Nutrition has its fair share of myths out there, and despite tons of research, protein myths abound. My buddy Lou Schuler calls these “Zombie Myths” since they just never seem to die. As a lifting meathead (term of endearment), I know you get many questions on...
By now, you know that in addition to my passion for all things exercise, nutrition, and human physiology overall, I love dark coffee (this AM was Bonefrog coffee), dark beer (last night was Guinness Coffee nitro), and dark metal music. Oh ya! This past week was the...
I got the following question the other day from a student in the Flex Diet Mentorship program: “Is sleep much like nutrition in that, as long as we get the optimal amounts in this case of macros and micros, over time we’re all good, or with sleeping, there is a...
Time flies, even during hard times. 8 years ago, almost to the day, I did my PhD Defense . . . . . . and passed. To say that I was sweating bullets about it is an understatement. The overall PhD process from when I started through class work, teaching, lab assistant,...
I am getting ready to go do some squats and some Saxon bar pinch grip work. Saxon what? It is a long, metal 2×6-looking thing that you can add weight to on the ends. You use a pinch grip where your thumb and fingers are extended (straight). It has a huge transfer...
Yes, cardio! The pendulum swings hard from one side to the next in the blink of an eye in the fitness world. My prediction is that doing cardio will be the thing for all lifters. For a while, cardio was frowned upon as it was the king destructor of gainZ, and even...
