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Can We Talk About Physique Goals Without Perpetuating Diet Culture?

Part 1. Aside from the personal benefits it gives me, I lift because I want muscles; I like working to increase my size, and I see strength training as a means to sculpt my physique. It’s an art form, a form of personal expression. Implicit in these goals is the pursuit of body composition. IContinue reading “Can We Talk About Physique Goals Without Perpetuating Diet Culture? “

Weekend Food Prep: Travel-Friendly Foods that Support Your Goals on a Road Trip

Warm weather, COVID vaccines and the wide open road! My spouse and I have decided that the safest way to enjoy summer travel this year is to keep to our car and explore the outdoor spaces in driving distance of our home. Lucky for us, we live in a beautiful part of the world! ButContinue reading “Weekend Food Prep: Travel-Friendly Foods that Support Your Goals on a Road Trip”

This is my “Why”

“Why do you do that?” The tone of incredulity was hard to miss. My mother, who I love very much and is, and has always been, very different from me, clearly could not fathom why I would want to learn to lift heavier weights. You see, I’d recently hired a personal trainer to teach meContinue reading “This is my “Why””

Weekend Food Prep: Neil’s Famous Chicken

I eat like a bro about 80% of the time–lots of chicken, brown rice, and oatmeal in the weekly mix! I also prefer to plan and prep the majority of my meals in advance. This weekend, I’m making a favorite chicken preparation, made “famous” by my dad, Neil. This marinade has a wonderful mix ofContinue reading “Weekend Food Prep: Neil’s Famous Chicken”

3 Thoughts: Iron Culture Podcast, episode 121, Achieving Nutritional Competence

Hundtoft-Bechdel score*: Gender neutral, leaning masculine 22:21 Omar says something along the lines of “when you know you need to change something but you don’t know what changes to make, science points you the way.” This, to me, is the point of evidence-based nutrition and fitness advice. No single study will tell us all theContinue reading “3 Thoughts: Iron Culture Podcast, episode 121, Achieving Nutritional Competence”