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Zone 2 Training and Mitochondrial Base Building: The Counterintuitive Case for Going Slower to Get Faster, Leaner, and More Metabolically Resilient

March 31, 20269 min

Training at the intensity where you can still hold a conversation — zone 2 on a five-zone model — produces the specific mitochondrial adaptations that neither easy recovery work nor high-intensity intervals can replicate.

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Nutrition Timing

Protein Distribution and the Muscle Protein Synthesis Window: Why Total Daily Intake Matters Less Than Most People Think and Meal Distribution Matters More

March 30, 20268 min

Muscle protein synthesis is not a twenty-four-hour averaged response to total daily protein — it is a pulsatile process triggered by discrete leucine threshold crossings at individual meals, with a refractory period between pulses.

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Recovery Tracking

HRV-Guided Training: Using Morning Heart Rate Variability to Make Daily Decisions About Intensity, Volume, and Recovery That Your Subjective Feelings Cannot Reliably Inform

March 29, 20268 min

Heart rate variability measured upon waking provides an objective window into autonomic nervous system recovery status that subjective feelings of readiness consistently fail to predict accurately.

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