Shahir's Blog

 Sleep is one of the greatest forms of recovery for both the body and mind. An average human being needs a minimum of 8 hours of sleep to function at their best. Although research suggests that some people might need less or more than 8 hours of sleep a night, getting close to 8 hours should be a goal for everyone. The benefits of getting enough sleep can be seen in how well we perform during the day. Whether it is physical performance or mental performance, getting enough sleep will have a big impact on it. 

 Lifting weights and having a proper nutrition plan is the way to go about changing your body. Lifting weights 4-6 days a week with a focus on pushing yourself to failure is a great way to start changing your body. However, changing your body is not only done with lifting weights and working out. Having a proper nutrition plan that includes all the nutrients your body needs plays a massive part in getting you the results. Finding a balanced nutrition plan that is healthy and enjoyable so you can stick with it in the long run is very crucial. Also, balancing your workouts and daily activities with how much you consume plays a big role in getting the results you want. 

 Tracking your calorie intake and expenditure could be very confusing and frustrating if we do not understand the basics of it. To start off, in order to track our calorie intake and expenditure, we need to have a goal that we are trying to achieve. Whether our goal is adding muscle or losing weight, we need a proper plan to track our calorie intake and expenditure. The best way to track how many calories we eat and how many calories we burn is to use different technologies to measure each of them. When it comes to tracking how much we consume, having a food scale that gives us the nutritional facts label could be very useful. On the other hand, to measure our calorie expenditure, we can use devices such as the Apple Watch or Whoop Fitness Tracker. These devices will give us close to an accurate number of calories we have burned. These devices are not 100% accurate, however, they will give you an idea of how much you should be consuming and burning in a day.