Integrit Strength Performance

You can only #beastmode your way through so many days, weeks, or months of training. What most people fail to realize is that a lot of posts made by the strong, jacked, and ripped people of instagram tend to only show their good side. It should be no surprise that many social media posts are going to show people in a positive light. Realize that high level athletes are not exempt from bad training days. This is where the topic of deloading comes in. So what exactly is a deload? A deload is essentially backing off from training in order to further recovery. It is often an overlooked aspect of training. It turns out some rest every now and then is pretty good for you.     As mentioned previously, the deload is used simply as a break from training. It has both physical and psychological benefits. We need to recover because, simply put, exercise is stress. Allowing proper recovery c an decrease risk of injury and stimulate muscle growth. That’s right ladies and ...

    I am going to begin by ruining the suspense. The best diet is the diet you can stick to (easier said than done). A great thing about nutrition is that there are many approaches and sources of information available. Although this definitely qualifies as a downside as well. The internet is littered with an assortment of diets, methods, fads, and weight loss tips with varying credibility. How a certain diet or dieting method is chosen varies among individuals and ranges from celebrity endorsements to reading scientific literature on nutrition. The bottomline is that with the internet we have an abundance of information for almost anything and this includes nutrition. So how do we make the right decision when it comes to nutrition and our weight loss goals? Make your diet a lifestyle     It may seem obvious that a diet that can actually be followed through would yield the greatest results. Yet, many people are still suffering with what is te...

Some of you reading the title of this article already have anxiety. I can already feel the angst building. The term “Carbohydrate” in society today sends stomach butterflies fluttering and paleo enthusiasts back into their fire lit, spider infested, wall painted caves. Let’s be honest, if you have not heard the term “Paleo” or “keto” in the past couple of years then there’s a good chance you haven’t stepped into the gym very much. So what’s the hype? Exactly why do many people grab their children and run for the hills when they see wonder bread? Most importantly, why would people in the 21 st century ever want to eat like cavemen? Luckily, we will go into those questions in some more detail. For starters, let’s start by defining some simple terms so we can stay on the same page. In the most basic of terms, carbohydrates are a fuel source for the body made up of various types of sugar. The term sugar is being used very vaguely in this sense to describe any carbohydrate sourc...