Archive for category Nutrition

“Happy Holidays, now buy my fitness/nutrition book”

If you follow any fitness or nutrition blogs, you’ve probably seen this kind of message posted. You may have even been unlucky enough to get an email or twelve from some fitness person hawking whatever their latest fitness or nutrition book is. If this sounds familiar, let me clear the air on what these are […]

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PLoS ONE: Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity

This is a pretty good study that should put the nail in the coffin for the theory that paleo man burned more calories purely due to cultural necessity.  PLoS ONE: Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity

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Skeletal Muscle Protein Metabolism and Resistance Exercise

This is an excellent study showing the benefits of BCAA supplementation, especially for those of us who train fasted. Includes some surprising conclusions, like BCAA supplementation alone (without exercise) increasing muscle growth and BCAAs + carbs actually being inferior in some cases to BCAAs alone. As an added bonus, the full text is available for […]

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Q&A: Diet–Pt. 2

NOTE: This is part of a running series of Question and Answer posts answering questions from readers and redditors. Q: I know that I need to eat with a calorie deficit in mind, but how many calories do I actually need to eat each day so that it’s not detrimental to my muscle gain/maintenance, and […]

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Q&A: Diet–Pt. 1

NOTE: This is part of a running series of Question and Answer posts answering questions from readers and redditors. Q: I know the purpose of a ‘cut’ is to increase one’s muscle definition by shedding body fat. How does this differ from what the rest of the world knows as ‘dieting’? A: Simply – It […]

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Q&A–Body fat related questions

I wanted to post up some of the questions I’ve gotten from time to time from folk regarding training and diet in the hopes that it helps other folk who are still finding their way. This will be the first of what is likely to be a length series. If you are reading this and […]

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An excellent article on the science behind organic foods

Thanks to John Phung for the heads up! The Sins of Organic « Dangerously Hardcore

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Be Careful Who You Get Your Supplements From

As a public service announcement for those who don’t get over to Reddit very often, here’s an interesting thread where an enterprising lad took a sample of the very cheap, very concentrated American Pure Whey protein product and ran a chemical analysis on it. The results? Well, roughly, a sample of APW that should have […]

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Fitocracy Member Spotlight: cabichandani – Fitocracy Blog

Congrats to one of my buds on Fitocracy and Dailyburn, Cabichandani, on his much deserved member spotlight. Fitocracy Member Spotlight: cabichandani – Fitocracy Blog

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Willpower and Desire as They Relate to Fitness

Numerous times recently both on Fitocracy and in questions from readers of the blog, I have gotten questions on dieting. This is not a huge deal, and while I think it has been covered more thoroughly by more learned folk than I (see Lyle’s site, Alan Aragon’s site, and Martin’s site), I will likely end […]

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