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For my entire athletic career, I considered the gold standard of recovery to be sleeping, resting on the couch watching T.V., and generally being still and inactive. Come on, what could be more effective than couch potato mode to recover from the hormonal and inflammatory stresses of marathon training runs or long days of extreme...

Today's fitness world can be confusing with a multitude of tools being thrown at you. The list is endless: supersests, drop sets, slow negatives, partial reps, and so on. The problem with the bombardment of information and subsequent bandwith overload is that it's easy to lose sight of what truly matters to make progress. An...

sf_foodphoto / GettyWHAT IS INTERMITTENT FASTING? Intermittent fasting is one of the most popular weight loss methods, and for good reason—it works! Many studies have shown that it has powerful effects for your body and brain, and it may even help you to live longer. Intermittent fasting is not actually a diet but rather described as...

In nutrition, there are very few universal consensuses. Conventional wisdom says that fat makes you fat and whole grains are essential, and millions of people agree, but the ancestral health and keto communities (and reality) disagree. Primal and keto folks don’t worry much about saturated fat and limit polyunsaturated fat; conventional health advocates do the...

We sit down with sprint coach Derek Hansen about his experience preparing athletes for the NFL Scouting Combine.This week on the Muscle and Fitness Podcast, M&F executive editor Zack Zeigler (@zraz) and celebrity trainer Don Saladino (@donsaladino) speak with sprint coach Derek Hansen about his experience preparing athletes for the NFL Scouting Combine. [RELATED1] ...

Courtesy XFLAre you a New York Guardian, or a Tampa Bay Viper? The XFL, the short-lived football league from the early 2000s, unveiled its first eight team names and logos on Wednesday as it prepares for its relaunch early next year.  Here’s the full list of teams.  Squad. #XFLTeams pic.twitter.com/Og4yKW07c4 — XFL (@xfl2020) August 21, 2019   “The XFL is...