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Morris Turns Back the Clock!

By PJ Glassey / / Comments Off on Morris Turns Back the Clock!

Morris raised his good cholesterol, lowered his inflammation markers, increased endurance and more!

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Another Keto X Gymer Success Story!

By PJ Glassey / / Comments Off on Another Keto X Gymer Success Story!

A picture truly is worth 10,000 words, so here are Sam’s results from being consistent with his 21 minutes workouts, twice a week at the X Gym, coupled with the ketogenic diet: Still wondering if keto or low carb is for you? Click here to get started down that rabbit hole… Click here for more health…

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Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Lactic Acid…

By PJ Glassey / / Comments Off on Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Lactic Acid…

Research review by Alki X Gym trainer Aaron Wagar “Lactate—a signal coordinating cell and systemic function” Andrew Philip, Adam L. Macdonald, & Peter W. Watt For many years, the scientific, medical, athletic communities and the general population have accepted the fact that lactate is a just a by-product created by exercising muscle fibers. It was…

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Is Fatigue All in Your Head?

By PJ Glassey / / Comments Off on Is Fatigue All in Your Head?

Inspired by a recent review done by Timothy Noakes, an exercise physiologist out of South Africa, I will be discussing what is to me at least, a relatively new model of fatigue. In school, I was taught that “exercise induced fatigue” was purely failure of the muscular system to maintain a given intensity of work.…

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