by Ben | Aug 16, 2017 | Articles
Say you have a fasting blood sugar of 85 mg/dL. No human on this planet can think intuitively about this number letter vomit. 85 mg/dL equals 0.85 grams per liter and the average human contains about 5 liters of blood. Therefore, if your fasting blood sugar is sitting...
by Ben | Jun 25, 2017 | Articles
What is the most Spartan environment in the US? Football. The number of high school players is well over one million. The number of D1 college football players is around 12,500. Thus, a high school player has a 1.15% shot of playing D1 ball. If you compare high school...
by Ben | Feb 28, 2017 | Articles
I am sorry. I cannot stay quiet. Some people come to this field very rigid and unmoving in their beliefs. I have taught hundreds of them, if not thousands. Also, I was one. In my early 20s, I had it. I knew the way. I know this mind. This mind seeks to control...
by Ben | Feb 5, 2017 | Articles
If you are a coach and you work with high-intensity team sports you need to read Carbohydrate Nutrition and Team Sport Performance. If you are an athlete who plays any of the sports below you need to read this paper. The best part is – it’s free. That...
by Ben | Jan 22, 2017 | Articles
The problem with metabolic wards is well…they are metabolic wards, but as an athlete would you pay $3,000 dollars a month to live in the Costa Rican Rain Forest, eat organic locally sourced meals prepared for you fresh every day, train four times week, and be...
by Ben | Jan 19, 2017 | Articles
Many people may think I have put out a lot of Carb-PRO posts of late. But these aren’t really Carb-PRO pieces, they are just not ANTI-Carb. I despise the demonification and fear mongering of macronutrients or foods. It’s just not helpful. We must seek first to...
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