Nutrition

Trying to decrease body fat while maintaining and/or increasing your strength? Confused about supplements, food intake, and nutrient timing? Read on…

I’m a human being. I’m a white, Caucasian male, and I’m an American citizen. I have blonde hair and blue/green eyes, and I’m 68 inches tall and weigh 177 lbs. I am a protein type.

I can’t tell you how many people have come into my office and told me that they absolutely can’t gain weight no matter what they do. They go on to tell me that they have tried everything imaginable and now they have just accepted the “fact” that they will be skinny little estrogen-filled boys for the rest of their lives.

The following interview was conducted by Josh Beaty with Layne Norton, Jamie Hale, Alan Aragon, and Will Brink. Sit back and enjoy a very informative discussion.

No two people are alike. Enter “metabolic typing,” or what I like to call common sense. In the 1930s, by visiting different parts of the world, Weston Price discovered that there was a link between modern eating habits and the degree of chronic degenerative illness.

I’ve been using nutrition as a successful weapon in such athletic endeavors as powerlifting, running, swimming, sprint triathlons, special operations military training, and then back to powerlifting. Has it made a difference for me?

You know exactly what I’m talking about when I mention the freshman fifteen. You see young men and women go off to college to advance their knowledge of certain subjects in hopes of making a profession out of it.

Some of the most insightful minds in athletic nutrition share their ideas.

Although exercise in the form of endurance or resistance type training has numerous benefits such as increasing oxygenation of tissues and improving insulin sensitivity, it also has a downside.

There’s a window of opportunity around workout time where protein consumption enhances muscle protein synthesis above normal levels (in addition to the protein synthesizing effects of resistance training).

Eric, give us a little information about your background for the people who do not know you.

Over the past two to three decades, there has been an almost never-ending debate regarding human requirements for protein. The basic argument has come down to whether or not athletes need more protein than average, sedentary individuals.