Genesis Zone

Is breakfast good beneficial or not? Well, I've not come to the conclusion that... It depends. You see a common problem people within the fitness industry suffer from is adrenal fatigue, if you suffer from adrenal fatigue you will not make enough cortisol and this makes it harder to maintain normal blood sugar levels. If you eat a breakfast, between say 6-8AM this can help with this issue, thebenefit of this can last up to approximately 10AM, this is where we get into the realm of balance and passing this should be avoided for health purposes. As mentioned above evening protein intake is important, but then I also recommend periods of fasting for at the most 12 hours with 10 hours being the ideal minimum to support processes such as insulin sensitivity, autophagy and more. It is true that carbohydrates in the morning and post-workout are less likely to be stored as fat.  So here really, the choice is yours, you either can skip it and hav...

People ask me about fiber types, and how training different ranges would promote more hypetrophy, the thing is you can usually tell by their rate of progress at different repetition ranges to see where they likely are on twitch dominance, but this applies to the muscle groups being trained. Fast twitch dominant people will make fast progress in the low rep ranges but slow twitch dominant people will make slow progress in the low rep ranges. The opposite is also true, fast twitch people will make slow progress in the high rep ranges but slow twitch dominant people will make fast progress in the higher rep ranges. Although it's not as simple as simply looking at fast vs slow twitch people, individual muscles and muscle groups can vary wildly, for example you might be very fast twitch in your pecs and triceps but very slow twitch in your lats and biceps etc. It takes a lot of experimentation to determine the optimal RM number for each ...

Random question I've received on CBL diet, the question can't really be simplified, the quoted a section to be and asked my thoughts, I am going to quote this section here for those who do not own the book as it won't be clear what I'm answering. So, the quoted section is -- "What makes caffeine integral to Carb Back-Loading is the ability to cause transient insulin insensitivity. Not only does insulin interfere with the actions of caffeine, but caffeine interferes with insulin's function as well, by decreasing insulin mediated tGLUT response. With caffeine, it's possible to both amplify Carb Back-Loading when training at the perfect time, but also to modify insulin sensitivity to accommodate training at non-ideal times, such as in first thing in the morning. People are the most sensitive to insulin in the morning, and most apt to store excess carbs as fat — caffeine changes that. Cells can no longer clear glucose as rapidly, so the extende...

Random question I've received on time under tension, simplified, should we be concerned about time under tension?  My answer is that TUT isn't important in and of itself, forget about it, it only applies to fresh sets, as soon as you start factoring in pre-fatigue it all goes out the window. As I've already said an 8-12RM falls within the optimal TUT zone for your first set. TUT is just another way of describing the tension and fatigue ratio, for example during low rep heavy sets there's high tension but low fatigue, the TUT is short, during high rep light sets there's low tension but high fatigue, the TUT is long, during moderate rep sets the tension and fatigue are both moderate, TUT is moderate. So what really matters is tension and fatigue, not TUT, TUT is just a way of expressing the ratio of tension and fatigue. By using an 8-12RM we have the optimal amount of tension and by taking our sets to failure and using rest-pause sets we ...