Tag: Parent Topic: Nutrition
What Does Creatine Do? Here’s How the Mass-Boosting Supplement Actually Works
If you’re hitting the gym regularly, you likely want to become a better athlete — faster, stronger, more muscular, and even sharper mentally. Yes, you’ve got to eat, train, and sleep right. But the darling of everyone’s supplement stack helps amp those gains up. But how? What does creatine do? Creatine gives you a boost of energy for…
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Jeff Nippard Explains How To Get Abs by Summer, Using Science
For those in the Northern Hemisphere, summer is still many months away. But as the saying goes, summer bodies are built during the winter. If you’re bulking now, you should plan to get your abs popping come beach season. Enter coach and content creator Jeff Nippard, who, on Jan. 15, 2024, published a YouTube video detailing how to…
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What to Eat After a Workout — How to Find the Right Refueling Sources
You know what to do during your workout. You know your reps, sets, and the percentage of your one-rep max that you’re trying to crush. But lingering questions of what to eat after a workout may well linger in your mind (especially as hunger approaches). Here, you’ll get the skinny — and the bulked — on what to…
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What Is Creatine? Your Guide to One of the Most the Popular Supplements
When everyone at your gym is taking a particle supplement, you may have one of two instincts: it must be the best thing ever or this is too good to be true, so what’s the catch? But here’s the thing about the best creatine supplements — they’re the real deal. But what is creatine? In a nutshell, it’s…
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10 Best Natural Pre-Workouts of 2024
The best pre-workout supplements can provide physical and cognitive benefits, but formulations tend to vary wildly, with many containing artificial sweeteners, colors, dyes, and additives that may blunt their overall impact. Since more and more athletes are looking for clean supplements, we tasked ourselves with curating a list of the best natural pre-workouts on the market. Over the…
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What Is Clear Whey Isolate? Here’s the Science Behind the Buzz
You thought you’d tried all the protein powder the virtual supplement aisle has to offer. But recently, the internet has been abuzz with a new type of protein powder — clear whey isolate. An ever-increasing horde of probable gymgoers are searching for the term on Google. Well-known brands are on board, with Myprotein offering MIKE AND IKE® and…
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The ONLY New Year Resolutions That Matter! Strength Weekly 2024
Strength Weekly is the show keeping you up to date on all aspects of the barbell game! This week, we’re covering resolutions — what’s up with those anyway? Here are the only ones you really need! In this episode, we discuss how to stack on track with bodyweight training, how to track your protein (the most important macro?),…
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Is Motivation Enough to Achieve Long-Term Weight Loss?
Losing weight and keeping it off is a long-term endeavor. There are many ways to accomplish sustained and consistent weight loss over time to positive results and they vary from person to person. A Dec. 2023 study in Nutrition & Diabetics assessed six months of weight loss intervention, including time-restricted feeding, alternate-day fasting, and straight caloric restriction. To measure quantitative…
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The Side Effects of Probiotics for Strength Athletes to Look Out For
Whether your main goal is to pack on muscle or pack more plates onto the bar, you’re likely cramming as much protein as you can into your diet. And while a high-protein diet is a generally safe approach, some gastrointestinal distress isn’t unheard of after all that whey protein powder in your shakes. Many people take probiotic supplements…
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Should You Fast In the Morning or Evening?
Intermittent fasting is among the most popular dieting protocols for weight loss and other health benefits, including decreasing fasting blood glucose and insulin resistance, leptin levels, and increasing adiponectin levels [1]. While time-restricted feeding (TRF) diets don’t prescribe a set schedule, the most optimal fasting window is a highly debated topic. In a video shared on Dec. 21,…
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