Fit Food Spotlight: Chicken
Fitness food explores the properties of a food that make it beneficial for not just your general health, but also your performance plate. Chicken might not be classified as a trendy superfood, but...
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Nutrition Considerations For Performance Gains
Weight loss and cutting calories tend to steal the limelight when it comes to information on how to best fuel your body for athletic success. However, not every athlete wants to lose weight. Many...
Fit Food Trend Predictions For 2020
With every new year comes new trends. In 2019, we saw the rise of cauliflower, oat milk and collagen powders, so what will 2020 bring to your diet? Here’s a look at what to expect in the 2020...
Fit Food Spotlight: Oats
Sure, there are many varieties of fancy, super grains that exist, but none have achieved quite the same fit food status as the humble oat. Oat is a variety of plant grown mostly for the edible...
Fit Food Spotlight: Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are not only a delicious fall-weather favorite, they are also a nutrient powerhouse filled with complex carbs to provide steady energy throughout the day and during workouts. Easy to...
Burn Extra Calories With Protein Pre-Workout
A new study published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition shows drinking a beverage with 25 grams of casein (a form of protein from milk) or whey before a morning...
5 Tips on Picking the Best Protein Powder For You
Choosing the best protein powder can seem daunting with thousands of options available. Sports nutrition and health companies are aware protein is becoming a priority nutrient and supplemental...
Fasted Workout Mistakes to Avoid
You’ve likely wondered whether or not you should eat before exercising first thing in the morning, and if there are notable benefits to doing “fasted” workouts. If your reason for avoiding...
The Athlete’s Diet Log: Carbohydrates
While the importance of carbohydrates is currently being challenged by many trendy diets, carbs are still king when it comes to the diet of an athlete. Carbohydrates are found in foods such as...
Fit Food Spotlight: Salmon
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS OF SALMON This fatty fish is one of the most nutritious foods around. Each 100-gram portion (roughly 3.5 ounces) contains about 232 calories, 25 grams of protein and 14.6...
How One Sports Nutritionist Stocks Her Kitchen
Reaching fitness goals takes serious effort, mostly in the areas of physical exertion and making the right food choices. The working out part is generally more straightforward than the nutrition...
Fit Food Spotlight: Dates
Dates are a nutrient-packed powerhouse perfect for fueling workouts and adding valuable nutrients to your day. The world of sports drinks, bars, gels, GUs and chews is vast with hundreds of options...
The Case For Using Phytonutrients to Fuel Your Training
Whether you’re a serious athlete or a weekend warrior, what you eat plays a vital role in how you perform. After all, your diet fuels your muscles and keeps you moving. You probably...
Are These 3 Trendy Juices Worth the Hype?
Sure, sipping a glass of juice is refreshing, tasty and provides some nutrients. But can it enhance your athletic performance, or is juice just another sugary beverage? Let’s explore a few of the...
5 Workout Scenarios Paired With an RD-Approved Fast-Casual Meal
In a perfect world, we would all be committed to making a homemade meal and sitting around the dining room table to enjoy our food without distraction. While that may be the ideal situation, it...
Pro Tips: Why We Should Eat Like an Elite Athlete
Professional and elite athletes do things differently when it comes to fueling their bodies. To be able to perform at the top level, it takes dedication to every facet of training: sleep, workouts,...
Ketone Drinks: Hype or Magic Supplement?
The ketogenic diet involves eating macronutrients that are skewed from the normal balance of roughly 50% carbohydrate, 20% protein and 30% fat to 70% fat, 20% protein and only 10% carbohydrate. Put...
Fit Food Spotlight: Avocado
While bananas might be the standard athlete food, the real fit-fruit winner might be the avocado. That’s right, those green ovals with the creamy flesh and a large seed are actually fruit. With...
Fit Food Spotlight: Bananas
Bananas have been a long-time favorite food in the diet of athletes and MyFitnessPal users. From toppings on pre-workout pancakes, stuffing for a nut butter sandwich, mix-ins for overnight oats...
How Athletes Should Choose the Right Sports Drink
Regardless of your athletic discipline or performance level, chances are you’ve reached for a sports drink during a training session or competition. These drinks are designed to give an exercising...
An Athlete’s Guide to Intuitive Eating
Intuitive eating is a dietary concept that promotes listening to your instincts and basically eating what and when you want. This eating style aims to put an end to dieting, restriction, labeling,...
How Athletes Can Cut Calories the Right Way
As athletes, we are usually concerned with getting enough calories to fuel our performance; however, there are times when it may be appropriate to cut back on what you’re eating. For example, you...
Logging Macros: Getting the Right Kind of Fat
When it comes to talking about what athletes should eat, carbohydrates and protein tend to steal all the attention. For good reason, those macronutrients are vital to providing energy for...
Why You’re Always Hungry, Tired or Both
Experiencing a late-afternoon energy crash, feeling ravenous hours after a hard workout or snacking into the night are all signs you may be too hungry. Feeling too hungry too often can lead to...
Logging Macros: Spreading Out Daily Protein
Carbohydrates typically steal the spotlight when it comes to fueling an athlete’s performance. However, protein is just as vital to an athlete’s health. While this macronutrient doesn’t...
How Identifying as an Athlete Changed My Relationship With Food
I’ve always been athletic, but it wasn’t until I defined myself as an athlete and connected my eating habits to my performance that I developed a healthy relationship with food. I’m sharing...
Fit Food Spotlight: Eggs
Oh the mighty egg. It is one of the most common, cost effective, protein rich, versatile foods. It also might be the most controversial food of all time. Throughout history, eggs have been either...
How Endurance Athletes Should Carb Up During Workouts
You’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again: Carbs help boost performance. But how much do they really help and which ones should you be choosing? Standard nutrition guidelines tell us to...
The Case For Watching Nut Butter Consumption
If you’re like most athletes, nut butters are a staple. You spread it on whole-grain toast, stir it into oats, blend it into smoothies, mix it with peppers for a savory sauce and probably even...
5 Fueling Mistakes Runners Need to Avoid
Whether you’re running to lose weight, get in shape or a little bit of both, pinning down a nutrition strategy can be tricky. Here are the most common mistakes runners make when it comes to...