Pre-Sleep Protein for Muscle Growth
If your goal is muscle growth, it’s possible that you may need to add a second scoop of IsaPro® to your Bedtime Belly Buster.
Podcast: Staying Healthy for the Holidays
The holiday season is infamous for wreaking havoc on your health and waistline. Manager of Product Education Sara Richter is on the call to share her tips for staying on track through the new year.
Why Just One Night of Poor Sleep Impairs Athletic Recovery
Ever have trouble falling asleep on time after a hard workout? That lack of sleep – even for a single night – could slow your recovery from athletic training, a new study reports (1).
Power Napping for Brain Power
Napping may be thought of as being unproductive and lazy, but it’s one of the most effective ways to restore your brain’s power.
Scientific studies have found that napping can restore wakefulness, promote learning, boost memory, reverse the hormonal impact of a night of poor sleep, and reduce stress.
Athletes, You Need More Sleep
Sleep for athletic performance is just as important as your training and nutritional program. Why? It’s because sleep is one of the strongest recovery mechanisms you have when it comes to intense training.
Eat More Protein, Sleep Better, Burn More Fat
Having a hard time falling asleep on some or most nights? It could be affecting your weight. But new research suggests that eating more protein while reducing your calories can improve sleep while assisting you with achieving greater fat loss (1).
Fat Loss While You Sleep
“Sticky fat” is a great name for the last ten pounds of fat that refuse to leave the building. Often they stick out from the belly or atop the hip bones. But, in many folk who hit a plateau in weight loss, there’s a lot more fat deep inside plumping them up like a goose...
Rise and Energize: Six Ways to Invigorate Your Mornings
There’s nothing better than waking up feeling refreshed and full of energy. But for most people, this takes some effort and planning. An energized morning depends on a disciplined bedtime routine and healthy dietary habits.
Circadian Rhythms Control Your Life
As did all life on Earth, humans evolved in concert with the rhythms of the light. The retinas of your eyes transmit the light to a biological clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the middle of your brain. The SCN then triggers thousands of physiological functions of hormones, nerves, muscles, organs, and brain 24 hours a day, lifelong (1,2).
Run, Hit The Weights, Sleep Better
If you’re like 40 percent of all Americans, according to a recent Gallup Poll, you’re not getting your recommended seven to nine hours of sleep daily (1). The answer? Run or bike (preferably in the morning) and weight train daily. (It doesn’t matter what time, day or night.)