How to Finally Reign Over Any Sabotaging Food Craving
Let’s talk about those food cravings that sabotage your weight loss efforts. By definition, a craving is an intense desire to consume a particular type of food that is hard to resist.
If you didn’t already know, nothing beats strength training when it comes to building muscle and strength. This is crucial to boosting your metabolism, ensuring optimal fat loss, getting you strong, and obviously making you look smoking hot naked.
Those benefits alone are worth drooling over yet so many people avoid strength training for dumb reasons like worrying about getting too big. Lol, you wish bro.
But anyways, this article isn’t intended to tell you the already obvious benefits of lifting weights, but rather outline all the not so obvious benefits apart from muscular gains.
Strength training improves your life in so many ways that not doing it is like begging for a suboptimal existence. And no, that’s not an exaggeration. Look at the research below my friend.
So as you can see, strength training is literally a gift from God. Very few things have this many amazing benefits. Start lifting if you’re already not doing so. Or don’t. Whatevers, I’m not the boss of you…
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JT;, SantaBarbara NJ;Whitworth JW;Ciccolo. “A Systematic Review of the Effects of Resistance Training on Body Image.” Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28723817/.
Santiago LCS;Lyra MJ;Germano-Soares AH;Lins-Filho OL;Queiroz DR;Prazeres TMP;Mello MT;Pedrosa RP;Falcão APST;Santos MAM; “Effects of Strength Training on Sleep Parameters of Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial.” Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32379244/.
Herold, Fabian, et al. “Functional and/or Structural Brain Changes in Response to Resistance Exercises and Resistance Training Lead to Cognitive Improvements – a Systematic Review.” European Review of Aging and Physical Activity : Official Journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity, BioMed Central, 10 July 2019, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6617693/.
Dunn EC;Humberstone CE;Franchini E;Iredale KF;Blazevich AJ; “Relationships Between Punch Impact Force and Upper- And Lower-Body Muscular Strength and Power in Highly Trained Amateur Boxers.” Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32218063/.
Liu, Yubo, et al. “Resistance Exercise Intensity Is Correlated with Attenuation of HbA1c and Insulin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, MDPI, 7 Jan. 2019, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6339182/.
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Let’s talk about those food cravings that sabotage your weight loss efforts. By definition, a craving is an intense desire to consume a particular type of food that is hard to resist.
Think of your most stubborn muscle group that’s so painfully small despite how hard you train it. Perhaps, it’s your narrow back, your chopstick calves, or your flat butt.
Detoxing is the latest buzzword and everyone thinks they need to detox. However, nobody knows what they’re detoxing from, what detoxing accomplishes, and to how to go about it.