Metabolic
Can Dark Chocolate Benefit Your Workout?
A recent study conducted at the University of California, San Diego and published in the Journal of Physiology, which sought to determine the effects of dark chocolate on exercise, discovered [...]
Get Quicker with Football-Specific Intervals
Athletes have to be in great shape. But jogging is never the best way to train the body for competition, since it produces slow movement patterns, which can actually hinder [...]
Promote Muscle Growth…By Eating Apples?
The old adage, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” isn’t only applicable to a healthy immune system. According to a new study from the University of Iowa, eating [...]
Build Endurance With an Efficient Metabolic Med Ball Workout
We’ve all met guys who brag about going to the gym five days a week, but who spend more time yapping it up with their buddies than working out. You [...]
Three Ways to Apply Battling Ropes to Your Workout
Rope exercises train for full-body strength and conditioning with one piece of equipment. Known as Battling Ropes, they facilitate a form of velocity training that forces you to produce and [...]
Watch Jake Locker Take on His NFL Draft Gatorade Performance Test
A few days before the Tennessee Titans made him the eighth overall selection in the 2011 NFL Draft, Jack Locker faced a barrage of tests at the Gatorade Performance Lab [...]
Wake Up With Weight Training
For some student-athletes, getting out of bed for a mandatory early morning workout in the off-season is more difficult than the actual training session. If you are one of those [...]
How to Calculate Your Daily Fueling Needs
At the 2011 NSCA Coaches Conference [which STACK wrote about here], Josh Hingst, director of sports nutrition for the University of Nebraska, presented a session on "Complete Nutrition for College [...]
Revolutionary Energy With Generation UCAN
We've got a new product on our radar—Generation UCAN, made with “SuperStarch.” Called “the little carb that could,” SuperStarch is a complex carbohydrate that helps the athlete achieve [...]
Speed and Agility Drills With Baylor Baseball
The 2005 Baylor University baseball team was made up of gamers-straight up gamers. The Bears feasted on the cream of the competitive crop, going 9-3 against nationally-ranked top-10 teams. Four [...]