If you’ve been following along with this series about the best supplements for your sport, you might be wondering why we haven’t mentioned ice hockey. Our home base is in Canada, isn’t it? Yes, indeed it is, and you don’t have to wait any longer because now we’re going to talk about the sport that’s most associated with Canada – ice hockey!
Pre-workout supplements are different than staple sports supplements like protein powders and BCAAs. They are combination products with no specific recipe or formula. Let’s do a deep dive into pre-workout supplements and answer these common questions.
You would be hard-pressed to find a jacked gym-bro who doesn’t rave about using a creatine supplement. Next to protein shakes, creatine is the most popular sports supplement on the market, but popular doesn’t always mean effective. With new supplements popping up all the time, how do you know what’s scientifically proven and what’s a fad?
There’s growing awareness around mindfulness, meditation, and the benefits of being present. We realize wellness is about more than just natural supplements and exercising. Apps like Headspace and Calm make it easier than ever to harness your inner Tibetan monk and improve your life, but you don’t have to sit cross-legged on the floor and chant “om” to practice mindfulness. We’re breaking down three different ways you can practice mindfulness every day.
Glutamine is a conditionally essential amino acid with many functions in the body. Most people know amino acids as building blocks for proteins, which make up the structures in the body. However, amino acids serve other functions and are involved in the body’s immunity because they transport substances in the blood and help fight off harmful microbes.
Hormones are involved in far more processes than puberty and sex drive. While chromosomes from dad’s sperm determined whether you were assigned male or female at birth, sex hormones are responsible for the significant differences between men’s and women’s anatomy and even the way their brains function.
Supplements are an excellent way to leverage your workouts and nutrition in a way that takes you from point A, where you are now, to point B, where you want to be, in the quickest way possible. From EAAs to protein, many of the supplements we recommend can benefit any fitness goal, but slightly tweaking how you use your supplements can best benefit the endurance athlete. Let us show you how.
You can use sports supplements to achieve a variety of fitness-related goals. Most people are interested in losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight. However, if you’re slender and small, you might be interested in hitting the gym to gain weight and build muscle and strength.
Hormones get a bad rep. They’re typically blamed, at least in some capacity, for bad moods, low energy, acne, and all sorts of other minor ailments we experience. However, few people understand hormones and why they are, at least sometimes, the problem.
When you enter a fitness setting—be it a gym, a yoga studio, or any other area where people come to exercise—you may notice a common theme. You’ll likely see beginners who are trying to build lasting wellness habits, and at the opposite end of the spectrum, you’ll see the intense, extremely fit (looking) individuals. Somewhere in the middle, you will find people who probably teeter between intense fitness phases and not working out at all.
