Losing weight isn't easy, but it is simple. Anyone looking to lose weight needs to ensure they’re in a caloric deficit — or, put simply, burning more calories than they take in each day. That is the only ... Continue Reading
The Best Types of Supplements for Performance, Weight Loss, and Health
Nowadays, a trip to your local health store can be overwhelming. Even if you know what to look for — and you may not — there are so many options. And every capsule and powder claims to give you healthier ... Continue Reading
How to Gain Muscle — A Guide to Eating for Mass
There are tons of diet and nutrition clichés we can throw at you: “Muscles are made in the kitchen, not the gym,” “you can’t out-exercise a bad diet,” and the age-old classic “you are what you eat." Here’s ... Continue Reading
9 Types of Diets — How They Work and Pros & Cons
Diet culture feels more ubiquitous than ever before. Gone are the days where most folks would grab a hard roll, slather on some butter, and get on with their lives. Now, there’s a seemingly endless number ... Continue Reading
10 Ways to Naturally Increase Your Appetite
Nobody wants to hear someone complain about having a hard time gaining weight. However, the fact remains: if your goal is to gain muscle and/or get stronger, you probably need to consume more calories than ... Continue Reading
How to Count Macros for Weight Loss, Muscle Gain, and Maintenance
Unless you’ve been consciously avoiding all fitness content for the past five years, you have probably heard someone talk about counting macros. You also possibly heard them mention how macro counting or ... Continue Reading
Could You Just Live On Meal Replacement Shakes?
There was a very popular meal replacement that was all the rage in 2013 — Soylent, we're talking about Soylent — whose inventor lived on it for one month straight and said he felt superb. Better skin, ... Continue Reading
Layne Norton Discusses His Exact Supplement Routine and Macronutrient Split
Dr. Layne Norton is a titan in the field of nutrition, a veritable behemoth of knowledge who holds a PhD in Nutritional Science along with seven bodybuilding titles and six powerlifting titles — for a ... Continue Reading
5 Supplements That Might Help With Muscle Soreness
Sore muscles suck. Your WODs are modified, you scale back only to train movements that don’t cause you discomfort, but it’s still not the same as before. Sticking to your physical therapist’s ... Continue Reading
A Vegan Bodybuilder and Powerlifter Talk Eating for Strength and Muscle
Your body doesn’t exactly run on meat and plants and dairy. It runs on macronutrients and micronutrients (and, OK, enzymes and phytonutrients and other stuff) and there are no essential nutrients you can’t ... Continue Reading
Intermittent Fasting For Bodybuilders: Should You Do It?
You’ve probably heard of intermittent fasting before, and you might even know someone who’s doing it. The idea is simple: you only eat within a certain time window each day, and the fat supposedly just ... Continue Reading
7 Proven Strategies to Lose 2 Pounds Per Week
The amount of weight you can safely lose each week depends on many factors, ranging from your weight and body fat percentage to how much sleep you get per night and your activity levels. (Genetics, height, ... Continue Reading
25-Time World Record Holder Stefi Cohen Talks Eating Like an Athlete
Twenty-five all-time world records. Twenty-five. Dr. Stefi Cohen — she’s also a physical therapist — is one of the great athletes of our time. We know that sounds hyperbolic, but did we mention ... Continue Reading
Jujimufu Doesn’t Count Calories — Everything You Want to Know About His Diet
Jon Call, better known as Jujimufu, is a very unusual guy. He's a man who does not take accept dogma of any kind, an athlete who experiments relentlessly with how far he can push his body's boundaries, and ... Continue Reading
14 CrossFit Games Women Reveal Their Daily Macros
While you can’t paint all elite CrossFit women with the same dietary brush, I thought I’d investigate to find out how similar, or different, their diets really are. BarBend spoke with 14 female athletes ... Continue Reading
After MS Diagnosis, Alex Ortiz Turned His Life Around Through Fitness
One morning in March 2018, Alex Ortiz woke up and couldn’t move his body. “I was completely paralyzed on the left side of my body,” said Ortiz, now 37. Stubborn, he didn’t go to the doctor for five ... Continue Reading
Elite Powerlifter Jen Thompson Explains Her Diet
The name Jen Thompson has become synonymous with a strong bench press. Right now it's her squat that graces the top of the IPF’s records page and this -132lb athlete is very talented at all of the big ... Continue Reading
Meet Heather Pivoras and the CrossFit Coach Who Helped Transform her Life
When Heather Pivoras arrived at CrossFit Murray in Kentucky seven years ago, she was down and out. “I was in an abusive relationship. My self-esteem was at an all-time low. I had a hard time looking in ... Continue Reading
Why Protein Isn’t Created Equal (And How to Find the Best Sources for Your Needs)
Eat your bodyweight in grams of protein per day. For athletes, that’s often the recommendation. So, if you’re 150 lb., you should eat 150 grams of protein each day. Turns out, it’s not quite that ... Continue Reading
Everything You Want to Know About Katrin Davidsdottir’s Diet
Only three people in history have repeated as the Fittest Woman on Earth™ and Katrin Davidsdottir is one of them. She only started CrossFit in 2011, but she had ten years of gymnastics training under ... Continue Reading
Joe Rogan Tried the Carnivore Diet and Looks Pretty Good?
At any given time, Joe Rogan's podcast is pretty much guaranteed to be in the top five most popular on iTunes, and the man has millions of listeners hanging on his every word about fitness and nutrition. ... Continue Reading
We Interviewed Mat Fraser to Learn Everything About His Diet
We don’t really track anything specifically, I don’t really adhere to any specific diet like Paleo or keto or anything like that. We have a ballpark number in terms of what we’re striving for with ... Continue Reading
The Insider’s Guide to Tia-Clair Toomey’s CrossFit Diet
On an average workout day, Tia-Clair Toomey eats: 140 to 150 grams of protein 230 to 250 grams of carbohydrates 65 to 70 grams of fat For a total of 2,200 to 2,500 calories a day. But what ... Continue Reading
The Stoltman Brothers Explain Their Unusual Strongman Diet
Eight thousand calories a day, diarrhea medication, saltwater, and CBD are just part of the unusual dietary regimen of two of the World’s Strongest Man athletes Luke and Tom Stoltman. (The ... Continue Reading