Twelve ways to improve your sleep
To feel and perform your best, you don’t just need enough sleep, you need enough quality sleep. Sleep is important. It allows your body...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 29, 20193 min read
Power of Rational Thinking
There is a widely accepted fallacy that rational, logical, conscious thinking has no power over unconscious processes or mechanisms, and...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 28, 20193 min read
How can we reduce stress?
The physiology of stress and relaxation So, why do we want to build in daily rest time? Well, to understand this, we have to understand...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 26, 20193 min read
Can you gain weight from eating too little?
Thermodynamics don’t lie! Thermodynamics is a way to express how energy is used and changed. Put simply, we take in energy in the form of...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 22, 20192 min read
False Beliefs Of Ourselves
Inferiority and superiority are reverse sides of the coin. The cure lies in realizing that the coin itself is spurious. We are not...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 17, 20192 min read
Why weighing yourself daily could be a great thing towards your fat loss goals
Weighing daily acts a bit like a self-regulator. Many people may find that not weighing puts weight gain “out of sight, out of mind,” and...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 16, 20192 min read
How sustainable is your diet?
When it comes to fat loss the biggest thing is how sustainable your approach is and how are you able to adhere to the process. If you...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 15, 20192 min read
Will lifting weights as a female make them muscular?
Most of my clients are females, in our first meeting 80% of them tell me they want to lose fat and get toned, but they don't want to get...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 8, 20199 min read
BCAAs
Whey protein naturally contains branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs), but people also take BCAAs separately to build muscle or, if they eat...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 7, 201913 min read
What is in your protein powder?
If you enjoy pure, unflavored whey protein, then by all means, keep doing your thing. However, companies usually add ingredients to give...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 6, 20196 min read
Casein protein
Casein accounts for 80% of the protein in cow’s milk (compared to 30% in human milk, 23% in goat’s milk, and 15% in the milk of sheep and...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 5, 20197 min read
Sourcing a whey protein
Does organic or grass-fed matter? First, let’s deal with that organic certification you might see on a whey protein powder. It means that...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 4, 20194 min read
Whey protein
Depending on the stage of breast milk production, the protein in human milk is 80% to 50% whey. By contrast, the protein in cow’s milk is...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 2, 20197 min read
Advantages and disadvantages of protein powder?
The global protein supplement market has a current value of $14 billion, and it is expected to reach $21.5 billion by 2025. Clearly, many...
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Helder Barroso
Sep 1, 20193 min read
How much protein do you need?
As with most things in nutrition, there’s no simple answer. Your optimal daily protein intake depends on various factors, notably your...
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Helder Barroso
Aug 31, 20195 min read
What is the best protein powder?
I get asked from clients pretty much weekly about which protein is the best to buy. If you walk into any supplement store, or even your...
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Helder Barroso
Aug 22, 20193 min read
Plant Based Diet
I am kind of fed up with the amount of crap I see on social media, so many claim things that just aren't real, for the sake of selling...
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Helder Barroso
Aug 21, 20193 min read
Fibre and it's importance
Many studies show that daily consumption of high fibre diets reduces the risk of developing kidney stones, inflammatory disease, colon...
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Helder Barroso
Aug 20, 20193 min read
The dreaded scale
I have a saying " If you guessing you are messing". This applies to anything in life but in the context of my job as coach this is 100%...
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Helder Barroso
Aug 19, 20192 min read
Having a better relationship with food
Do you have a “complicated” relationship with food? If you find yourself having unwanted food experiences, such as intense food cravings,...
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