Answering Any and All Fitness, Nutrition, and Exercise Questions
There is nothing worse than starting your workout on an empty tank. Exercising without nutrients available to replenish your body can cause you to become sluggish and unable to workout at high enough intensities to get results. A lack of available energy can cause your body to begin to take nutrients, especially protein, from your [...]
An Athlete’s Step by Step Guide to Meals that Maximize Performance Like to cook? I hope so — but even if you don’t, if you’re an athlete, you need to take an interest in what goes into your mouth. You can’t put low quality fuel into your body and expect to receive high quality performance [...]
You need to shed a few pounds fast. To get that beach body, “diet is more important than exercise,” Craig Ballantyne tells us. The only problem? Deprivation diets suck. So does “No.” And so do padlocks, or child locks, on the cupboard cabinets.
Maintaining or building muscle mass, during an exercise program, is dependent on protein consumption. You can work as hard as you want, but if protein is not part of your diet then you are sabotaging your results. Protein plays many roles in the body to keep it functioning properly, but for our purposes we will [...]
Why is Breakfast Important It’s true what you have heard about Breakfast, it is the most important meal of the day, and sadly, it continues to be the most skipped meal of the day. Believe it or not skipping breakfast can actually slow down the progress on your weight loss journey. While we sleep our [...]
Five Meals a Day When trying to slim down, it can be dangerous to think of meals in terms of only breakfast, lunch and dinner. Oddly enough, to be successful at losing weight we need to increase our meals each day to five. Kind of crazy, i know, but it will all make sense shortly. [...]
Carbo-loading, or glycogen loading, is a popular way to fuel for marathons and other endurance events. But does it work? Not always—and possibly not for women. If you’re fueling for an athletic event, put down the monster bowl of Pasta Carbonara and read this.
In today’s food culture of supersized everything, many of us have lost track of how much food is too much food. In your average store, there are colossal 32-ounce Monster Energy Drinks available for sale and massive Hungry Man TV dinners, some of which have a whopping 900+ calories per serving. Even at your neighborhood [...]
Pollan’s book “Food Rules” is here to help us read nutrition labels, spot sugar’s sneaky aliases and see why “FDA-approved” doesn’t automatically mean it’s good. Rule #19 – If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.
There are two approaches people take to improving their nutrition: they make a 180-degree turn and change everything, or they create one new habit at a time. If you’re in the second group, we’ll tell you three things to change first.
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