Today, we’re completing our biohacking blog series with a deep dive into how to biohack your exercise for fast fat loss, muscle gain, and quicker recovery after your workouts. Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate exerciser or experienced in health and fitness, there are plenty of tips and tricks in this blog to help you get more from your workouts, and improve your health.

Research shows around 60% to 85% of people worldwide now have a sedentary lifestyle, and this lack of movement is a leading cause of diseases like cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, and osteoporosis. Exercise is a vital way to lose excess weight, prevent metabolic disease, improve mental health, as well as reducing all-cause mortality. In this blog, you’ll learn the benefits of exercise, the best type of exercise for weight loss, muscle building, metabolism and longevity, and the best exercises to include in your workouts. You’ll understand how to set an exercise goal to help you feel more motivated, so you can get fitter quicker.

Research shows those who engage in moderate exercise for at least 20 minutes, three times per week are likely to experience better sleep quality and quantity than those who are more sedentary. Whilst cardio workouts were long thought to be the best type of exercise to promote good quality sleep, recent research suggests strength training is actually more beneficial. As well as exercising, avoiding alcohol at least 4 hours before bed and stopping caffeine 6 to 9 hours before sleeping can help improve sleep. In this blog, you’ll learn how to biohack your sleep with exercise, changing your alcohol and coffee habits, as well as learning the best relaxation exercises for sleep.

Getting good quality sleep is the foundation of your wellbeing. When you sleep, your body heals damaged tissue, consolidates new experiences and creates memories, and sends out a pulse of growth hormone to help you get stronger after your last workout. Many of us experience poor sleep due to disrupted circadian rhythms, too much blue light at night, not enough sunlight at the right time of day, and a lack of key nutrients that support sleep. In this blog, you’ll learn how to biohack your sleep to improve the quality and quantity of your sleep; You’ll understand how to hack your light and darkness, temperature, food and supplements to supercharge your sleep and improve every other part of your health in the process.

Cortisol is known as the ‘stress hormone’, and is released when we perceive a threat. Chronic stress however, can lead to high cortisol levels, resulting in high blood pressure, sleep issues, food cravings, weight gain, and disrupted hormones. Low cortisol levels caused by burnout are also a serious issue. In this blog, you’ll learn how to biohack your cortisol, balance your circadian rhythms, reduce stress, and build your resilience with the use of adaptogens, breathwork, nutrition and more.

Heat exposure is one of the most popular biohacking protocols to increase metabolism, extend lifespan, and enhance exercise recovery. Heat exposure or ‘heat stress’ can be done in many different ways, including exercise, hot tubs and sauna. Research shows the benefits of regular sauna use include improving cardiovascular health, weight loss, stress reduction and detoxification. In this blog, you’ll learn all about the benefits of heat exposure, and the specific practices to help you get the most from this biohacking protocol.