Passing Power

Strength Training!! Something that only a select few of us do but most would benefit from.

Strength training is the next step after hypertrophy. This type of training allows us to “wake up” the muscle fibers that may be new or never have been used as the body has never been challenged that much. The benefits of this are increased motor unit recruitment, increase hormone release, increase in bone density and increase in muscle mass at times too.

May powerlifters use this type of training but many of us will benefit by doing this type of training for several weeks during the year.

Sugar has been at the centre of many debates in recent years.

Sugar is something out body needs to function. Yet, It’s one of the most addicting substances on the planet and many food companies use this to their advantage by filling up their foods with an abundance of added sugar. This in turn leads to addiction to the product, weight gain and negative impacts on health.

But is there a difference between sugar and added sugar? No.

What’s different is what is considered ‘Natural Sugar’ in a nutrition label comes with the fibres that our body needs to digest it slowly.

When we see ‘added sugar’ , even though it’s the same compound, there’s no fibre that comes with it, meaning when the sugar hits out small intestine, it goes straight to our liver and floods it. This damages the liver and any excess sugar deposits itself as fat.

A big loophole that has been seen is in sugary drinks. An orange juice can have 4 times the sugar content of an orange (as 4 oranges are needed to make the amount of juice) but all the fibre gets removed in the making process, so now our body is taking in 4 times the amount of sugar we would be expecting and it floods the liver straight away. This is why sweet drinks are the leading cause of obesity in the US.

Episode 4 time!

We’re back on the international hype. This week I’m joined by Masoud, not sure what’s more confusing his actual nationality or how to say his full name. But he does do a good podcast. Since graduating he has had a journey or many occupations where he finally found a home with his coffee company. We talk about his time as a student athlete playing soccer and the different path choices he could take after graduating with his bachelors.

Join in to learn about the coffee trading business, the many choices that internationals have when graduating from college and also to just listen to us talk s**t for half the time!

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