Nutrition
How to Wreck Your Training with Pre-workout Supplements
Highly caffeinated pre-workout supplements are robbing people of their strength potential. You read that right.
Energy Balance: How Your Body Fights Weight Loss
Let’s tackle some of the issues contributing to failed attempts at creating a negative energy balance.
Strong and Energized vs Weak and Depleted: How High School Wrestlers Need to Eat
In wrestling, as in every weight class sport, proper nutrition can save you from enduring grueling last-week weight cuts. This off-season plan reduces the need for the old-school dangerous approach.
The Fallacy of the Fat Burning Zone
To better understand how exercise intensity dictates fuel use, and what this means in respect to the fat burning zone, we need to review the energy systems your body can rely on during exercise.
Intra-Workout Nutrition Q&A: BCAAs, HBCD, and Supplements on a Budget
You have questions, team elitefts has answers. Today's topic: intra-workout supplementation.
Enjoy BBQ Season Without Wrecking Your Diet
You don't have to turn BYOB into BYOF (bring your own food, often in a cooler).
Morning Metabolism and Circadian Rhythms
If Diet-Induced Thermogenisis is in fact a variable we can control through a choice on whether/how to distribute our calories across the day, it could be the example of magic metabolism claimed in so many fitness tip listicles.
Mixing Macros — How to Use Macronutrient Combinations to Improve Your Physique
Different macronutrient combinations can each have their own physiological effects, advantages, and disadvantages. Take total advantage of it.
My 12-Week Diet in Preparation for 2016 USS Strongman Nationals
Mike Mastell has helped me with my nutrition which varies by training days, off days, and event days. Here's a detailed breakdown.
Adaptive Thermogenesis — The Beauty and the Beast of The Biggest Loser
Starvation Mode is the not-so-accurate term for your body's reaction to extreme caloric deficits. What price do you pay for rapid weight loss?
WATCH: Table Talk — How Should A Big Guy Lose Weight?
For someone over 350 pounds, the rules of dropping weight are a little different. There are a few things you need to remember.
Unraveling Insulin Resistance
IR sufferers need to replace their carb intake with proteins and fats...or do they?












