The Journey of Fitness and Nutrition

 Maybe you already viewed my profile but if you haven’t found that page and came across this one first, let me take a moment to say welcome and I appreciate you for stopping by and taking a gander of this very amateur but hopefully informational piece of literature. So here’s a little about me and my journey. My name is Kevin, born and raised in the suburbs of Des Moines, Iowa. I didn’t really do fitness until I graduated high school but I was very limited in my knowledge at the time. At that time I was doing stuff like P90X with a buddy. It’s a great program and I highly recommend it if you want that high intensity cardio style training. So that’s where I started, between that and running 6 miles a day, that was my workout routine and just having a see food diet. I was 18 and knew exactly zero about fitness and nutrition.  So let’s fast forward a couple years to around 22 years old. Still didn’t know squat about nutrition but I had a gym membership now. Granted I probably had...

Calories and protein are all we care about... The question everyone wants the answer to is, how any calories can I eat and lose weight? Unfortunately this is not a one size fits all answer. There is a wide range of variables that go into answer but to keep it simple we can say the average person should consume 10-12 calories per pound of body weight to be in a deficit. For an example, I weight on average 160lbs. and for me to be in a deficit and lose weight, a good starting calorie range for me is 1600-1920 calories. From personal experience I would like to be as close to that 1920 as possible, maybe a little over even. Well how could I eat more to remain in a deficit? This is where the wonders of exercise come into play, or maybe you have a really active job that you work at so you need a little more fuel for the fire. Anyways, any time spent doing any type of exercise that is intentional, like at a gym or fitness center can help increase the caloric deficit range. But Kevin, I\"...