Ghrelin & Sleep – How Sleep Affects Fat Loss
It’s possible that a crappy night’s sleep can do this for your fat loss. Hey, I’m Coach Brian, certified strength coach, certified sports nutritionist with criticalbench.com. Now let’s talk about this thing called sleep. We all need sleep. We’ve put so much effort into living a healthy lifestyle throughout the day, or we try to at least, but we put so little effort in to sleep, but yet sleep is such an important thing on everything,...
Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps Ingredients: 4 oz ground lean chicken 1/2 cup white mushrooms, chopped 1 tsp minced garlic 1/2 cup shredded carrots 2 butter lettuce leaves 2 Tbsp chives, minced Sauce: ...
Why Stretching Won’t Make You Flexible
About a month ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with my colleague Coach Brian Klepacki, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Functional Movement Specialist with Critical Bench to ask discuss why stretching will not make us flexible. To be honest, I grew up in a time where whether it was school sports, dance class, organized sports teams, I was encouraged to stretch, not only to warm up my muscles for a better...
The Many Wonders Of Wheatgrass
It seems much too simple to be of any tremendous value. I mean really, it is just GRASS! Sure a thick, luxurious mat of it feels incredible under bare feet on a cool summer evening and most folks would love for their lawn to rival the golf course green. But grass as a SUPERFOOD . . . come on! Well, many folks have weighed in on this topic so if you haven’t heard about wheatgrass until now and the many reasons why so many people...
