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Nov 27, 2020

Better Breathe in Your Mask

Health & Training Benefits of Nose Breathing — To mask, or not to mask? That is the question. If you care about other people other than yourself, the answer is pretty obvious. All over the West side of Los Angeles are hikers and joggers with bandannas and scarves wrapped around their necks or masks attached to the bottom…

Health

10 min read

Better Breathe in Your Mask
Better Breathe in Your Mask

Nov 14, 2020

Cardio Sucks for Fat-loss

How to Really Train to Get Lean Cardio sucks for fat-loss. Yeah, I said it. The most ubiquitous way that most people try to lose weight is not even close to the best way. In fact, focusing on this modality alone is a huge part of why so many people…

Fat Loss

13 min read

Cardio Sucks for Fat-loss
Cardio Sucks for Fat-loss

Oct 3, 2020

Building an Optimal Diet

All Diets “Work” but Diets Don’t Work — What’s the best diet? It depends. All of them, none of them. I’ve seen them all work, but diets don’t work. …

Health

24 min read

Building an Optimal Diet
Building an Optimal Diet

Sep 1, 2020

Chrono Fasting

Syncing Intermittent Fasting with Circadian Rhythm — I, monks, do not eat a meal in the evening. Not eating a meal in the evening I, monks, am aware of good health and of being without illness and of buoyancy and strength and living in comfort. Come, do you too, monks, not eat a meal in the evening…

Fasting

13 min read

Chrono Fasting
Chrono Fasting

Apr 1, 2020

Fit From Home

Quarantine Workouts — With shelter in place orders in effect all around the world and fitness equipment sold out or not shipping from many major suppliers, the biggest trend in fitness is working out from home. I’ve written in the past about why you should build a home gym and you probably wouldn’t…

Workout

19 min read

Fit From Home
Fit From Home

Dec 23, 2019

Muscle is Functional

…but your functional workout is a joke — It seems like with the rise of “functional” training the idea of gaining muscle or trying to look better became a silly idea, or at least one many people won’t cop to. What are your goals? You know, to be more functional. No, I don’t know. …

Fitness

9 min read

Muscle is Functional
Muscle is Functional

Oct 7, 2019

Squat For Everything

Build a Better You — One of the best places to go for new training ideas is the past. Trust me. It’s been done before and better. The more time I spend researching the means and methods of the past, the more I have come to realize that, try as we might, there is nothing…

Fitness

10 min read

Squat For Everything
Squat For Everything

Sep 23, 2019

Essential Muscle Building Supplements

Nothing Works if You Don’t — I keep having the same conversation with one of my long-time clients again and again. He has a job where he travels often and it seems to me must be reading fitness magazines or scrolling through his feeds while on long those flights. As a result, every time he lands…

Fitness

12 min read

Essential Muscle Building Supplements
Essential Muscle Building Supplements

Sep 7, 2019

On Alternate-Day Fasting

Building a Healthier Relationship With Food — The latest new diet that isn’t actually new at all is intermittent fasting. I know it just hit the Today show a few days ago, or so I’ve been told, but intermittent fasting is a nutrient timing technique that many in the fitness world have been using for quite some…

Weight Loss

15 min read

On Alternate-Day Fasting
On Alternate-Day Fasting

Aug 28, 2019

Does Caffeine Block Creatine?

How Get The Most Out of Creatine — One of the most persistent questions around creatine is whether caffeine blocks it's absorption. Back in the early days, creatine was a common addition to many a lifters coffee, but today many avoid doing this to avoid mixing creatine and caffeine. What gives? …

3 min read

Does Caffeine Block Creatine?
Does Caffeine Block Creatine?
Simon Peter de Veer

Simon Peter de Veer

Savvy's Dad. Business, Man. Dog Whisperer. Mindful Meathead, Fitness Geek: http://www.simonsaystraining.com

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