Protein is an essential macronutrient composed of amino acids. There are nine essential amino acids that your body cannot synthesize so you must get them from the diet in order to build the proteins that your body needs. For athletes, protein is critical for recovery after workouts and muscle synthesis. Ideally, you should consume a mix of proteins and carbs…
As athletes, most of us know that calcium is important for bones but for many of us, that’s about where our bone mineral savvy ends. What you may not realize is blood calcium is very tightly regulated at 1% which means when dietary calcium is inadequate your body starts breaking down bone, the storage sight of calcium, to compensate. After…
One exception to the myriad benefits of hard training is that inherent and all too familiar foe: inflammation. Unfortunately, the more intense the training, the greater the level of inflammation accrued which bumps up your injury susceptibility. Essentially, inflammation is the body’s reaction to stress. Your body responds to stress by making cortisol, a catabolic hormone thus breaking down muscle…