You may notice many older people have less muscle mass. That’s because of sarcopenia, which is muscle loss due to aging and related to a reduction in hormones. You can slow the process and even reverse it in some cases and many of my senior members at Next Level Fitness in Irvine, CA, prove it […]
You are what you eat and if you want to look younger and be the best version of yourself, there are foods that can help you do it. Foods contain not only nutrients for building healthy looking skin a more youthful appearance, but also antioxidants that protect each cell from free radicals. Free radicals cause […]
If you want to take seconds of your running time, your natural inclination is to run more. However, there are other things you can do to improve your performance when it comes to running. There are workouts to get faster and ways to improve your overall fitness that will cut seconds to minutes off your […]
Have you read about a waist trainer and thought it looked like a no effort option to get a smaller waist? Maybe you didn’t even know exactly what one was. A waist trainer squeezes your midsection and is supposed to train your waist to an hour glass figure. Think corset. You know those antiquated undergarments […]
At Next Level Fitness in Irvine, CA, we devise training schedules and workouts based on individual needs. In some cases, we create workouts that use full body workouts, other times, we create those that break down the workouts to various parts of the body. When you do isolation exercises, leg day seems to be the […]
At Next Level Fitness in Irvine, CA, we help you with every aspect of fitness. Fitness through exercise is only one part of our service. We offer help in all areas of health, wellness and making lifestyle changes to achieve those goals. Learning to eat healthy is just as important as having a regular workout […]
If you’re like many people, you go to the gym three times a week, but is that all you really need to be fit? It all depends on your goals. Do you want to lose weight? Is building more muscle your goal? There’s a lot to be said for home cardio workouts as a supplement […]
People overweight and those with high blood pressure are often given a diet without salt. Studies all agree that the average American diet is contains too much sodium. The chemical name for salt is sodium chloride, and it’s one of the leading causes of too much sodium that can lead to stroke and heart disease. […]
The body uses various types of fatty acids to run smoothly. There are two types of essential fatty acids that the body can’t make. They come from diet. Those two are omega-6 and omega-3. The healthiest blend of the two is 4 to 1, or four times as much omega6 as omega3. Throughout the US, […]
If you don’t know what leaky gut is, don’t worry, there’s still some discussion on whether it’s a real. According to proponents, it occurs when the permeability of the gut increases, thus allowing even more than just nutrients and water to exit, but also harmful substances. That allows toxins to enter the bloodstream and creates […]