Stronger Bodies, Smarter Meals
Business trips and holidays don’t have to erase six weeks of progress. The trick is accepting the constraints—odd schedules, tiny hotel gyms, and microwaves instead of ovens—and engineering a plan that preserves your strongest signals: progressive tension on the big patterns, predictable protein at every meal, and behaviors that tame jet lag so you can…
If you lift weights while working nights or rotating shifts, you’re juggling two stressors: training stress (which is productive) and circadian stress (which isn’t). The fix isn’t to “power through” with more caffeine. It’s to place training when your body can actually express force, engineer meals that keep glucose steady without inducing a 3 a.m….
If your fasting glucose or A1c has drifted upward, you don’t need a crash diet or punishing cardio block. You need steady mechanical inputs that improve insulin sensitivity: brief, consistent resistance training that adds or preserves muscle, walking that mops up post-meal glucose, and meals built around fiber and protein with smart carbohydrate timing. Think…