Athletes and Supplements: Under More Scrutiny Than Ever Recently in professional sports, it has been widely reported that Milwaukee Brewer’s Ryan Braun and New York Yankee’s Alex Rodriguez are MLB’s top two targets for performance enhancing drugs. Performance-enhancing drugs are illegal substances used by athletes to improve their performances. Some athletes take a form of […]
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How to have more ENERGY and avoid FATIGUE with proper nutrition.
How to have more ENERGY and avoid FATIGUE with proper nutritionWhat do you say energy is? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ENERGY as: “a fundamental entity of nature that is transferred between parts of a system in the production of physical change within the system and usually regarded as the capacity for doing work.” So in […]
Do You Have a Phytonutrient Gap? That Stuff You Must Know Or Else!!
Do you have a Phytonutrient Gap? As a former college football All-American and now as an athletic trainer I get to see sports performance and physical health from both perspectives. Lets just say now I understand why my mom used to say, “Eat all of your vegetables!” She may not have known the specifics of […]
Nutrition Solutions for Knee and Joint Issues
May 3rd, 2013 Nutrition Solutions for Knee and Joint Issues Recently one of the athletes that I train was complaining of knee issues. He said that he felt discomfort in his knee and it was effecting his confidence. He said it gave him a lot of discomfort when he ran and did agilities. I asked […]