When preparing your own meals from home, figuring out the nutritional content is a breeze. You know precisely which foods you’re eating and how much, along with access to nutrition labels, food scales, measuring cups and anything else you need…
Breakfast… The nutritional cornerstone of a healthy fitness diet – or simply an optional morning meal? For years conventional wisdom has told us that breakfast is the “most important meal of the day”. It’s claimed to boost metabolism, kick start…
Green tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. Along with delivering a wide variety of overall health benefits, green tea (both in the form of actual tea and as a supplement) is also promoted for…
If you want to build muscle, lose fat and carve out a great physique, you need to stay consistent with your workouts, manage your recovery and track your macros each day. … or do you? Proper training is obviously a…
Effective muscle building nutrition can be made complicated. Very complicated. We can bounce around from article to article and video to video getting every expert’s opinion on what the best muscle building foods are… How to precisely configure our macronutrient…
A few weeks ago I wrote a post explaining how to transition from cutting to bulking for those who had just finished up a fat loss phase and were ready to start gaining more overall mass. I received quite a few questions in response…
Is going from cutting to bulking really that complicated, or even necessary? Say you just finished up your cutting phase. You’ve dropped the excess fat and have reached your desired level of leanness. Now, it’s time to shift into muscle…
Consistently managing your nutrition plan during the regular year requires enough focus as is, but during the holidays it can be particularly challenging. What’s the best way to stay on track with your fitness program despite all the delicious high…
“Mainstream” fitness advice is full of nonsense and misleading information. Despite clear ongoing advancements in the field of nutritional science, the majority of fat loss hopefuls out there continue to repeat the same basic mistakes over and over again. Mistakes that…
It’s a diet trend that just won’t go away. Back in the 1980’s and 90’s, everyone was pointing the finger at dietary fats as the “bad stuff” that everyone should avoid to stay lean and healthy. From the late 90’s…