Training Articles - Nutrition
- Protein Deficiency Symptoms
Barrack Diego provides an overview of the symptoms that may indicate you are protein deficient.
- Carbohydrates - Workout - Carbohydrates
Hayley Irvin provides three important reasons why you should eat carbohydrates before and after a workout.
- Athlete Nutrition
Louise Wood provides an overview of the importance of nutrition for an athlete before, during, and after an event.
- Sham Health Foods
Paul Aitken considers if some of these health foods are as beneficial to us as they are promoted to be.
- Biotin-Rich Foods
Anna Garland provides an overview of eight foods containing high biotin levels essential for healthy hair, nails, and skin which should be included in everyone's diet.
- Does the body need more energy?
Energy is needed to form muscle tissue. The question is where to get it from when to consume it, and in what quantity.
- Calorie intake and a higher protein diet
The calories you consume vs the calories you burn determine if you are in a caloric deficit or surplus. If we are in a surplus, we gain weight because our bodies store the unused surplus. It is of course a bit more nuanced than that because hormones, food timing, or certain conditions can play a role.
- Eating Meat as Part of a Fitness Program
It is important to make sure you are eating the right kind of meat to maximize its benefits and ensure that you are getting the most out of your fitness goals. Here, we will discuss the importance of eating meat in your fitness journey and how to do it healthily.
- Female Athlete Nutrition
A look at the nutritional problems of female athletes, how to identify individuals who are at risk, the link between energy consumption and menstrual issues, and newly discovered chronic illnesses.
- Nutrition for Optimum Athletic Efficiency.
A proper diet offers adequate energy and nutrients for an athlete to satisfy the requirements of training and activity. It aids in not only maximum performance but also recuperation.
- Food for Performance
A proper diet offers adequate energy and nutrients for an athlete to satisfy the requirements of training and activity. It aids in not only maximum performance but also recuperation.
- Seven Easy Lifestyle Improvements
Sometimes the right thing to do can seem like a scary change. The good news is this is not the only way to make a difference in your life. If you want to improve your experience, you can start by taking these simple steps.
- Protein Supplements To Build More Muscle
Seven reasons why you should take Protein Supplements to build more muscle.
- How to lose weight
Not being able to lose the fat on your belly or thighs even after an extensive diet and exercise regime can be a massive blow to your motivation.
- How Fasting Helps You Lose Weight
How you can change your eating lifestyle in a way that would promote weight loss without restrictive diets.
- Why be a Vegan?
Tips to ensure your health stays intact while supporting a vegan lifestyle.
- Protein-Packed Recipes for an Instant Pot
Five protein-packed recipes to try out with your Instant Pot. This unique piece of equipment combines all types of cookers into a single piece. Whatever you want to cook, you can do so with an Instant Pot.
- What Does A Certified Nutrition Coach Do?
This article considers some of the benefits a nutrition coach can offer their clients.
- How to Sustain Fitness with Peptides while in Quarantined
Staying healthy and fit has never been more critical in the history of humanity. We live in trying times where the world is under siege by a global pandemic with no specific treatment and is highly contagious. Your best bet to survive is to stay fit and healthy and have a robust immune system.
- Protein for optimal performance
Athletes are advised to focus on high-quality protein varieties. Casein, milk-derived whey protein and proteins from soy and egg whites render essential amino acids.
- What Healthy Food Can You Cook In A Ninja Foodi?
The Ninja Foodi is an air fryer with some fantastic features to help you cook finger-licking and healthy meals. But, it also acts as a pressure cooker. So, you will have a pressure cooker and an air fryer combined in one unit when you purchase the Ninji Foodi.
- How to Achieve an Ideal Weight and BMI
If you are actively looking to lower your body weight and BMI, either for health reasons or for sports, your method will be the same. It will be a combination of cardio work, a strict diet, and a lot of willpower. Getting down and making weight can be either done stretched out over months or rapidly over weeks.
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Keto Diet
The keto diet is a firm favourite because it is easy to follow and effective. More formally known as the ketogenic diet, this diet encourages you to get more calories from protein and fat and less from carbohydrates.
- Take A Natural Approach To Your Diet
But of all the things you can eat on this planet, cooked or raw, nothing is healthier and more nutritious than natural food or made purely from extracts of natural substances without any synthetic additives. In this article, we will be looking at why adults should take a more natural approach to their diet.
- Eating for Performance
Without a healthy diet, you will not be able to train well, so what you eat has a significant influence on how far you get. The same goes for every athletic event. Talent will take a discus so far, technique a bit further, hard work and training give it more distance and the right fuel in that machine called your body, the final bit.
- Fat Burning
If you have been struggling with addressing body weight and have been met with frustrating results, this is your lucky day.
- Fight Obesity
Engaging in moderate to medium physical training can drastically improve the physical condition and self-esteem of those who have excess weight.
- Sports nutrition on a budget
Eating healthy on a budget while training can be difficult due to the increased calorie demand, in this article are some tips to help you sustain adequate nutrition at a low cost.
- How to quit consuming alcohol
Consumption of alcohol, mostly when consumed beyond a given limit, can have detrimental effects on your physical and mental health. Moreover, the habit itself can be extremely addictive and difficult to quit. How do you stop?
- Keto Diet
Here are a few tips that will help ensure that you follow a Keto diet correctly.
- Sports Nutritional Tips
Here are a few tips that will help any athlete keep their nutrition in resonance with their athletic ambitions.
- Smoothies Enhance Exercise
Proper athlete nutrition before and after exercise is vital in enhancing your workout and finding the motivation and strength to continue exercising. So what is the easiest way to get this nutrition all at once?
- Losing Weight Mistakes
Advice on the mistakes we may make in the process of trying to lose weight.
- Losing Weight
We have all been through it. The constant struggle of eating clean and hitting the gym every day in hopes of shedding a few pounds is something we can all relate to. Losing weight is probably the hardest thing to do for many women. Some of these tried and tested techniques come from women who have lost more than 100 pounds!
- Nutritional Tips
Having healthy nutrition may be quite a challenge for most college students. This is often due to their tight schedule, budget or just too rigid to leave their comfort zone. With time, they realize how beneficial it is for their well-being.
- Keto Diet
Ernist Peibst examines if the Keto Diet is good or bad for athletes.
- Food for Sight
Paul Robinson identifies the many types of food that may help improve your eyesight.
- Fight Gym Frizz
At the end of every gym session you come to the same two questions, "Why is my always frizzy?" or "Why does my skin get dry after a workout?" You can always wash your hair and lather your skin with moisturizer. But what most of us do not realize is the importance of hydration and nourishment for our hair and skin.
- Optimum nutrition for bodybuilding
Paul Jenkins explains why it is vital to monitor macronutrients, rather than calories, and why your meals' frequency is of the utmost importance when planning your nutritional regime.
- Acupuncture and weight loss
Joel Cordle provides an overview of acupuncture and how it might be used to help you lose weight.
- Healthy USA Fast-Food Breakfasts
According to dietary experts, the key to healthy breakfasts lies in finding the right combination of complex carbohydrates, proteins, and fats that are healthy and can keep your hunger at bay. Five of the options for a healthy breakfast are:
- Calorie Count or How Far Can I Go?
Vic Denwood provides an overview of how you might use calorie counting to manage your weight.
- Nutritional Impact on Immunity and Ageing
Lily Bedford reviews the results of some studies that looked into the link between nutrition, immunity, and ageing and the link between food prices and health.
- Low Carb Protein Bars
Katy Reeve considers if low carb Protein Bars are effective in weight loss.
- Nutritious Diet May Help Boost Fertility
Joel Cordle examines some of the foods that may help boost the fertility of men and women.
- Carb Cycling For Improved Athletic Performance
Matthew Rowe explains the use of carb cycling versus conventional dieting for improving an athlete's performance.
- Improving Blood Circulation with superfoods
Joel Cordle examines some of the Superfoods that may boost your blood circulation.
- An effective fat-burning routine
Mark Kislich provides some advice on an effective training protocol that will help boost HGH (growth hormone) levels and initiate lipolysis (fat burning).
- Food for thought
Nutrition is an inherent part of primary recovery, but coaches and athletes need to understand the difference between acceptable dietary practices and nutrition to enhance performance.
- Vegan Diet
The secret is out. Nowadays, many athletes choose a vegan diet to help with their recuperation time and enhance their pitch performance.
- Healthy Eating To Help Prevent Injury
In this article, we will give you a roundup of how nutrition and injury prevention and recovery are connected along with some tips on how to make your meals more nourishing.
- Eating for Abs
If you are serious about seeing your abs, you may need to overhaul your current diet. Listed in this article are some of the best foods to eat (and some you should avoid) if you are working toward getting a flat, toned stomach.
- How to get more protein into your diet
Christopher Worthington considers what steps can you take to increase your diet amount.
- Paleo Diet
Sally Perkins identifies the positive health effects of the Paleo Diet.
- How iron intake can improve your workouts
Christopher Worthington considers the impact of iron supplements on you and your workouts.
- Six Ways of Overindulging Yourself
Clara John looks at some of the reasons why we overeat and how to avoid it for a healthier life.
- Reasons for Craving Unhealthy Food
Clara John explains the various reasons why we are attracted to unhealthy food items.
- Debunking Three Common Nutrition Myths
We are greeted with nutrition messages through a variety of media sources, and while some newspapers, magazines, and online sources can be counted on to provide evidence-based advice, this is not always the case. As a result, there is a lot of dubious advice about what we should be eating in circulation, much of which has become ingrained beliefs.
- A Nutritious Diet for Vegetarian and Vegan Athletes
A vegetarian diet requires careful monitoring of protein, vitamin B12, and iron levels, which can all be found in non-animal sources of food, but which can sometimes take a bit of planning, as many are not so readily available as their meaty counterparts.
- The Truth About High Protein Diets and Kidney Damage
A case for increased protein intake not only being harmless but potentially even have a protective effect.
- Artificial Sweeteners
Do sweeteners prevent weight loss?
May the use of artificial sweeteners produce side effects?
What are some of the differences between artificial sweeteners? - Basic Nutritional Principles
Glenn Kearney provides some nutritional advice for developing power athletes. Evidence strongly suggests that the acquisition of muscle protein results from the workout stimulus plus the proper nutrition during the workout and more importantly, during the 24 hours immediately after the workout.
- Metabolic Myths and Truths that you must know about
If you are looking to experience a maximum fat loss rate, it will be vital that you learn exactly how the fat loss process takes place and what myths surround the rate at which you burn calories daily.
- Best Supplements for Melting the Fat
Ron Fritzke provides advice on three supplements that will reduce your fat.
- Taking a Peek Into Super Fruits
As you improve your nutrition and try to take in healthier foods every day, one category of foods not to leave out is superfruits. Fruits such as Acai, Goji, Maqui, and Mangosteen all offer tremendous benefits to your health and will help you feel great.
- Sarcopenia (loss of muscle), the undiagnosed epidemic
One of the greatest threats to an ageing adult's ability to stay healthy and functional is the steady loss of lean body mass - muscle and bone in particular. The loss of strength, mobility, and functionality is not an inevitable part of ageing. This is what you need to do...
- What your athletes should be
eating
Athletes - how to determine your daily nutritional requirements.
- Just what do athletes need in the way of nutrition?
If taken the day or several days before a race, there is no magic food to transform the athlete into a world-beater. So, choosing a diet that provides the athlete with the correct balance of nutrients is desirable.
- Will Brink's Unified Theory of Nutrition
The truth behind diets is that they are often quite good at suppressing appetite, and thus the person ends up eating fewer calories and losing weight. Also, the weight loss from such diets is often from water vs fat, at least in the first few weeks. That is not to say people cannot experience significant weight loss with some of these diets, but the effect comes from reducing calories vs any magical effects often claimed by proponents of such diets.
- The latest on Pre/Post workout nutrition
"Timing is everything." Consuming the right foods at the right time can have positive effects on body composition, which can mean more muscle and less body fat.
- The big picture of permanent weight loss
If you are sick and tired of being confused, tired of taking the weight off only to put it back on, and tired of wondering how to take the first steps to decide the right diet for you that will result in permanent weight loss, then this is the article that could change your life.
- Nutritional Tips
Skipping meals or reducing your calorie intake does not help control weight in the long term. It is important to eat at regular intervals, ideally, every 3-5 hours, to keep blood sugar levels stable.
- Achieving a balanced diet for vegetarian
athletes
How vegetarian athletes can achieve a balanced diet to support their athletic careers.
- How to ensure your athletes eat
healthily
Food provides nutrients to help the body function properly. No single food contains them all in the amounts needed, so a mixture of foods has to be eaten.
- Being obsessed with food and body weight
can develop eating disorders
If you are an athlete aiming to optimise performance in your sport, you can reap benefits from paying attention to what you eat. However, this interest develops into an unhealthy obsession with food, calories, and body weight for some people.
- Seven Reasons Why a Low Carbohydrate
Diet is Wrong
A look at the health problems you may experience with a low carbohydrate diet.
- What Should Young Athletes Eat?
Some suggestions on appropriate nutrition for young athletes.
- Exercise and low carbohydrate diets make
poor partners
A review of the problems you may experience when you mix exercise and a low carbohydrate diet in an attempt to lose fat without losing muscle.
- Are you getting enough fluids?
The facts, fiction, and some practical advice on fluid intake.
- Calcium: No bones about it - part
1
An in-depth review of calcium supplementation and the potential effects on the body.
- Amino acids - the building blocks of
protein
An overview of the role and function of amino acids and protein.
- Calcium: No bones about it - part
2
A review of calcium and the potential benefits of calcium supplementation.
- Water - the antidote to heatstroke and
hyperthermia
Why it is important to maintain the body's fluid level when exercising in both hot and cold climates.
- Training and protein need
Why protein is an essential ingredient of your fitness training programme.
- How to recognise the early signs of
eating disorder
The risks and warning signals of disordered eating.
- Drink your way to winning performances:
the seven secrets of hydration
If you wish to perform at a high level, you need to consume fluid. For each percent of body weight loss due to dehydration, your performance slips by about 2%, and a 2% loss in weight can force your heart rate and body temperature to spiral upward, making strenuous exercise almost impossible to carry out.
- What should I eat, and what should I
avoid? - Decisions, Decisions!
An overview of the nutritional requirements for an athlete.
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