There are as many opinions about diets out there as there are people who eat food. Despite what you may hear on your Instagram feed, there is no one-size-fits-all way to approach nutrition. Still, there ... Continue Reading
20 High-Fiber Foods to Support Digestion
When you’re looking to adjust your diet for increasing strength and promoting muscle growth, the main macronutrients — protein, carbohydrate, and fat — likely consume the bulk of your attention. And ... Continue Reading
What Happens if You Don’t Eat Vegetables?
In all likelihood, you spent your childhood being told — in no uncertain terms — to eat your broccoli and spinach. Whether you grew up hating them or just don’t feel like you have enough time to work them ... Continue Reading
The Best Pre-Workout Ingredients for Focus
When it comes to crushing your workouts, it takes a balance of energy, intention, determination, and focus to make it happen. For many, focus can be difficult to tap into and maintain throughout ... Continue Reading
The Best Natural Pre-Workout Ingredients to Look for and What to Avoid
Your weightlifting shoes are in your bag and you’re crossing your fingers that nobody will be doing biceps curls in the squat rack when you get to the gym. You’re amped up and ready to go — and you want to ... Continue Reading
6 Tips for How to Eat Healthy While Traveling to Maintain Your Fitness Goals
When you’re working towards a fitness goal, traveling can throw a wrench into your progress and habit of eating healthy. You might have less control over what food you have access to and less time to ... Continue Reading
The Bodybuilder’s Guide to Transitioning From a Cut to a Bulk
Bodybuilding is cyclical. Physique pros embody this practice with defined “off-seasons,” where they devote months of dedicated time to packing on as much mass as possible before shredding down for big ... Continue Reading
8 Scientifically Backed Benefits of Greens Powder for Strength Athletes
You’ve likely heard since you were a child to eat your fruits and vegetables — and for good reason. There are tons of benefits to getting enough vitamins and nutrients in your diet every day. But, in the ... Continue Reading
8 Thanksgiving Week Nutrition Tips to Maintain Any Fitness Goals
It’s that time of year again — the holiday season. The holidays can be stressful for many reasons, perhaps especially for those with fitness goals. You’re eating differently, maybe traveling, and totally ... Continue Reading
How to Improve Your Gut Health — Evidence-Based Guidance for a Strong Stomach
In the last decade or so, tens of thousands of gut microbiome research articles have been published. From digestion and metabolism to immune defense and even brain activity, gut microbes play important (if ... Continue Reading
What Does a Healthy Thanksgiving Plate Look Like?
As the weather gets cooler and holidays come around, family feasts might well become more common in your life. If your family does Thanksgiving together, you might find yourself traveling across the ... Continue Reading
What to Look for in a Pre-Mixed Pre-Workout
Athletes, powerlifters, bodybuilders, and other gym-goers who are serious about getting results know that sipping a top-notch pre-workout before exercising can help them run faster, lift longer, and ... Continue Reading
Dirty Bulking Explained — Drawbacks, Benefits, and What You Should Know
Nutritional trends rise and fall in the fitness industry. It’s easy to get caught up in the current or enamored with the hype of a dietary trend — even if said idea doesn’t stand up to scientific ... Continue Reading
5 Easy-to-Cook and High-Protein Week Night Recipes for Busy Strength Athletes
The best way to hit your macros might be to engage in an hour or two of food prep on Sunday, but let's be honest — this doesn’t always happen. As much as we all hope for a break on the weekend, it may be ... Continue Reading
8 Natural Fat Burners
Let’s get one thing straight: Foods and supplements that get labeled as “fat burners” are not magic and will not make a significant change without you making changes to your diet and lifestyle. ... Continue Reading
7 Benefits of Protein for Health and Performance
When you were little, your parents may have tried to get you to eat your vegetables by telling you that you need them to grow up big and strong. While certainly true (though not always the most persuasive ... Continue Reading
How Using Creatine Can Benefit Your Brain
Is there such a thing as a supplement that's too good to be true? Creatine monohydrate is one of the most popular and effective sport supplements around, but most of the marketing is aimed at its ... Continue Reading
The Warrior Diet Explained, Plus Its Benefits & Drawbacks
“It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war” is a Chinese proverb about the merits of overpreparing. As a fitness enthusiast, that kind of ethos can help you reach your goals a little ... Continue Reading
10 of the Best “Unhealthy” Foods for Athletic Performance
The fitness industry is prone to promoting simplified, two-sided arguments to extraordinarily complex topics. For example, foods are often labeled “healthy” or “unhealthy,” with little nuance added along ... Continue Reading
The Big Article About Everything Antioxidants
Strength athletes often try to optimize their nutrition to make the best gains possible in training. It makes sense to try to learn as much as possible about nutritional strategies to bring out your best ... Continue Reading
What the Science Says About the Carnivore Diet for Strength Athletes
If you've ever found yourself scrolling through social media (while resting between sets or otherwise), you've probably run across some extreme and divisive opinions about nutrition. After all, hot takes ... Continue Reading
How to Structure Your Strength Training if You’re on a Diet
You’ve got your strength training program ready to go. It might be strongman, weightlifting, or even powerbuilding. You’re getting stronger and building your endurance, but something’s missing. Maybe ... Continue Reading
8 Scientifically-Backed Benefits of MCT Oil – Good for Keto?
If you spend much time in the wide world of keto, paleo, or other niche diet circles, there’s a decent chance you’ve seen people pouring spoonfuls of clear oil into their coffees, shakes, and salad ... Continue Reading
Can You Eat Intuitively as a Bodybuilder?
When people think of nutrition for bodybuilders, they often imagine cardboard-tasting protein shakes, calorie counting, and a whole lot of plain chicken and rice. But restricting what you eat (and when) ... Continue Reading