Podcasts

Podcast EP1: Weight Rebound – Gaining weight after losing it?

In the first episode of INFS podcast, Dr. Akshay Alawani, Head Faculty at INFS and Yash Kaushik, Faculty at INFS, discuss the most common problem of weight rebound and their coaching experiences with respect to that.

Both faculty give their views on the misconceptions about ‘metabolic damage’ and lack of self-evaluation when it comes to dieting and losing body fat.…

Guest Article, INFS Health Series

What crash diets do to your body ?

Author: Siddharth Lall, Nutrition consultant at SQUATS,INFS alumni

Abstract Article

Key Points:

    • Any caloric restricted diet leads to metabolic changes that favor conservation of body weight and prevention of further weight loss.
    • Crash dieting is accompanied by alterations in the hormones that regulate appetite, hunger and satiety such as leptin, thyroid, ghrelin, sex hormones etc.
Nutrition

Intermittent Fasting – Yay or Nay?

Author : Anushree Kailash , INFS scholar 

Edited by : Subia Khan , Corporate consultant @ SQUATS 

Let’s understand what Intermittent Fasting is:

Intermittent fasting is not a type of diet but a diet strategy or eating pattern which times the total daily food intake into a specific number of contiguous hours to produce an extended fasting phase; as long as 24 hours.

Fitness

A quality Sleep: Under-rated and Un-explored vertical of fitness goals

Most of the people train hard at gym, stick to their nutrition plans, stay pretty active for the day yet fail to see results at the pace it should be. Why?.

Because a sound and timed sleep is highly under-rated by a majority of us, especially the young population, adolescents, working professionals etc. 

Careers in Fitness

Story of A Nutrition consultant who was once an INFS scholar

Author : Matin Shaikh , INFS Alumni ,Ex INFS Faculty

Those were the times JC used to pick deserving people up from the SQUATS FB group and sponsor them for SQUATS academy (now INFS) courses. I feel really lucky to have been picked up by him and directly put into the Pilot Expert batch along with many other deserving candidates.