One of the biggest  myths in the fitness world is that carbohydrates make you fat; I swear, one of the most common questions that you could get as a nutritional expert is “are carbohydrates bad?”  First off, you try to explain to them that they don’t make you fat.  Then they end up not listening to you and just want to question everything.   Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most common questions that you get is “how do you gain muscle and lose fat?”  If there was a way you could do both at the same time, you would be multi-tasking more or less.  It seems much better than just losing fat but not being able to put on muscle at the same time, right? Read the rest of this entry »

If you ask most bodybuilders to write down their daily diet and supplement regimen you will most likely get a detailed account of when every gram of protein is eaten and when every supplement is taken to feed the muscle. Most serious lifters are meticulous about precisely timing every nutrient to make sure that their body will build muscle and not have to go a second without the nutrients it needs. Read the rest of this entry »

Many people are starting to grow curious about some of the intermittent fasting bodybuilding diet protocols that are starting to be used. In some cases, your decision to adopt such an approach to your diet is due to the fact that you run a busy lifestyle and don’t have time to spend cooking numerous meals each day and sitting down to eat them. Read the rest of this entry »

In my last article I presented the scientific research pertaining to the metabolic state of ketosis. While in the state of ketosis we come to realize that it is the optimal metabolic state to activate the breakdown of dietary/stored fat. This is one of the greatest benefits of dieting while using the Ketogenic bodybuilding dieting route. Read the rest of this entry »

Every bodybuilder wants to gain muscle and lose fat. Unfortunately, in their zeal to get big many bodybuilders overeat and end up big alright, big and fat.  Some bodybuilders seem to go from training for a bodybuilding contest to training for an eating contest once their season is over. Obviously, this is not a recipe for success.  If you really want to win your next show, the time to do it is in the offseason.   Read the rest of this entry »

Leucine is not the most common word thrown around to beginners in fitness and bodybuilding.  If you ask anyone what l-leucine is, you can bet that they will not be familiar with it.  This is where we come into play to explain this “anabolic trigger.”  Protein synthesis is a term you may see often when you read articles dealing with building muscle. But what is it? Quite simply, it is the synthesis of new skeletal muscle proteins. Read the rest of this entry »

A perennial question, argument and debate in the field of nutrition has to do with how many carbohydrates people should be eating. While the nutritional mainstream is still more or less advocating a large amount of daily carbohydrate (with fat being blamed for the health problems of the modern world), groups often considered Read the rest of this entry »

The issue of meal frequency for muscle mass gains would seem to be pretty well decided, right? Bodybuilders have been pushing for 6 (or more) meals per day spread out every 2.5-3 hours for decades and this is taken as an almost de-facto requirement for success in terms of optimal mass gains. Read the rest of this entry »

“Coach Hale why are you so skeptical?” “Why do you have such a negative view of the fitness industry?” “You are so cynical.” I hear these types of questions and statements on a weekly basis. Read the rest of this entry »