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Eliminate Self-Doubt for Better Workouts
Just not feeling it today? Have you ever stepped into the gym and felt like the workout was just going to destroy you? Did you ever have a coach load on...
3 Ways Caffeine Improves Your Sports Performance
If you drink coffee, you are very familiar with how caffeine can improve your energy and mental focus. Put simply, caffeine works fantastically—which is why Americans drink an average of [...]
5 Endurance Supplements That Effectively Boost Your Stamina
Endurance athletics requires a fine balance of strength and endurance that can only be achieved by years of strategic training and dieting. Endurance...
7 Reasons Athletes Are Going to Love CLIF’s Nut Butter Bars
In mid April, the day before I ran the Boston Marathon, I had the opportunity to sample CLIF’s yet-to-be-released Nut Butter Bars. Since that day, I have eagerly been awaiting [...]
These 5 Alarming Stats Show Just How Bad the Average American Eats
It’s an appropriate coincidence that the acronym for the Standard American Diet is SAD. Also known as the Western pattern diet, the SAD uses available data to estimate the diet [...]
This Simple Plyometric Exercise Will Make You Faster
Plyometric exercises are among the best ways to improve your speed for your sport. Unfortunately, too many athletes butcher them. Sometimes they perform a “plyometric” exercise in a way that [...]
5 Brain Foods For Mental Focus In Your Life
Staying in shape is just as much about the mental as it is about the physical. It requires will and concentration to show up to the gym after putting in...
The Diet Change That Could Propel Swimmer Elizabeth Beisel to Olympic Gold
Much has changed for Elizabeth Beisel since her first Olympic Games. In 2008, she was a 15-year-old high school student who narrowly missed earning a medal with a fourth-place finish [...]
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 [...]
How Energy Systems Training Can Help You Be Better at Your Sport
When athletes and coaches think about conditioning it often times involves endless bouts of suicides, stair runs, and sprints with reckless abandonment....