Health

Holidays and family gatherings are often viewed as a mountainous obstacle standing between us and our health and fitness goals. With the holiday season in full swing, here are three valuable principles that can help you avoid devastation this season.

Supplement companies sell oodles of BCAAs based on the fact that your muscles need them, but ignoring the equally important fact that you probably have plenty of them already circulating in your body from proper nutrition.

For those who struggle to gain weight, the restricting factor is often as simple as a lack of calories and more often a lack of protein.

You can achieve a very lean physique without supplementation, but here are some that are used to slightly increase your ability to consistently reach a negative energy balance.

Some can’t imagine surviving a day without it, while others warn of addiction, insomnia, high blood pressure, and even heart attacks.

One of the very few known differences-makers is creatine – an natural amino acid found most abundantly in red meat, fish, and wild game.

I've said before that protein isn't necessarily a supplement, it's a food. While that statement still holds true, powdered forms of protein can serve as a supplement when used to complete your daily protein intake.

We all know someone who is able to consume insane amounts of food without any noticeable change in weight. Meanwhile, there are people who have to work really hard to get lean and experience significant changes when they fall off the rails for just a couple of days.

Cutting down does not have to be miserable. While there are no specific foods that make you gain fat, here are certain foods that make it difficult to remain in a caloric deficit because of their energy density.

In this short article, you'll learn how to use the potential energy of certain types of foods as a beneficial tool for hitting your macronutrient goals so you can pack on muscle and break through plateaus.

“A breakfast will kick-start your metabolism and have you burning fat throughout the day.” “You better have some protein after that workout.” “Don’t eat carbs before bed. To be safe, don’t eat anything after 7:00 PM.”

Commonly referred to as "macros," protein, carbohydrate, and fat are the three high-level divisions that every food falls into. If body composition means anything to you, then the macronutrient composition of your diet is worth taking into account.