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IT’S GAME DAY!!! Home Opener is Tonight vs Chilliwack Chiefs at 7:00PM See you at the Lodge (George Preston Rec Centre)

Weekend Preview: Home and Home matchup sets the stage for Battle of Highway 1. http://ow.ly/5Ee730fbH7i

Do you know what is currently being touted as the gold standard for measuring body fat? Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). What even is that? Well, check ...out our teammate, Guy, having his scan done at this year’s Okanagan Strength & Conditioning Conference to find out. PS: Someone needs to give this Guy a sandwich his results, 149lbs and 9.7% body fat. (Don’t worry, we took him out for a buffet dinner afterwards.)

TRADE: Langley goaltender Bo Didur to Salmon Arm for defenseman Carter Stephenson

Are you interested in becoming more involved with the Langley Rivermen? We are currently looking for additional billet families for the 2017/18 season. Click ...the link below to find out more: http://www.langleyrivermen.com/billets-volunteers See more

From the body composition side, there is nothing magical about Orange Theory or any other high intensity based interval system. What’s magic is people like it ...and they go. #adherence The analysis combined 31 studies involving a total of 873 participantsBy pooling the data, we found no evidence to support the superiority of either High Intensity Interval Training/Sprint Interval Training or Moderate Intensity Continuous Training for body fat reduction. Indeed, when interval training protocols were matched for energy expenditure/workload, similar benefits were observed. While the physiological nature of HIIT and SIT is different, there were no differences between the effect of HIIT or SIT on body composition outcomes. -Keating et al 2017 As fitness professionals we would be wise NOT to push what we like on others, especially in the realm of cardio. Instead find out what your clients like and then maneuver volumes to match their goals and fit in with other aspects of their training and their life. Also, if you want to put on muscle mass you are going to have to lift and overload the musculoskeletal system, only very very newbie humans can gain muscle mass on HIIT type protocols. If I only got to pick ONE thing on the exercise side for a weight-loss client it would be to lift 3 or 4 days a week. If I got a second thing it would be to increase baseline movement to more than 10,000 steps a day. (One could make a strong argument for this being number 1) If I got a third thing it might be some kind of cardio, if they liked and felt they needed it. The paper by Keating et al. is very well written and thorough, I recommend reading it. Some people have read this paper and blasted out the idea that exercise is not important for weight loss given the small effect size of both of interval and steady state modalities alone on body composition. This is true, exercise is a very small part of the TDEE bucket and you are not likely to lose an appreciable amount of weight when going from sedentary to moderately active (what you should be doing anyways). But, this change will still likely result in positive changes in objective markers of health even without any significant weight loss and this is not to say that exercise is not absolutely critical for your brain, appetite regulation, maintaining muscle mass through the life course, and preventing weight re-gain. Oh and EPOC doesn’t seem to be a magical skinny jean fairy either. Overall, it appears that EPOC is unlikely to account for any apparent greater fat loss potential with HIIT/SIT.