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fitness Tripod part 3

Nutritional habits and lifestyle Nutrition or rather ‘sports nutrition’ is actually very big concept. Everybody has written about their opinion and experiences on nutrition. There are also many scientific studies on nutrition. How much protein to eat, how much carbs to eat and which and how much fat to eat are already written by many researchers and fitness experts. So I m not writing anything about that. So if you are looking for how much to eat for your macro nutrients this article is surely not for you. Why nutrition is important for fitness Nutrition is one thing that concerns everybody. Fitness freaks, athletes and also persons who don’t workout at all or hate to do so. Each of them is more or less concerned about their food. Nutrition is very important in achieving fitness goals. Some people achieve weight loss by working only on food habits. Nutrition is something which is important in any conditions. Weather a new born baby, grown adult, person who is ill, geriatrics everybody ...
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Training Tripod part 2

  2 Rest & Recovery  Rest and recovery is actually the most important aspect of any training program. But it is also most ignored and underutilized aspect. Most people don’t take rest and recovery very seriously. Whatever your training program and goal is you must need sleep in order to recover and train again. Sleep helps in increasing growth hormone levels, repairing muscles and recharging brain. We will see about the benefits of sleep later. Let’s talk about how much does sleep one need. For an adult who is training 5-6 days a week irrespective of strength or cardiovascular training (endurance), minimum 8 hours of sleep is important. Now this sleep should be uninterrupted. In most cases sleep is adequate but it is interrupted so the sleeping cycles get disturbed. Sleeping cycle is the transition our body goes through during sleep. 5 sleep cycles are important to recharge brain, recover muscle breakdown and restore energy levels. Each sleep cycle is of around 1 hour 30 m...
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Fitness Tripod part 1 Training

We all know the importance of fitness. And especially in today’s world it is even more relevant. Irrespective of gender and age fitness is equally important to all. Lot of us does something or the other for physical fitness. Some do strength training, some play sports, some of us do yoga and many do just walking.  Nevertheless lot of us fails to achieve the goals.     There are many reasons for not achieving goals. However there is three common mistakes and we are also ignorant towards it. To understand this lets first understand the concept of fitness tripod. Fitness tripod is three legged tripod which includes Training (progressive overload), rest & recovery and Nutrition. Many of us tend to focus on one of these factors. And ignore other two. There is also a saying that it’s   “70% nutrition and 30% training”. This according to me is not true. It is actually 100% of all three factors. If you ignore any one leg of this tripod you are not going to reach you...
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Training Tripod

Fitness Tripod  Hello guys, so I m starting this new blog on fitness. I will be posting content related to physical fitness every week. If you have any question in particular drop a comment below. Thanks!! We all know the importance of fitness. And especially in today’s world it is even more relevant. Irrespective of gender and age fitness is equally important to all. Lot of us does something or the other for physical fitness. Some does strength training, some play sports, some of do yoga and many does just walking. But whatever the activity is lot of us fails to reach our goals.     There are many reasons for achieving goals. However there is three common mistakes and we are also ignorant towards it. To understand this lets first understand the concept of fitness tripod. Fitness tripod is three legged tripod which includes Training (progressive overload), rest & recovery and Nutrition. Many of us tend to focus on one of these factors. And ignore other two. There is a...
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