Sports Nutrition
Will Eating Too Much Protein Harm Your Health?
Everyone looking to gain lean muscle and lose fat has probably heard that consuming protein is a key part of the process. (Learn more about post-game nutrition.) But can you eat [...]
Katie Knappenberger Named STACK Expert of the Month
Katie Knappenberger, R.D., ATC, assistant professor and athletic trainer at Daytona State College (Daytona Beach, Fla.) has been named STACK’s Expert of the Month for March 2012. She will receive [...]
Use Sports Nutrition to Heal Your Injury Faster
A key to being a great athlete is staying off the injured list. Athletes who spend the least amount of time hurt spend the most time conditioning their bodies and [...]
Meal Snap App: Easy Way to Count Calories
Athletes must take in enough calories throughout the day to meet their energy demands. According to Josh Hingst, director of sports nutrition for the University of Nebraska, “There is nothing [...]
Larry Fitzgerald Takes on EAS's Unstoppable Tour
EAS, a leader in performance fuel products, created a unique challenge to show how proper sports nutrition can help make an athlete unstoppable. They chose one ultra athlete to take [...]
2011 NSCA Coaches Conference Highlights
STACK attended the 2011 National Strength and Conditioning Association [NSCA] Coaches Conference in Dallas, Texas, at the beginning of the year. The event attracted the nation’s leading strength and conditioning [...]
Hydration for Successful Sports Performance
As bright gym lights beat down on you during practice, sweat drips from your brow and a vision of ice-cold sugary lemonade appears before you—remember that what you drink before, [...]
Drink Cold Fluids During Workouts
Does fluid temperature impact performance? Perhaps, suggests a study published in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. While sweat is your body’s natural cooling mechanism, cold fluids [...]
Reduce Muscle Soreness With Cherry Juice
Strengthening your muscles requires breaking them down, which leads to a natural yet irritating aftereffect: muscle soreness. According to Ball State’s director of strength research David Pearson, this microtrauma is [...]
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 [...]
