The supplement industry is an amazing beast - stores filled with thousands of products all brightly coloured, vying for your attention, and touting the results you are after. With the price tag some of ... Continue Reading
Can Vitamin D Prevent Obesity?
There’s a joke you may have heard about shedding winter pounds in the summer time. It’s almost as if some vestige of hibernation still exists in people and we begin to pack on the pounds in preparation for ... Continue Reading
3 Simple Steps to Properly Fuel Your Performance
I love the amount of discussion recently around the concept of eating for performance. Fuelling your body to be the best athlete you can be, whether you’re just starting out or a regular athlete, is a much ... Continue Reading
Backyard Protein: An Urbanite’s Guide to Raising Chickens
It's 2:00 and you have a hankering for some protein. You grill up some chicken breast and have a nice mid-day snack. Ah, delicious protein. Then you get to thinking...do you really know where that chicken ... Continue Reading
MSG, Trans Fat, and Aspartame: 3 Secret Ingredients That Are Killing You and Your Results
Most of the readers of Breaking Muscle are concerned about health and actively do something about it. There is perhaps no single better way to stay healthy than a good diet. While this is common sense, the ... Continue Reading
Orthorexia: When Eating Healthy Food Becomes an Unhealthy Obsession
We all know someone like this or maybe you are this someone: Every time you’re around them, they just can’t stop talking about the raw, vegan, cacao super-fruit cookies they made and how they can feel the ... Continue Reading
What’s the Best Recovery Drink for Multiple Workouts?
By now we should all be familiar with the debunked magical recovery ratio for post-workout shakes and meals. We’ve all been told for years that anywhere from 2:1 to 4:1 carbs to protein is ideal for ... Continue Reading
Fermented Milk Shown More Effective Than Milk Post-Workout
When we exercise, damage is done to the muscles in the microscopic scale. People who exercise regularly can sometimes take this for granted, but whenever a routine is changed the reminder of the muscle ... Continue Reading
One Nation, Malnourished: Take Control and Change the Future
An estimated 97 million adults in the United States (55% of the population) are overweight or obese. The American Public Health Association has stated that nine million children between the ages of six and ... Continue Reading
An Athlete’s Guide to Inflammation: What to Eat and What to Avoid
Any athlete who pounds his or her body week in and week out with PRs, 1RMs, triples and doubles, sprints, long weekend runs, and the list goes on, is inflamed in some way. These activities all have a ... Continue Reading
Controlling Satiety: What We Know About Snacking
Years ago, I knew a nutrition teacher who was overweight - very overweight, in fact. He would actually bring it up on the first day of class because apparently it was a question he got on a regular basis. ... Continue Reading
A New Look At Vegetarian Versus Omnivorous Diets
There’s been a lot of dogma over the years about the health benefits of vegetarianism. For decades a vegetarian diet has been associated with better health and longer life. The problems of confounding ... Continue Reading
Rice Protein Supplements: Yea or Nay?
For numerous reasons, people might avoid standard whey protein supplements. Perhaps they are vegans or experience a digestive problem with whey. Whatever the reason, these protein seekers go elsewhere for ... Continue Reading
Stop Fearing Your Food: How to Create a Healthy Relationship With Your Nutrition
What do you think of when hear the word diet? The first word that springs to my mind is restriction, closely followed by hunger and hard work. Generally not something anyone is too excited to embark upon; ... Continue Reading
The Cult of Supplements and the Dangers of Multi-Level Marketing
Dietary Supplement: a product taken orally that contains on or more ingredients (as vitamins or amino acids) that are intended to supplement one’s diet and are not considered food. Here’s how you ... Continue Reading
7 Articles for Chocolate Lovers
If you start drooling when you hear the word "cacao," you're in for a treat. Here are 7 articles that explain why real chocolate is actually good for you - plus a few products you've gotta try if you call ... Continue Reading
Don’t Be a Supplement Sucker: Use My C.H.E.C.K. System
It really irks me when I here of so many trainees and young athletes falling prey to the marketing lures of the countless supplement propaganda on the market. Companies campaign to make an athlete and even ... Continue Reading
Grok Didn’t Eat Oatmeal and Other “Directionally Accurate” Paleo Myths
My partners and I at Efficient Exercise have wrangled for quite some time over what exactly to call ourselves. “Personal Trainer” really limits the scope and obscures the totality of the education in all ... Continue Reading
The Amazing Benefits of the Mysterious Vitamin P
You may not know that in the first part of the twentieth century there was such a thing as vitamin P. Not only that, but vitamin P helped to reduce blood sugar, improve insulin resistance, reduce lipids, ... Continue Reading
Eating Deli Meat Is Killing You and Your Heart
I’m a meat eater, let me just get that out of the way. I used to be a vegetarian, and I was for many years, but I don’t think I will ever go back. I think the paleo diet is a good thing. The growing body ... Continue Reading
The ABCs of Vitamins: Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)
This week, in part six of my series on the ins and outs of vitamins, we will look at the mood influencing, body clock regulator known as vitamin B6. What Does Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) Do? Vitamin B6, ... Continue Reading
Five Supplements Even CrossFitters Should Love
Am I bad person for stereotyping CrossFitters as being anti-supplementation? I think I’m allowed to joke about this, having been program director at CrossFit Los Angeles for almost eight years. It was my ... Continue Reading
The ABCs of Vitamins: Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid)
This week, in part five of my series on the ins and outs of vitamins, we will look at the cholesterol producing all-arounder known as vitamin B5. That might sound strange that we want a cholesterol ... Continue Reading
Creatine Supplementation Is Not Bad for Your Kidneys
When talking about results, creatine is one of the most basic and best supplements anyone can take. If you had to pick between something like a protein supplement and creatine, for most people I’d say go ... Continue Reading
