Browsing: Time

Calin Van Paris is a YJ editor and certified yoga teacher with more than 20 years of practice under her belt. She also likes to know what time it is.  

Slow down your reps and your muscles will grow – that’s the promise behind time under tension (TUT), one of the most talked-about training methods in bodybuilding. Ask any modern training guru and they’ll tell you that training with the “optimal” TUT causes powerful muscle breakdown, leading to sleeve-busting muscles. Most often, sets lasting 30–60…

The fitness industry has a remarkable ability to take something simple and futz with it until you need a spreadsheet. Apparently, just going to the gym wasn’t complicated enough. Now we have optimal meal timing, optimal sleep timing, optimal supplement timing, optimal carbohydrate timing and, of course, optimal training timing. Your biological clock must be…

Many people travel to Greece to spend time along its coast or on one of its myriad islands—a holiday destination that leaves salt on your skin. And there’s good reason to come for that alone, although it gives little sense of a country that is roughly 80 percent mountainous. Beyond the beach there are farming…