WATCH: Blast from the Past — The Beginning Stage of a Diet
How many carbohydrates do you need in every meal? Should you consume more on training days than rest days? How many grams of protein are necessary? These actually aren’t the questions you should be asking.
WATCH: How Much Protein Do You Really Need to Build Muscle?
100 grams per day? 200? 300? And is it possible too have too much?
5 Key Lessons From Contest Prep
Stepping on stage is reserved for a special breed of lifter, but the lessons you learn from competing apply to all training goals. Here are the things my rookie bodybuilding season taught me.
Enjoy BBQ Season Without Wrecking Your Diet
You don’t have to turn BYOB into BYOF (bring your own food, often in a cooler).
The Diet of an IFBB Pro Six Weeks Out
This is a practical example of exactly what I ate during the sixth week before hitting the contest stage. Why is this important to you? Because it pushes right up to that life sucks and I hate dieting threshold.
Why Comfort Can Kill Your Progress
Familiarity and comfort aren’t always bad things — I drive the same route home every day. But in your diet and training? Be ready for change.
Operation Be Less Fat: A Year In Review
I started 2015 with a plan. Like most plans, it had to change throughout the year. I learned a lot and have even more to accomplish.
No Need To Be Scared Of Saturated Fats...Or Any Other Foods
More and more research is being released to show us saturated fat is not going to kill you. We need to stop being afraid of food.
Are These Subconscious Habits Keeping You From Losing Weight?
Incorporate these simple, yet effective, techniques to manage your weight.
Contest Prep Dieting and Training Modifications From 21 to 11 Weeks Out
By adjusting macronutrient ratios and splitting workouts into twice a day, you can overcome the lack of energy from low-calorie contest prep. You won’t even have to do cardio.
WATCH: Egg Cups as a Delicious Portable Protein
Hey Chubby, put down that Egg McMuffin and cook yourself a healthy, muscle building alternative.
Seven Juicy Dieting Morsels
Seven things to consider when going to that dark and lonely place called dieting.
Diet Clean-Up Checklist
Looking to take your diet from haphazard and crappy to functional and goal-promoting? Kristin steers you in the right direction.
Elitefts Classic: 10 Nuggets of Wisdom
If you want to lose fat and do so by diet and increasing your conditioning, is it no wonder you got weaker?
NYSC Undercover: Four More Tips to Fix Your Shitty Diet, Part 2
It is back to cleaning up that diet of yours.
Best of Justin Harris (Part 1)
Some nutrition and training gems from Justin that you may have forgotten.
I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old: The Last Diet
I developed three wardrobes: medium, large, and too damn big.
Do You Have to “Suffer” While Dieting?
When it comes to dieting, why is it that everyone automatically thinks they have to suffer and deprive themselves from everything in life?
Cheat to Get Ripped
Bodybuilding preparation is based in tradition, not science. This leads to physiological problems when trying to get ripped.
What Women Should Never (but often) Do While Trying to Get in Shape: Par...
Dieting has become an out-of-control, multi-billion dollar industry that thrives on people’s confusion and dependence.
Under The Bar: Randomness
Sales suck, workload is high and it’s hot and humid outside. Stress? What do you think?
