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Has Your Metabolism Slowed Down? [Faster Metabolism Blueprint]

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The Faster Metabolism Blueprint is an assessment to determine if your metabolism has slowed down and whether or not you need to adjust your nutrition. Has your metabolism slowed down? HAS YOUR METABOLISM SLOWED DOWN? If you’ve been dieting for what seems like forever (and not seeing results), whether it’s for a special event or even just to hit your goal weight, it might be time for a break. Dieting is exhausting, isn’t it? But, how do you take a diet break without piling on the pounds? It might be time to try a reverse diet, but how do you know if you need one? Has your metabolism slowed down? WHAT IS REVERSE DIETING? Reverse dieting is a strategic eating plan designed to gradually increase your daily caloric intake in order to boost metabolism and help your body burn more calories. Reverse dieting helps the body recover from the damage caused by strict diets and has benefits for mental and hormonal health as well. Sometimes called the ‘diet after a diet,’ a reverse

Dear Mark: Maximum Aerobic Function (MAF) Training

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For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m going to be answering questions about Maximum Aerobic Function, or MAF. If this is your first time hearing the term, MAF refers to a method of endurance training that maximizes the function of your fat-burning aerobic system. I’ve come down hard on conventional or popular modes of endurance training in the past for being too stressful and reliant on sugar. MAF training is the opposite: low stress and reliance on body fat. Let’s dive right in to the questions: What is MAF training? MAF trains your aerobic fat-burning system to be more efficient and produce greater output at the same “intensity.” It means slowing the hell down to go faster. It means the slower you go, the more fat you’re burning and the better your mitochondria are getting at utilizing fat for energy. It means training up to but not over your maximum aerobic heart rate. MAF was coined by Phil Maffetone, who came up with an ingenious way to calculate your max aerobic heart rate: