Nutrition & Wellness

Featured Fitness Content: Volume 55

If you’re like most inhabitants of the world, you’ve probably come into a fair bit of extra reading time as of late. This downtime doesn’t need to mean downtime from health or from advancing towards your goals. Our Featured Fitness Content series sheds light on what tactics industry experts are utilizing to either get healthier …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 53

You can find the 52nd edition of our Featured Fitness Content series here. We’ll be adding these segments more regularly as we find unique, insightful, or otherwise valuable fitness content across the web. If you’ve come across or written a good post to be featured, submit it on our contact page. [VIDEO] The Effects of …

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Ruthless Performer Q&A – Maximizing Health Span with Kyle Fisher

**Editor’s Note: Today’s Ruthless Performer Q&A Series is one of the most expansive in the Q&A series to-date. Like many health professionals, Kyle’s own history in sports and wellness lends credibility to many of his thoughts on health and maximizing the health of athletes and the general population. If you like what Kyle has to …

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Ruthless Performer Q&A – Elite Sports Nutrition with Jesse Rodriguez R.D.

Today’s Q&A guest is our own sports nutritionist Jesse Rodriguez. Jesse has his own prolific history as a national-level swimmer for El Salvador and here in the United States competing in college and post-graduate for the University of Southern California. This all makes Jesse a world-class resource as not many people have competed at this …

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Ruthless Performer Q&A – Functional Medicine with Dr. Touchinsky

This post marks the first in our new Ruthless Perfomer Q&A series. Throughout this series we’ll be talking with various health and fitness influencers regarding their specific niche and how it effects the world of health and wellnessa at-large. Today we’re joined by Dr. Touchinsky who established Blue Mountain Family Chiropractic in 2005. His early focus was …

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Building a plate

Making small changes will lead to bigger results. Start off with behavioral changes before jumping on to the new diet out there. This means things like eating on a smaller plate, removing the salt from the table, reducing serving sizes, etc. In general, a “healthy” or “healthier” plate should include a protein, whole grain, complex …

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Does Caffeine Have Any Effect On Resistance Exercise?

Many gym-goers are looking for ways to get more work in during their training sessions. Some turn to pre-workout supplements while others may turn to steroid-related drugs. Although pre-workout supplements contain caffeine, it’s also filled with unnecessary and potentially dangerous substances. Caffeine on resistance training has been long looked at with supportive research data on …

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A Comparison Of Several Sports Drinks

Electrolytes consist of sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, magnesium, and bicarbonate. Workouts lasting less than 1 hour typically only need to re-hydrate with water but for workouts >1 hour, require liquids with a combination of carbohydrates and electrolytes.  Electrolytes are needed because they are, along with water, are lost through sweat which is the bodies primary …

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