Workout nutrition is an age-old debate with tons of bro-science and bodybuilding message boards to prove it. From carbing up to fasted cardio, protein shakes and pre-workout snacks, there are hundreds of ... Continue Reading
A Comprehensive Pegan Diet Guide and 7-Day Meal Plan
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition or the “perfect diet.” Ask 10 people on the street, “How should we eat?” And you’ll get 10 different answers—guaranteed. Nevertheless, if we simply ... Continue Reading
The Anthropological Argument About Carb Consumption
For many thousands of years, humans survived as hunter-gatherers. Only in the past several thousand, an evolutionary blink of the eye, have we shifted to a diet in which grain-based, high-carbohydrate, and ... Continue Reading
Simplicity Rules: Start Your Diet with Natural Food
In a previous article, I summarized the current state of scientific knowledge regarding individual carbohydrate tolerance. There is exciting, emerging research in this area, but from a clinician's point of ... Continue Reading
Behind the Diet Curtain
The “secret formula” to weight loss is no secret at all. Take in more calories than you expend, and you’ll gain weight. Burn more than you eat, and you’ll lose weight. This is known as calorie balance, and ... Continue Reading
Count Colors, Not Calories: 2 Recipes for a Colorful Plate
So many people are quick to point out the inadequacies of food pyramids. But only focusing on criticism is boring. Let’s ask a different question: what do we do about it? What is the one food change we can ... Continue Reading
How to Gain Weight on the Paleo Diet
When it comes to athletic performance and aesthetic endeavors like weight gain or lean muscle gain, a paleolithic template is not only doable, but preferable. Eating paleo isn’t just a weight-loss diet or ... Continue Reading
Beyond Food: The Real Meaning of Organic
The term “organic” has become more prevalent, even in the workout scene. People love the idea of minimalist workouts that are simple, raw, and in touch with real life. The idea that you can turn your home ... Continue Reading
Your Paleo Guide: Myths Versus Facts
Having been a trainer for fifteen years, I’ve seen a few diet fads and trends. And while the paleo diet, which has been around in various forms as early as the 1970s, has been hugely successful, I’m going ... Continue Reading
Strength and Nutrition: Smart Strength With Charles Staley
Note: Charles is here on a weekly basis to help you cut through the B.S. and get to the bottom of the biggest questions in health and training. Post your questions directly to Charles in the comments below ... Continue Reading
Living a 1940s Lifestyle to Build 21st Century Fitness
Many people discuss being paleo, but I only know a few who actually live a paleo lifestyle. Becca and Winslow Jenkins have multiple egg-laying hens and forage, hunt, and fish for food. Eric Frohardt hunts ... Continue Reading
7 Steps to Paleo Fitness: Why Exercise Is Not Enough
Do you know that high levels of activity alone do not cancel out the effects of sitting down for several hours a day? What can we do about this? Doing Little Often While the benefits of physical ... Continue Reading
2 Tasty Tidbits to Get Your Best Results From Paleo
The paleo diet has grown in popularity over the years due to its high success rates for weight loss and alleviating certain unwanted symptoms. But for every great testimonial we see, there is also someone ... Continue Reading
Foraging, Farming, and the Real Meaning of Paleo
I recently killed an animal for the first time in my life. It was not for fun. It was not by accident. It was for food. For some, food is fuel. For others, food is enjoyment. For most of us, food is ... Continue Reading
Why You’re Wrong and There’s Nothing Wrong With That
We’ve all been there. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. The Daily Mail. Somebody is wrong, and the urge to wade in is almost impossible to resist. In the same vein, prominent people in the health and ... Continue Reading
Dark Chocolate Cinnamon Frozen Bananas (Recipe)
Lately I've been paying closer attention to my food and working harder to minimize waste. I am also committed to saving money in a big way. Since I started buying more fresh produce, I find myself with ... Continue Reading
Paleo Chocolate Pumpkin Cake (Recipe)
I'll be honest. When I was putting together this recipe, my goal was a delicious dish full of pumpkin brownies. As it so happened, the result is a whole lot denser than the usual brownies I enjoy. So, cake ... Continue Reading
Microbiology Lessons From Paleolithic Coprolites
With the growing popularity of the paleo diet, we hear more questions about what an ancient human society would eat. A new method of answering this question was examined in a recent study published in PLOS ... Continue Reading
Re-Wild Your Plate: 3 Easy, Tasty Game Meat Recipes
The paleo diet is all the rage these days, and it’s catching on with athletes, in particular. Even U.S. soccer goalkeeper Tim Howard recently shared his paleo eating habits. My own family has been doing ... Continue Reading
A Paleo Primer: Benefits, Limitations, and Misconceptions
Kobe Bryant. Ray Allen. Amanda Beard. Nell Stephenson. Lolo Jones. That’s a diverse group of athletes, but they all have one thing in common: they all report eating a paleo diet for optimal health and ... Continue Reading
The Paleo f(x) Experience: Food, Fitness, and a Lot of Fun
In an article a few weeks back, Paleo f(x) co-founder Keith Norris described the event as “an experience in every sense of the term.” As I sit in the car on my way back home after three days at the event, ... Continue Reading
Breaking Muscle’s Paleo Holiday Wish List
EDITORS NOTE: We know how hard it is to gift shop, so we thought we would help you out with ideas. We know a lot of our readers follow a paleo or primal diet, and several of us at BMHQ do, too. So we put ... Continue Reading
Paleo Sweets: They Might Be “Healthy” But They Still Might Be a Bad Idea
Google the words paleo and dessert and your screen will instantly be filled with chocolately, coconutty deliciousness that I’m pretty sure was not appearing on the plates (or spears) of our cavemen ... 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
