Author: shaunearl

Despite knowing the value sleep brings to our performance in sports or everyday activities, the majority of us still don’t get enough sleep.

Quality sleep is the most powerful tool when recovering from physical and physiological stressors.

Sleep is roughly 90-120 minute cycles, and a good night’s sleep will repeat these cycles up to four times without interruptions while allowing you to wake up a the end of a sleep cycle.

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Once I started studying the importance of fatigue management, I realized how important it is to include deload weeks into a workout schedule.

We all need to take a deload week, and everyone needs them for different reasons. Unfortunately, most of us wait until a plateau before making these adjustments in our workout programs. Without a scheduled deload week, we are forcing ourselves to take a week off altogether in order to repair muscle damage accumulated by training too hard for too long.

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Nutrition is becoming introduced into the school curriculum around grade four.

Unfortunately, the average adult has a lack of understanding when it comes to eating healthily. And really, it’s nobody’s fault other than social media and its false accusations. But the truth is, we are disoriented by FAB diets that are creating bad relationships with food!

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