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When you work out, the production of muscle protein is enhanced for the next 24 to 48 hours. It is  important to provide essential building blocks for protein synthesis. These building blocks called amino acids must be already available for the protein synthesis, if you train hard but do not provide your body with the appropriate amount of proteins to repair the damage caused by the hard training of muscles, then it doesn’t provide any benefit to your body, instead, you may end up with muscle pains, fatiguability, and weakness that may last for a long time. Therefore, intake of readily available proteins is advised to those people who actively workout with an aim to build their muscle mass. Eggs are a great natural source of readily available and easily digestible proteins. Egg contains all the essential amino acids, that is why the intake of eggs is advised to all bodybuilders. But a single egg contains 3 – 6 g of proteins, you may need to take more than a dozen eggs to meet the...

What is the best time to do jogging or running to promote more weight loss? Answer; Weight loss is not an easy task, you have to burn 3500 calories to lose 1 lb of weight. But if you are taking 3000 calories per day and you are burning only 2500, it means there is a net excess of 500 calories, and these 500 calories will be stored as fat or glycogen.  On the other hand, if you are taking 2000 calories and are burning 2200 calories per day, then it means, you are burning 200 calories using your body stores, which are present in the form of fats or glycogen.  According to me, and my personal experience plus professional knowledge, the best time to exercise is early morning when you wake up. The reason is, at this time, you haven't had taken anything since last 9-10 hours, therefore, at this time the working out or jogging will take energy from your body stores instead of the food that you take because your stomach has been empty and since last 5-6 hours. ...

Every man and woman want the perfect shape of his and her body respectively. We don't want to look fat and odd. It is very easy to gain weight for some people. Some people are genetically predisposed to gaining weight and they gain weight more easily as compared to others. But once you have gained extra weight, it is not easy to lose those extra pounds. First of all, you would like to know whether you are overweight or not. Your optimum weight is determined by calculating BMI. If your BMI is more than 18 and less than 25 then you are ok. Any value of more than 25 tells you that you need to lose weight.  To know about BMI Read Calculate and Interpret Your BMI So if you find out that you have more weight than normal. Then everybody advises you to start exercising. Now there are two types of exercises. 1. Aerobics, such as walking, swimming, jogging etc. 2. Anaerobics: Such as weight lifting and resistance training. Aerobic and Anaerobic have their own benefits, But in this ...

What is the best time to exercise? This question may come into your mind and you might have read or heard many contradictory statements on this topic. Some say the evening is the best time and others prefer the morning. Some also like to exercise after or before lunch. Let us discuss why these people have different opinions. Why some prefer morning over the evening and vice versa. Is Morning the best time to exercise? The simple answer to this question is “it totally depends upon you”. Is this the time you like to exercise? Is this the time you can do and also can continue your exercise every day and you can easily make this a habit? if yes then it is probably the best time. In the evening you may become busy in other activities which may make it difficult for you to spare some time for exercise. Morning time is the best time for those individuals who have a busy daily schedule. Moreover, Morning workouts require much more time to warm up then evening routines. The fresh air in the m...

The tall height looks good and attractive. Everybody wants to grow tall. Here let us discuss what can help you to increase your height and what are things that don’t affect the height but are highly advertised. 1. Genetics: Height is genetically defined. If your body has not a dominant gene of taller height, you can’t do much to increase your height. If both of your parents are tall then you will be tall. If one of your parents is tall then there is a 75% chance that you will grow tall. If both of your parents are short then still there is 25% chance that you will be tall, it depends on the heterozygosity of your mother. Anyhow Genetics has the main role to play in determining the height of a person. 2. Nutrition and diet: Nutrition and diet is a second important factor in determining the height of an individual. If you have good genetic height but you don’t eat well you can’t grow tall. Bones and body muscle needs calories in the form of proteins , carbohydrates and fats (Diet sho...

Ways to Accelerate Metabolism: To know the causes of slow metabolism Click here . Eliminate these causes to improve your metabolism. The other scientifically proven ways of metabolism are explained below. 1. Adequate sleep Sleep deprivation has significant effects on metabolism. Majority of epidemiological studies suggested that lack of sleep is linked to obesity. It is suggested that a lack of sleep alter the glucose metabolism and hormones involved in metabolism. (International Journal of Endocrinology, 2010). You should maintain good sleep hygiene. Recommended sleep duration for adults is eight hours. 2. Aerobic Exercises: Aerobic exercises Increase the rate (speed) of metabolism. Aerobic Exercises (Benefits of Aerobic exercises) include jogging, swimming, cycling, dancing and walking etc. when we do aerobic exercise, we burn both carbohydrate and fats. That is why these are excellent weight loss exercises. On the other hand, An-aerobic exercises burn carbohydrates only. Anaer...

Metabolism Converts Food into energy. Metabolism is a process in which carbohydrates, proteins and fats break down into smaller particles which are then utilized by the body to produce energy. If you have a good metabolism then you will be more active and healthy. Some people have genetically inherited fast metabolism. Men tend to have a better metabolism than women because they are more muscular. There are various scientifically proven ways of accelerating the body metabolism. But first we will briefly discuss the causes of a slow metabolism: Causes of Slow Metabolism: 1. Hypothyroidism . Thyroid Hormone promotes utilization of carbohydrates, proteins and fats to produce energy. Deficiency of Thyroid hormone slows down metabolism: 4.6% of US population has hypothyroidism ( JC-Endocrinology and metabolism. 2009) 2. Diabetes : Non-diabetic individuals can lose weight easily as compared to non-diabetics. Hyperglycemia mistakenly tells the body that there is a lot of energy aroun...