Dr. Bryce Lee discusses how exercise can both help and harm our efforts to achieve a healthy body composition.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) gets very little air-time despite the huge number of women it affects. Many of my own clients struggle with it, and I’ve wanted to to write about it for years. And while I am not qualified to do a deep-dive on the entire pathophysiology and treatment of this condition. I can … Read more
Dr. Bryce Lee discusses the risks of myosteatosis, or fatty muscle disease, and how strength training can prevent it.
Dr. Bryce Lee, DPT, discusses the unique challenges of exercising in a severe calorie deficit.
Before we start, here is an important disclaimer: if you are currently being treated for pelvic floor dysfunction, I would encourage you to adhere to your clinician’s guidance, and to run these suggestions by them first. Exercises for abdominal strengthening with diastasis recti often involve an increase in intra-abdominal pressure. Even though the approach to … Read more
Visceral fat accumulates around our organs. It is a key sign of metabolic dysfunction, and can lead to a problem of them abdominal muscles called diastasis recti.
So far, we have learned that drawn out, arduous workouts can derail our diet plan by giving us an insatiable appetite and cravings. Sensible eating is key, and there’s no way we’ll keep to a healthy way of eating if we are hungry all the time! We also learned how brief, High Intensity Interval or … Read more
This is part III of a series on exercising for fat loss and improved metabolic health. If we want to lose weight and keep it off sustainably, we have to prioritize appetite control. We already saw how over-exercising can derail that effort by causing us to overeat, and learned how shifting our focus to short, … Read more
“I lost 60 lbs following this diet a few years ago.” “That’s great! Were you able to stick with that?” .“No, I was starving all the time…” Poorly controlled hunger makes dieting unsustainable. Anyone can go hungry for a few weeks, cutting portions and relying on willpower in an attempt to lose a few pounds. … Read more
In Part I, I explain how trying to burn calories through long, arduous workouts can cause overeating and weight gain. In Part II, I explain how we can instead use exercise to reduce our appetites and eating. In 2008, I was the most active I’d ever been. For over an hour every day (sometimes twice … Read more