Fitness Builds Resilience
Resilience is defined as: 1. the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. 2. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity. Fitness [...]
Wave Periodization
At Vital Active Living, we customize workouts. We design your workouts according to your goals and abilities and preferences. And we also progress your workouts so that you continue to see [...]
Getting Back Into Shape After Shutdown
People are thinking about getting back into shape now that the stay-at-home order has been lifted. Some people took advantage of the lockdown to get more active. However, I suspect many, if not [...]
Building Muscle: Training Guidelines
There are three main mechanisms for building muscle size (otherwise known as hypertrophy): Intensity Time under Tension Metabolic Stress Intensity refers muscle growth due to the recruitment of [...]
Are you eating enough protein?
Whether you want to lose fat or gain muscle, you need to eat protein. You may have heard about low-carb diets, low-fat diets or high-fat diets. One macronutrient that is non-negotiable, however, [...]
Eccentric Training For Muscle Gains
Eccentric training is strengthening a muscle in the direction of lowering the weight. In our last blog If You’re Not Seeing Muscle Gains, Do This 1 Thing we discussed the importance of lower [...]
Metabolic Training – Part 2
In Metabolic Training – Part 1 we looked at traditional views of weight loss, namely, dieting and doing a lot of steady state cardio. Cardio exercise is good, but it requires time and it can take [...]
Metabolic Training – Part 1
Metabolic training, as its name implies, is training that improves your metabolism. A higher metabolism means that your body burns more calories. It means that you can eat more and your body will [...]