Picture this: you're out playing basketball with your friends on a Monday night. Pickup games with your friends at the local rec center are one of your favorite ways to blow off some steam and bond with ... Continue Reading
Opposites Distract: Stress Versus Fitness
Sure, fitness leads to well-being. But new research1 indicates that being fit may also defend against stress-related health problems brought on at work. University of Basel researchers, with colleagues ... Continue Reading
Go Big: Be Your Own Coach
If I told you the earth was flat, you’d laugh me off as some kind of nut. Yet this was the dominant perspective for thousands of years. I know it’s a hyperbolic example, but too many of us still live with ... Continue Reading
Unravelling the Urban Myths of Soy Protein
A recent study, published by the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, was conducted to better understand the connection between production of estrogen and the consumption of soy and whey protein ... Continue Reading
Sprinting Biomechanics and the Myth of Triple Extension
“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” –Richard Feynman A very common notion in training athletes who ... Continue Reading
Everyone Can Learn From Mobility for Bone Jarring BMX
I got into riding at an early age. I was about eleven years old and a local neighborhood kid started to show me how to do wheelies and jump curbs on my bike, which wasn't even a BMX bike! But, I was ... Continue Reading
The Socioeconomics of Western Diets and Obesity
The U.S. is no longer alone in being concerned over the rising obesity rates. In 2013, Mexico's obesity rate surpassed the United States. Between 2013 and 2014, concern over obesity in India rose to the ... Continue Reading
This Protein May Keep You Lean on Any Diet
Recently, Gladstone Institute researchers have discovered an unlikely mechanism involved in the storage and utilization of body fat, called P75 neurotrophin. This protein might even reduce or eliminate the ... Continue Reading
Runner’s High May be an Evolutionary Adaptation
The benefits of physical activity and exercise on the human brain have been widely reported. In particular, it’s increasingly clear that aerobic activity has positive benefits on mood and cognition, even ... Continue Reading
Fitness in Youth May be a Predictor for ALS in Later Life
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and formally known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a specific disease that causes the death of neurons that control voluntary muscles. Symptoms of ... Continue Reading
Functional: Ban The “F-Word”
Where I live, we have a chain of “functional” gyms opening. Like most things in the fitness industry, it has all been done before. In this instance, it is circuit training, a program that was developed by ... Continue Reading
Regular Exercise Protects Against Occasional Over-Eating
Here come the Holidays, and many of us are looking forward to big family dinners, holiday parties, and special meals. It’s not just one day of indulging, it’s really a season. Lots of folks will enjoy at ... Continue Reading
Obesity, Appetite, and the PYY Hormone
By now it should come as no surprise that there exists a very serious worldwide obesity epidemic. After all, television’s hit show “The Biggest Loser” is centered around people whose weight has become a ... Continue Reading
Elite Athletes May Have Brains that Match Their Bodies
Recent evidence suggests that elite athletes tend to have faster, more efficient brains than non-athletes. Frontiers in Psychology published the results of the study, which was designed to investigate a ... Continue Reading
Soy-Dairy Protein Blends May Increase Muscle Mass
According to a recent study published by the Journal of Applied Physiology, consumption of a blend of soy and dairy proteins after resistance exercise is advantageous for building muscle mass. This ... Continue Reading
Drugs: It Ain’t Cheating If You Ain’t Competing
The term ‘image and performance enhancing drugs’ (IPEDs) is used to refer to substances that enhance muscle growth and reduce body fat, such as anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) human growth hormone ... Continue Reading
DVRT: How an Overlooked Tool Delivers Extraordinary Results
It took me a while to notice: this gym has no barbells. I was at J & D Fitness in Las Vegas, Nevada to interview Josh Henkin, the guy behind Dynamic Variable Resistance Training (DVRT) and the ... Continue Reading
Accepted Post Workout Protein Dosages May Be Too Low
In new research that is bound to create antipathy in some quarters, health and exercise scientists from Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence discovered there was no discernible difference in ... Continue Reading
Caffeine Can Reduce Muscle Soreness
Some of the most common questions coaches get from trainees are in regards to Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS), the muscle pain you get following a workout. Of particular interest is how to make it ... Continue Reading
Mobility Matters Every Day
If foam rolling and flossing is the extent of your mobility practice, we’ve got some work to do. It’s easy to brush off your mobility training for sexier things like lifting heavier or flooding Instagram ... Continue Reading
Scientists Seek Optimal Training & Diet Combo
Researchers focusing their attention on finding the path to simultaneously gaining muscle and losing fat have published a new study out of McMaster University1 This study sheds new light on the link ... Continue Reading
Canola Oil In Your Diet Reduces Abdominal Fat
A research study1 out of Penn State looked into the effects of canola and high-oleic-acid canola oils on abdominal fat mass in a diet administered over 4 weeks. The subjects were men and women between ... Continue Reading
A Yoga Legend And The Infamy of Million Dollar Sperm
Sometimes people don’t know when to stop. That may be the case of the man who has come to embody the worst of the “yoga industry,” Bikram Choudhury. Bikram was teaching in Japan in the 1970s. It was here ... Continue Reading
Soccer’s 2 Mile Sprints Are Brutal
The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) has a pay cap of just $37,800 per player. That's compared to an average of more than $300,000 for men's Major League Soccer. Furthermore, NWSL has a salary ceiling ... Continue Reading
