A 1-minute, Monday-Friday email, to help busy professionals move more, eat better, and think clearer.
Mano Minute (1/14): Magnesium for Better Sleep π΄
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Mano Minute (1/14): Magnesium for Better Sleep π΄ Magnesium is one of the most underrated tools for sleep. At a basic level, magnesium helps regulate the nervous system. It supports relaxation and helps the body shift out of a stressed state. Dr. Matthew Walker often talks about how sleep requires the brain to slow down. Magnesium supports that process by calming neural activity. Not all forms are the same. A common dosage range is 200 to 400 milligrams taken about an hour before bed. It is not a knockout pill. BONUS TIP: |
Mano Minute
A 1-minute, Monday-Friday email, to help busy professionals move more, eat better, and think clearer.
Mano Minute (3/12): Why you get sore after a workout (and what it actually means) πͺ Soreness gets a bad reputation. People either chase it like a trophy or fear it like an injury. Most of the time, neither response is quite right. Here is what is happening. When you lift weights, you create tiny tears in your muscle fibers. These are called microtears. That feeling of soreness you get 24 to 48 hours after a workout? That is your body reacting to those tears. But here is the important part....
Mano Minute (3/11): Free weights vs. machines. Here is my honest take ποΈ There is a gym snobbery I want to address. A lot of people treat machines like they are for beginners. Like real lifters only use free weights. Planet Fitness gets mocked constantly because it is mostly machines. I disagree with this entirely. Machines are excellent. Not just for beginners, but for everyone. Here is why. Machines protect your form. They guide your movement through a fixed range of motion, which means you...
Mano Minute (3/10): Eating carbs without the guilt π Carbs have had a rough decade. Low carb diets. No carb diets. Keto. Everyone treating bread like it is poison. Here is my take. Carbs are not the problem. The type of carbs is the problem. There are carbs that leave you feeling guilty, foggy, and hungry an hour later. Ultra processed snacks, white bread, sugary drinks, fast food. These spike your blood sugar fast and crash it just as fast. Your body does not get much from them. And you are...