Tag: lower stress to build muscle

When you go to the gym or work out, your goal is to build stronger and bigger muscles. When I was growing up, all the magazines would say, “you have to go to failure on all your sets” in order to build more muscle. “It’s that last rep that builds muscles” This is true and […]

Video Summary Stress can come in all shapes and sizes. Physical and emotional stress is basically the same for the body. Your hormones react in the same negative action. Basically, as your stress hormones go up – such as adrenaline and cortisol, your testosterone comes down. And if you think about it LOGICALLY, it makes […]

Video Summary These days when someone asks me what the #1 killer is, I tell them – STRESS. In fact, the World Health Organization has stated that stress has become an epidemic in . Stress Can Be Beneficial Stress has many benefits and it’s required for survival. When you get emotionally stressed or need to […]

Video Summary Today’s video is about what to do post-workout to speed up the recovery and lower stress and cortisol so you can build more muscle. Testosterone is an anabolic hormone – which means it helps build muscle, while the opposite of testosterone is stress hormone –  Cortisol – a catabolic hormone, which slows down […]