How Does Creatine Supplementation Work? blog workout nutrition Mar 06, 2023

How Does Supplementing with Creatine work?

Let’s use a simple analogy to explain the overall gist before getting into specifics.

You can think of supplementing with creatine just like you would think about watering a plant

Let’s say you planted basil seeds in a pot in your...

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How to Optimize Your Post-Workout Meal for Maximum Recovery blog lifestyle tips workout nutrition Jun 24, 2021

The primary goals of your post-workout meal are to:

  • calm the nervous system AKA stress response from training
  • get into a parasympathetic state (rest and digest mode)
  • kick start the recovery process
  • stimulate protein synthesis (making new proteins) and avoid a catabolic state (break down)

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How Much Protein Should I Eat? blog fat loss lifestyle tips workout nutrition Aug 15, 2020

I get this question ALL the time:

How much protein should I be eating?

Well, the cool thing about protein is that no matter what 'type of diet' you are following (unless it's a low-protein diet which I personally wouldn't recommend to anyone unless there was a certain medical reason for it),...

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Pre-Workout Meal 💪🏻 blog lifestyle meal prep recipes workout nutrition Jul 15, 2019

I’ve been incorporating more ‘carb-ups’ and more of a targeted ketogenic diet (TKD) approach lately and my body is lovin’ it! Remember, Keto is a metabolic state NOT a food.

Carbs are not essential but they most definitely can (and in some cases SHOULD) be used...

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