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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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, 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 [...]