Category: Nutrition
What Does Your Body Store As Fat Easiest? Carbs vs. Fats
Is it harder for the body to store carbs as fat, than it is to store fat as fat? Total daily energy intake and expenditure dictate whether we store energy...
Is Flexible Dieting Good For Weight Loss? IIFYM vs. Meal Plans
Is Flexible or Rigid Dieting Better For Weight Loss? People who use a flexible diet focus on the overall calories and macronutrients while manipulating food choices to meet their nutrition...
How Much Protein Can You Absorb In One Meal?
What Does “Protein Absorption” Mean…? From a nutritional view, absorption describes the passage of nutrients from the gut into systemic circulation. When people ask about absorbing protein they are usually...
Reverse Dieting, Body Recomposition, and How To Train While Cutting
Every single month, our Chief Science Officer Dr. Brandon Roberts puts together a Research Review with 2-3 top studies on specific topics catered to our audiences’ goals, questions, and struggles....
How Low Can You Take Your Calories?
People want to lose weight as fast as possible, but at some point it becomes counterproductive to continually lower your calories. Once you identify a diet you enjoy ⸻whether it...
How and Why To Use Diet Breaks [Research Review: The ICECAP Trial]
Research Review #10 Brandon Roberts, Ph.D., CSCS*D Chief Science Officer *Note from Brandon: if you want to learn how to interpret research go read each study before reading the breakdown...
High Carb Diets Work Better For Fat Loss Than Low Carb Diets
What if I Told You That Science Says Low Carb Diets Suck…? ….for fat loss (← key point to add to that statement). Ok look, I would never say any diet...
Heat/Cold Therapy To Reduce DOMS and Improve Recovery + Health Benefits Of Fasting – March Research Review
*Note from Brandon: if you want to learn how to interpret research go read each study before reading the breakdown below, take notes, then compare your interpretation to mine. [Rather...
3-Phase Fat Loss Diet System
People often look at training program design and immediately consider periodization – because how can you have an effective training plan if you don’t actually plan for the days, weeks,...
The Most Important Amino Acid & How To Optimize Your Meals With It (Leucine Threshold)
The Importance Of Leucine Threshold For Building and Retaining Lean Body Mass Leucine threshold. A topic many people, even in the fitness space are unaware of, but everybody should...
Diet Breaks: Defined and Applied
Today we are going to talk about how you can maximize the effectiveness of your diet and keep the weight off! Let’s first think about how a deficit is created:...
What Are The Health Benefits To Eating Organ Meat?
Food fads come and go. An acai bowl one year, hemp hearts the next. Superfoods are promoted all the time and while most of these foods have merits, there’s one...