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💊 How does improving your fitness impact TDEE?

Hey, You know how I made all those jokes about "messages from a sponsor", but it was just me slinging my own stuff? Well...in a weird turn of events, The Vitamin is actually sponsored now. If you click any of the links below, I get paid. Worst-case? You find something useful. Best-case? I can afford that Lamborghini. Fine. The Lego Lamborghini. Whatever. This week in the Vitamin: A reader asks how improving your physical fitness would impact your total daily energy expenditure. Read on for my...

Hey, I didn't send an email last week because, well, the truth is, I was totally burned out by the end of the Acceler8 launch. Between rewriting the sales page, writing sales-specific emails, making Instagram content, troubleshooting tech stuff, and staying on top of 1:1 check-ins, client programming, these weekly emails, and regular IG posts—Oh, and that whole parenting thing, it ended up being a bit more than I could handle. It got so bad that my resting heart rate increased by 10 bpm in...

Heyo, I'm back with another long(ish) form article this week––I know, I know, damn, Aa, two long-form articles back to back? Turns out that when you're only sleeping 5 hours per night, you can actually get way more done. Who knew? Before you dive in, I highly recommend reading this on the website. Not just because it’ll make for a better reading experience, but mainly because the new iOS 18 Mail update might prevent images from loading. And if you’ve read my stuff before, you know the images...

Heyo, I’m fairly confident you’ve heard people (including me) say it’s hard to out-train a bad diet. While that’s true, there’s another side to that phrase that isn't talked about enough: It's equally difficult to out-diet a sedentary lifestyle. In today's article, I want to answer that. Specifically, why physical activity is just as important as your diet when losing fat. You can read the full article here: -> It’s Very Hard to Out-Train a Bad Diet but It’s Equally Difficult to Out-Diet a...

Something I've struggled with for a while now is the realisation that my attention has become increasingly fragmented. This is new to me, and I don't know when it started happening, but it's become more pronounced over the last year or so. I remember a time when I could sit and focus on a task for a solid hour before needing to take a short break. These days, it's hard to get through thirty minutes before my mind starts rebelling. So what's the solution? I don't know. But something I've been...

Heyo, It's time for another instalment of the Vitamin––the weekly fitness newsletter that helps you be healthier, stronger, and leaner while navigating fitness bullshit. ..AADAM ANSWERS.. Is my protein powder dangerous? Q: I live in Arizona (land of guns and seed oil skepticism) and my weekly argument with my raw milk drinking, chicken-raising mother is that she wants me to start taking this for protein, when I currently take this, to which she has this to say: “Honestly, this is a terrible...

Hey, It's time for another instalment of the Vitamin––the weekly fitness newsletter that helps you be healthier, stronger, and leaner while navigating fitness bullshit. AADAM ANSWERSWeighted vests for fat loss? Q–I originally heard about a pro bodybuilder named Eric Salazar who used a weighted vest to get to his leanest body fat percentage for one of his competitions. He didn’t have to lower his calories & he didn’t feel as hungry because of it, even though he was sub 10%. Do you think this...

Heyo, Guess what? Kris is taking Amara to Spain today, which means I'll be alone for the first time in two years. It will be just me, myself, and the crushing realisation that I have no social life outside of being a dad. Do you hear that? Exactly. That's the sweet, sweet sound of silence. By the time you read this, I'll probably be deep into catching up on all the anime I've been adding to my "one-day-I’ll-watch-these-when-I’m-not-too-busy-raising-a-small-human" list. Then I might spend the...

I recently bought a walking pad, and – I'm going to hate myself for using this phrase – it's been a game-changer. I've had it for just under two weeks, and my average step count has more than doubled from ~5k/day to ~12k/day. Can you guess when I got the walking pad? Over the last few years, I've noticed myself becoming increasingly sedentary outside of the gym. While weight training is great, it won't make up for an otherwise sedentary lifestyle. And there's a ton of data at this point...

Hey, It's time for another instalment of the Vitamin––the weekly fitness newsletter that helps you be healthier, stronger, and leaner while navigating fitness bullshit. Is full-body training better for fat loss? As far as muscle and strength gain are concerned, the way you set up your training split doesn’t seem to matter all that much as long as you’re doing enough training volume each week. [1] But what about fat loss? Could a certain training split be better for shedding body fat? That’s...