Learn from AFS Health & Fitness Coaches

You all have heard the old adage that 6 small meals a day is important for weight loss and a healthy diet. If you haven’t heard that, at the very least you’ve heard that 6 meals per day is BETTER

  Wait, what? Increase protein intake? I thought Americans ate too much protein? Well you’re right, kind of. Americans eat too much of everything: fat, protein, and carbohydrate. However, once someone is in a calorie deficit, protein is the one

In the first part of this blog, I defined “metabolic damage” as the down regulation in metabolism due to an extreme or sustained calorie deficit. Now, I will tell you how to address it using the intervention protocol we’ve developed.

Think of technique as a guideline, we want to stick within that guideline to ensure the safety of the movement and the proper activation of the muscle groups being targeted. People tend to stick to the guidelines, but sometimes they

One of our biggest goals at AFS is for you, the client, to always leave with a game plan to help you reach your body composition and fitness goals. One of the primary ways we accomplish this is through prescribing

The Daily Struggle One of the largest obstacles people claim to face every day is their “uncontrollable” calorie environment. When someone is failing to lose weight I ask: “Have you been food logging?” In response, I often get: “I tried,

High blood pressure (hypertension) is very common in the United States: approximately 1 out of every 3 adults (67 million) have high blood pressure. High blood pressure increases the risk for heart disease and stroke, which are the two leading

We’re Hiring! Due to the expansion of its therapeutic massage therapy program, Ann Arbor, MI-based Applied Fitness Solutions is looking for a therapeutic massage therapist for immediate employment. Candidates must have completed a certification program from an accredited massage therapy

Imagine this: you’re eating 800 calories a day, exercising 2-3 hours a day, and you can’t lose any weight. Sounds like a crazy, almost implausible situation – right? Well, although rare, this can be precisely the case with individuals who

Walk into any well-known fitness franchise and you’re bound to see one or more of the following: someone on a machine for ten minutes doing everything BUT the proper movement; a morbidly obese individual slowly pedaling a recumbent bicycle while

WHAT IS IT Branch chain amino acids (BCAAs) consist of three of the twenty amino acids (building blocks of protein) and three of the nine essential amino acids. Essential amino acids must be ingested because our bodies are unable to

Sticking to a consistent exercise routine can be hard. Work, family, weather, and a host of other factors often create a perfect storm dead set on keeping us out of the gym. As fitness professionals, one advantage we have over