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Intermittent Fasting and Cycling: Benefits, Challenges, and Training Recommendations
In the realm of cycling, where endurance king and speed is queen, every cyclist is on a perpetual quest to optimize their training and nutrition to stay ahead of the pack. One such nutritional strategy that has been pedaling through the cycling community is Intermittent Fasting (IF). Bradley Wiggins, for example, used fastest training to…
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How to Make Your Own Energy Drink Mix for Cycling – A Cost-Effective and Customizable Option
Looking to make your own energy drink mix for cycling? Learn the basics of what goes into a good sports drink and how to customize your own mix.
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Exercise-Associated Cramping and Gusto Facial Reflex: How to Prevent and Ease Cramping
Cramping can be a painful and frustrating experience, especially for athletes and active individuals. Exercise-associated cramping (EAMC) is a common condition that can occur during or after physical activity, often in the legs, but also in other muscles throughout the body. While the exact causes of EAMC are still unclear, there are several theories and…
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Do Evening Cycling Workouts Do More Harm than Good?
For many cyclists, finding time to train during the day can be a struggle due to work, family, and other commitments. However, it is unclear how hard exercise in the evening affects our sleep quality and recovery. The body’s sleep and wake cycle follows a roughly 24-hour cycle called circadian rhythm, which is primarily influenced…
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Energy Balance and Your Body Weight
Energy balance and the effect on your body weight is the most important topic to understand whether your goal is to maintain, gain or lose body weight. Weight loss and weight gain are, in my opinion, are extremely simple topics that have been befuddled with pseudoscience, misinformation, and other bullcrap. I’ve heard it all: I’m…
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Carbohydrates are the Key to Better Performance while Cycling
Carbohydrates are a perpetual hot topic in the world of sports nutrition. These days, when it comes to carbs, most focus is on low carb weight loss strategies, as carb restriction can lead to favorable affects on body mass and composition independent of energy intake. When we are talking about performance while cycling, however, be…
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Eating Processed Foods Linked to Shorter Life Span
Instant noodles, breakfast cereal and chicken nuggets may be delicious, but they are also associated with an earlier death. Eating highly processed foods could shorten your life, a new study suggests. According to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine eating highly processed foods may shorten your life. The study tracked diet and health over eight…
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A Big New Diet Study Just Disproved Several Theories on Weight Loss
The DIETFITS study published today isn’t super surprising, get 600 people to eat more vegetables and less added sugar for a year and they’ll lose weight. What is interesting in the study are the takeaways regarding what doesn’t matter when dieting. The study, published today in JAMA Nutrition provides a few key takeaways: Low-carb and…
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Long-Term Coffee Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
An interesting article regarding long-term coffee consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease was just published in Circulation. The meta-analysis, which included 35 cohort studies and 1,283,685 participants, suggests that long-term coffee consumption (3 to 5 cups per day) is cardio-protective and reduces your risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Background – Considerable controversy exists regarding…
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No, Cutting Carbs Doesn’t Prevent Cancer
“This link between sugar and cancer has sweeping consequences,” wrote Johan Thevelein, a Belgian biologist and co-author of a study published in the journal Nature Communications. That study really made the media rounds this week and quickly anti-carb crusaders were allover the place claiming removing sugar and carbs from ones diet would prevent cancer. Not…
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One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Gym
“The perfect is the enemy of the good” In the fitness world I often see people fall victim to the Nirvana fallacy, in which people never even begin an important task because they feel reaching perfection is too hard. The fall victim to the idea that you must have the perfect equipment, the perfect routing,…
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Why You Get Muscle Cramps and What You Can Do About It
Muscle cramps sneak up on you suddenly. You might be sitting on the couch or 25 miles from home on your bike when one strikes, regardless of where you are or what you are doing a muscle cramp can be excruciatingly painful and hard to treat. Cramps can get in the way of fitness and…
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How to Stay Healthy and Fit as a New Dad
When you leave the hospital with a bottle of medication, it comes with a warning label or two; “Don’t operate a motor vehicle while taking this medication.” When you leave the hospital with a newborn, however, you’re handed a baby and told good luck. My daughter should have come with a long warning; “Probable side…
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5 Reasons Why You’re Not Making Gains In The Gym
Having trouble cultivating mass and your lifts are not progressing? You’re not alone. Despite best-laid plans and plenty of effort, most guys struggle in the weight room at some point. The following are five reasons why you may be lagging and having a hard time trying to change your body: Your Diet is Screwed Up…
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Beware Fuckarounditis – Because Fitness Really is Simple
Those of you who frequent the site know I spend some time over on Reddit. I was checking out some stuff on r/Fitness recently and I came across this Chest 101: An Anatomical Guide to Training post and I just sighed to myself and moved on. But later on I thought, this really is the…
