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5 Hacks to Make Holiday Workouts More Effective
There is a reason why "I will exercise" is one of the most common New Year's resolutions. As people slack off holiday workouts and eat delicious food,...
Surprising Things You Can’t Eat on a Paleo Diet
The premise of the Paleo diet seems simple enough: if the cavemen didn't eat it, you shouldn't either. Hello meat, fish, poultry, fruits, and veggies. Goodbye refined sugar, dairy, grains, [...]
Are Harvest Snaps Healthy?
Pick up a bag of Harvest Snaps, and you’ll be bombarded by impressive claims of good nutrition. Fresh-picked goodness! 50% less sodium than regular potato chips! 5 grams of plant [...]
The Healthiest (And Unhealthiest) Ways to Eat Chicken
Chicken is a staple of nearly every athlete's diet. It's high in protein, affordable and simple to prepare. Those are some of the reasons why chicken recently surpassed beef in [...]
Is Cauliflower Rice Actually Healthy?
As people continue to look for healthy alternatives to the modern American diet, a number of new foods have entered the mainstream lexicon. One such addition? Cauliflower rice. I’d never [...]
The Easiest and Tastiest Way to Add More Veggies to Your Diet
Americans are shockingly bad at eating vegetables. The USDA recommends eating two to three cups of vegetables a day. A recent data analysis from the CDC found that 87 percent [...]
Should You Be Taking Wheatgrass Shots?
I remember my first wheatgrass shot. It was vibrantly green and smelled like fresh lawn clippings. It tasted terrible. I rationalized that the beverage must have extraordinary nutritional powers if [...]
How to Avoid Gaining Weight in Your Offseason
If you're an active athlete on a sport's team, chances are there's a difference between the amount of exercise you get in your off season compared to in...
How a High-Nitrate Diet Can Boost Athletic Performance
Nutrition is an important aspect of athletic success since what we eat serves as the fuel we use during exercise. In recent years elite Tour de France...
3 Steps to Improve Your Performance With Nutrition
Athletes' lives are crazy. Between practice, game, film room sessions, and everything else in between recovery doesn't happen by accident. This means...