Recipes
20 Healthy Dinner Options For Marathon Training
Marathon preparation can seem like an introductory course in endurance eating. Traditionally, the "last supper" before a race was carbo-loaded. Nowadays, long-distance runners favor more balanced meals throughout their training—helping [...]
Protein-Packed Smoothies Without Protein Powder
The need for convenience has led athletes to rely on processed supplements over real foods. The biggest default ingredient that many tend to use is protein powder. It's a daily [...]
Make Gains With This Post-Workout Shake Recipe
One of the clichés about the importance of diet for achieving fitness goals is "90% diet, 10% workout." Regardless of the percentages, all you need to know is that it [...]
Make Healthy Eating Easier With These Items
When you've developed bad habits, change can be difficult. Embarking on a healthy lifestyle, like achieving your training goals, requires planning and effort. But over time, like with your weight [...]
Kait’s Meal of the Month: Eggplant Turkey Boats
Editor's Note: Tired of hearing why it's important to eat healthy and what your diet should consist of? If you're a STACK reader, you know by now that certain foods [...]
Does a Vegan Diet Contain Enough Protein for Athletes?
Conventional wisdom states that in order to be healthy people, especially athletes, need a diet rich in animal-based proteins like meat and dairy products. This has led to the misconception [...]
Vegetarian Recipes for the Carnivorous Athlete
A plant-based diet, when done correctly, can help decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease and aid athletes in fueling properly for performance. An abundance of food items provide a variety [...]
Post-Workout Breakfast Muscle-Building Shakes
Like the negative stat of an incomplete pass in football, if you skip a post-workout meal after an intense training session, the workout is incomplete. Unfortunately, high school athletes commonly [...]
10-Minute Dinners: 8 Healthy Recipes for Athletes
After “healthy” and “delicious,” my two favorite words describing any meal are “simple” and “fast.” We’d all have healthier eating habits if we spent our weekends planning, chopping and cooking, [...]
Make Cooking Simple and Fun With Healthy Recipe Websites
I absolutely love cooking. As a young athlete, now is the time for you to develop an enjoyment of this healthy habit. I try hard to keep meals entertaining by [...]