capable you are. When you are a child playing outside in nature or a jungle gym, you move around just fine. You explore, monkey around, have fun, and if...