Many athletes start their day off with a cup of yogurt. While this can be good, it’s often not as good as many think. Not all yogurts are created equal. Let’s explore why.
MMA Diet: Yogurt
MMA Nutrition, Diet Plans, Supplements, Protein, Carbs, Eating Right
MMA Diet: Rudog Edition
In July 2010 I wrote this short profile piece about Rudog Nutrition because I felt they were on to something major. The MMA nutrition field was evolving, but fighters didn’t have many sources to turn to other than expensive nutritionists that were clueless about MMA or the supplement industry ...
Breakfast Egg White Pancakes
Jordan Cieciwa and professional MMA fighter, Krzysztof Soszynski, allow us a peek into the kitchen to prepare Krzyszof's breakfast egg white pancakes.
MMA Diet: Fuel the Fighter
P.R. Cole developed Fuel the Fighter . She’s worked with Kenny Florian, Jorge Gurgel, Shawn Tompkins, Frank Trigg, Nate Marquardt and a host of other MMA athletes. Among her services, P.R. offers Sports Nutrition, Weight Management, Medical Nutrition Therapy and even Supermarket Tours. Fuel the Fight...
MMA Diet: Martin Rooney Edition
A list of Martin Rooney’s academic and fitness credentials do not begin to show the impact this man has had on the field of strength and conditioning as it relates to MMA athletes.
MMA Diet: Vitamin D
This article will be a bit shorter and sweeter than the others primarily because information about vitamin D is simply everywhere, and the vast majority of it is quite accurate because vitamin D is not a “drug” or “supplement” owned or marketed by a company who can hype, exag...
MMA Diet: Nitric Oxide
Increase your muscular endurance, size, pumps, strength, vascularity, mental focus, power, fat-burning capabilities, recovery times, workload and performance. I kid you not (although nitric oxide is often referred to as laughing gas, laughing gas is actually nitrous oxide), a single supplement, nitr...
MMA Diet: Caffeine
Most of us know caffeine as the stuff in coffee that gives us a morning boost. It’s estimated that 80% of us drink coffee regularly. But according to the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) caffeine is the world’s most commonly used drug, according to Vanderbilt Unive...
MMA Diet: Paleo
Whether you call it the Caveman Diet, the hunter-gatherer diet, the Diet of our Ancestors or the Paleo Diet - one thing is for sure: It’s hot right now. Many believe the concept of this diet was first popularized sometime around 1975 by a gastroenterologist named Walter L. Voegtlin. But it'...
MMA Diet: Cutting Weight
Cutting weight in MMA is like sexual intercourse - it’s going to happen. Those in the MMA nutrition field who, in their vehement tirades against the act, do not educate those on what can happen and why they are no different than those who promote the ineffective and detrimental abstinence-only...
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