Category «Interesting»
Acid-base balance: irrelevant for nutrition
A while back, a subscriber was wondering about my article about acid-base balance (which I deleted and replaced with this more comprehensive one). He tells me that he has read the book Paleo Nutrition by Julien Venesson (which I read a few years ago by the way), in which the author explains to us that …
The importance of vitamin D
Vitamin D has an essential role for health. Indeed, it helps maintain bone strength and cardiovascular health, and prevents certain autoimmune diseases. Being deficient in vitamin D can lead to a great loss of energy, nervousness, migraines and even depression. Over 80% of French people are deficient in this vitamin despite its importance. We will …
Hormones and bodybuilding
Our body composition: two big mistakes Mistake # 1 : our weight / body fat rate is regulated according to the calories that we eat Mistake # 2 : Our results are limited by our genetics. We can classify the different types of genetics by morphotypes: ectomorph, endomorph or mesomorph. Both of these claims are …
Shoulder training
Shoulder training is important if you want an athletic physique. ANATOMY There are three different portions: the anterior (front of the shoulders), lateral and posterior (back of the shoulders) bundles. The shoulder allows movement: abduction of the arm (during lateral elevations for example) of adduction (movement performed during the negative phase of lateral elevations) antepulsion …
Vegetarianism and health # 2
Carbohydrates in the evening or not?
Traditionally, it is advisable not to eat carbohydrates in the evening, because these would be stored as fat during sleep. More recently, we have been told that, on the contrary, it is interesting to eat carbohydrates to improve fat elimination. So inevitably, once again we are drowned in a flood of contradictory information and we …
Save your shoulders
After my two articles on correcting posture in general (see here: part 1 and part 2), I wanted to focus specifically on the concerns encountered on the shoulders. Indeed, the shoulders are the joints that pose the most problems for athletes! In this article, I will therefore go further by giving you a daily post-training …