Like it or not, there are going to be days where you just don\u2019t feel \u200bit.\u200b Roughly 20 minutes into my workout, I called it a day. Before stepping out, though, I tapped him on the shoulder.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow\u2019s your training going?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust getting in what I can,\u201d he said. As he was gathering himself, he continued, \u201cLet me tell you, I don\u2019t enjoy it as much, but I do it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a matter of seconds there I was, instead of hopping into my car and heading home I decided to add in some extra credit work. Although the image of popping a cold one with the game on was far more tempting than having to hoist up a barbell again, I\u2019m glad I told my inner dialogue to shut up and get it done.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the whole point: get it done.<\/p>\n
Q:\u200b \u200bMy weight keeps fluctuating. Every time I feel like I\u2019m getting on track, the scale tells me otherwise. It\u2019s frustrating and discouraging.<\/p>\n A:\u200b<\/strong> Instinctively, we recognize that to get from point A to point B it\u2019s not going to be a straight line. Deep down we know that\u2019s not how it works. There\u2019s an ebb and flow. Yet, when we see it happening like that before our very own eyes we throw a fit. While the scale is a useful tool, many of us get bogged down by it.<\/p>\n Relax.<\/p>\n It\u2019s only one metric, and its importance pales in comparison to the value of non-scale victories. If your clothes are fitting better, you\u2019re looking visibly leaner, and you\u2019re getting stronger, that\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n Q:\u200b \u200bBeyond a protein supplement and maybe a multivitamin, what other supplements do you recommend?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong>\u200b The one supplement I think we should all be paying attention to is magnesium because just about everyone is deficient. And it\u2019s hard to get it through your diet. Even a reasonably healthy one. It plays a vital role in nerve and muscle function, and there\u2019s also strong evidence showing that low levels has an impact on blood pressure, carbohydrate metabolism, and sleep. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s going to have a miraculous effect, but it\u2019s worth the effort to look into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like it or not, there are going to be days where you just don\u2019t feel…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":308649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}