Body Fat
A Fat-Loss Workout Strategy for Athletes That Actually Works
In most sports, the leaner, more powerful athletes enjoy an unfair advantage. With the Olympics going on now you can see this is evident in many of the...
The Green Bay Packers Are Using an X-Ray Technology to Monitor Eddie Lacy’s Conditioning
Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy weighed 234 pounds last season. During the team's training camp last summer, he reportedly weighed 242 pounds. Packers coach Mike McCarthy does not want [...]
Leptin: Could This Hormone Be The Reason It’s So Difficult To Keep Weight Off?
Why is it so tough to keep weight off? It's a question many Americans struggle with. A 2015 study found an average obese person who lost more than 5 percent [...]
12 Insane Physical Tests U.S. Olympians Must Undergo
I will not be participating in this year’s Summer Olympics. Shocker, I know. But that doesn’t mean I can’t train like an Olympian. Nike’s Limitless Potential program demonstrates the intense [...]
The High-Tech Mirror and Scale That Change How We Look at Our Bodies
[youtube video="xJMMdcLEgbs" /] Your bathroom scale is dumb. Yes, it measures how much you weigh, but it has no way of revealing what is actually going on in your body—which [...]
What You Can Learn About Nutrition Planning From NFL Draft Prospects
Foods For Football The NFL combine is one of the most important events in a young football player's career. It's common for players to train for weeks...
Yasiel Puig is Down to 7 Percent Body Fat, Might be the Most Shredded Dude in Baseball
Yasiel Puig was jacked from the moment he joined the MLB. Then he got even more jacked, adding roughly 25 pounds of (mostly) muscle to his frame over his first [...]
Are You Working Out Too Much?
Are You Working Out Too Much? By Jim Carpentier, CSCS With 2016 well underway, it's never too late for athletes and non-athletes to alter or make a new...
NFL Linebacker’s Diet Used to Include Pasta Topped With 7 Packets of Sugar
There’s nothing wrong with adding a bit of salt and pepper to your food every now and again. But those common spices were apparently not enough for Denver Broncos rookie [...]
Determine an Athlete’s Optimum Sport Weight in 4 Steps
PALEO DIET A Step by Step Approach to Optimal Weight and Performance by Athletes Amy Jamieson-Petonic, MEd, RDN, CSSD, LD After attending the Academy of...