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🍏 Don’t Trust Heart Rate Monitors at the Gym

NEWSLETTER - ISSUE #13

SEPT 24, 2023

issue # 13

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Weekly Wellness Wisdom

Welcome to the Naked Newsletter, your source for wellness and wisdom.

In this edition, we'll head to Oktoberfest to lift a few lagers, figure out how to get the smell out of gym clothes, discuss a golden rule for improving barbell pulling movements, and look at improving your health with bone broth."

TOP 3 MUST READS OF THE WEEK

How to Clean Post-Gym Activewear

If you're a fitness fanatic like us, you probably wash your gym clothes more often than anything else.

Despite using top-shelf detergents, remnants of your last cardio session can still linger on your activewear long after washing.

Before you hop on Amazon for a bottle of specialized products, read this step-by-step guide and see which ingredients are in your kitchen.

Improve Your Mental Health in the Forest

Forest bathing is a trending holistic practice that first gained attention in Japan in 1982. Often referred to as "forest therapy," it pumps the brakes on stress by reducing cortisol and can help improve mental health.

If you haven't tried forest therapy, this weekend, unplug, venture into the woods, and let the forest work its magic.

This Brew is for Gut Health

Beer drinkers of the world … nutrition science is finally on your side! Research from the Department of Microecology in China conducted a study about the effects of beer and the gut microbiome in the body.

The research uncovered that polyphenols in the malt and hops of beer are also important active compounds that interact with the gut microbiome.

Belly up to the bar to find out how beer can improve your gut health.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

How to Use Your Smartwatch to Stay Fit

There's always something a little suspicious about the heart rate readings on treadmills and other cardio equipment at gyms. The "fat-burning zone" numbers always feel askew, but now we know why.

A 2023 study from Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardio Research found that individual exercise monitors (e.g., smartwatches, heart rate straps) are more effective at tracking heart rate and fat-burning zones. Personal fitness devices are synced with your body, so the reading is more accurate.

Boost Your Performance With Prehab Exercises

Prehab exercises often linger as intentions, but by time constraints on busy days at the gym, turn them into afterthoughts. This oversight can hinder optimizing muscle activation during workouts.

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research reported that movements like split squats engage a whopping 84% of your quadriceps' power.

If you want to get the most out of your workouts, try adding these prehab exercises to your routine..

Golden Rule of the Gym #2: Keep the Bar Close

Any coach or trainer worth their salt will preach to their athletes about "keeping the bar close." It helps with efficiently moving heavy loads in movements like rows, deadlifts, and Olympic lifts.

Learn how this weight room golden rule can help improve your pulling technique and PR.

Improve Your Health With Bone Broth

The bone broth diet is trending on the internet and social media, with more views than a pop star falling off a stage.

Sipping on bone broth isn't some flashy new fad; it's been warming souls worldwide for centuries.

Learn more about what they are, the pros and cons of the diet, and more in this bone broth guide. And if you have not tried it yet, Naked Bone Broth is only one ingredient. Bon Appétit!

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Do BCAAs Break Intermittent Fasting?

Thinking about upping your wellness game with intermittent fasting? There are strict limitations on what's allowed to be consumed during the fasting window.

So, can still sip on your favorite BCAAs mid-workout? Nutrition coach Maya Valenti explains the pros and cons of drinking BCAAs while fasting and if it's a "game-changer" or a "rule-breaker." Note: Just 2 days left to get our new Cherry Lime BCAAs at 20% off with code CHERRYLIME20.

You're Strong, but Are You Kellner Strong?

Oktoberfest is famous for kellners and kellnerins carrying stacked beer-filled steins around bustling pubs with superhuman strength. Can you guess how much lager she's carrying?