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Metabolic Damage PART 1

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

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Massage Therapist position

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

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How to Lower Blood Pressure Without Medication

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

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Are Extra Steps Necessary?

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

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Exercise Technique

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

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Metabolic Damage PART 2

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.

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How to Increase your Protein Intake

  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

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How to Deal with ‘Bad’ Assessments

Demoralizing or motivating? That’s up to you! Tough love. No excuses. Realistic goals. Sacrifice. Game plan. These are a few of the major topics I try to tackle in my monthly blogs. Getting people to change their way of thinking,

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High Reps Tone, Low Reps Bulk

You’ve probably heard the phrase “high reps tone, low reps bulk” often enough to believe it’s a true physiological fact, right? Well, what if I told you that statement is wrong. In fact, what if I went on to say

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