It may sound ridiculous but your exercise routine may be causing you to store fat rather than lose fat. Next time you visit the gym take a look at the guy that’s always on the same cross trainer for what seems like hours at a time and yet he never seems to change his body shape.Why is that? It is most probably due to the amount of stress that person is under and the excessive amounts of cortisol within their body. Your body produces cortisol in response to stress, physical, mental or emotional. This can include extremely low calorie diets, intense training, high volume training, lack of quality sleep as well as common daily stresses such as job pressures, or being caught in a traffic jam.What does cortisol do? Cortisol is part of the fight or flight response. Faced with a “life or death” situation, cortisol increases the flow of glucose (as well as protein and fat) out of your tissues and into the bloodstream in order to increase energy and physical readiness to handle the stressful situation or threat.Therefore, the body is forced to breakdown muscle and fat to be converted to sugar. This may sound good […]

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