Consuming fruit during your prep should be the exception, not the rule. Because fructose has a natural preference to restore liver glycogen before it can contribute to muscle glycogen, we use it [...]
The ongoing debate as to whether smoking weed will help or hurt your bodybuilding goals remains a heated one, with arguments on both sides of the topic. Here are the most commonly discussed [...]
Q: Is it better to consume high-glycemic carbs before or after a workout? It’s difficult to say if one is better than another because they both offer their own benefits. Carbs pre-workout: Pros… [...]
New Zealand Whey is considered by many to be the top of the line, best protein powder you can buy. The main reasons for this are in how it is processed, which ultimately affects the quality and [...]
Sweating is our body’s built-in way of cooling itself off when we start to get too hot. It’s a completely normal and healthy physiological process that works to regulate our body temperature and [...]
If I’ve ever trained you, chances are at some point I’ve said something about stretching in some capacity… whether it’s ‘stretch position movements’, ‘stretch-and-squeeze reps’, ‘don’t forget to [...]
When you make health and fitness a big part of your life, you naturally want to pass along some of those values onto your child. Most of us don’t however, want to put our own children on a diet [...]
Once you’ve peaked hundreds of competitors for competitions, you start to notice familiar trends or patterns. You can even get to the point where you’re able to reasonably predict an anticipated [...]
The main difference between a personal trainer and a contest prep coach is that one trains you in a gym and the other helps to manage every possible aspect of your life that could potentially be [...]
Normally, if anyone were to suggest that a natural herbal supplement worked just as effectively (or even better) than a pharmaceutical drug designed to do the same thing, I’d assume it was some [...]
