nutrition

L-Ornithine is an amino acid that we can make on our own, but we can also get it through our diet. Therefore, it’s not an essential amino acid, but you’ll likely want to seek out foods or supplements with ornithine if you want to increase your intake. - 💥 Some research has shown that combining...

For non-keto-adapted athletes, intra-workout carbohydrate consumption can boost performance, but there’s a few caveats. First, strength athletes are likely going to get much less benefit than endurance athletes; most bodybuilding-style workouts simply aren’t limited by carb availability...

The other day I was out with a group of people and a few of us started talking about fitness and nutrition. A couple others overheard us discussing various topics, gave us the most awkward look, and then walked away. It was as if I let out the stinkiest protein fart ever and they were downwind...

Bodybuilding Competition Preparation You Need a Coach It doesn’t matter how good you think you are, the sooner you accept you need a coach, the better it’ll be for you. A coach can help you with your diet, training, posing, and juice. An experienced coach can even tell you what’s going to...

We eat food to fuel physical activity and life. But in this day and age, it's no longer realistic to look at food solely as "fuel" for the body. Food is also part of most cultures and people's social life [1]. To put it in technical terms, we eat food for physiological and psychosocial reasons...

A common concern in the fitness field is that high protein intakes can impair kidney function. Unfortunately, this theory has been based off of studies or clinical work involving individuals with pre-existing kidney disease. If you do NOT have kidney disease, it is highly unlikely that a high...

NPB = MPS – MPBSo what does this equation mean? Net Protein Balance (skeletal muscle mass, for our purposes here) = Muscle Protein Synthesis – Muscle Protein Breakdown. Net protein balance (NPB) is defined as muscle protein synthesis (MPS) minus muscle protein breakdown (MPB), or NPB = MPS –...

L-Ornithine is an amino acid that is synthesized in the urea cycle from arginine. L-Ornithine can help reduce ammonia accumulation during fatiguing exercise which can help clear other metabolites that impact fatigue. Ornithine also seems to stack well with arginine and citrulline as these...

Many people jump to doing a lot of extra cardio when they want to lose fat. This post is a reminder that shows why more cardio is not always better! - Cardiovascular training has many benefits. But these benefits are primarily related to your general health and endurance performance [1, 2]. When...

A calorie surplus is obviously the main driver of a bulking phase, however, how large should this surplus be? A recent review by Slater et al. (2019) uncovered the energy costs associated with building muscle as well as the metabolic adaptations that occur during high calorie dieting plus lean...

Many often preach the importance of carbs before training. However, these sermons are often based off of needs for endurance athletes; resistance training causes much less glycogen depletion. Therefore, carbohydrate availability is rarely a limiting factor in performance during resistance...

Whey protein has been shown several times over to be the top choice for supporting muscle growth with training. However, many people have milk allergies that make consuming whey, well, uncomfortable. Luckily, egg protein has a similar leucine content and excellent digestibility ratings which...

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The macronutrient content of a meal can influence how many calories you burn throughout the day; this is referred to as, “diet-induced thermogenesis.” While this particular study is a little older, it is well-accepted that higher protein meals will induce greater energy expenditure than high...

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Intense training programs will significantly increase energy expenditure which means, if you want to maintain weight, you’ll need to eat about 15% over your maintenance calories. If your goal is to gain weight, this should be a minimum requirement! However, if you want to lose weight, eating at...

Diet (noun). The word that puts people off entertaining any thoughts about attempting to make nutritional changes to support an aspiring goal... (usually fat loss). The word may say diet(ing), but really you read it as: ‘the eternal struggle’... ‘something I need serious willpower for’...

This study compared a high fat (45% of calories) breakfast to a high carbohydrate (60% of calories) breakfast. Both groups underwent the same activity and diet throughout the rest of the day. It was found that the high fat breakfast led to significantly more fat burning throughout the day than...