Master Your Fitness Game: In-Depth Gear Guides and Workout Tips by TuffWraps

Unlock the Benefits of Macronutrient Tracking for Weight Loss on a Budget

Are you looking to lose weight and get in shape? Tracking your macros can be a game-changer in achieving your fitness goals. Macros, short for macronutrients, comprise our diet's three primary nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. By understanding and tracking your macros, you can optimize your nutrition and make progress toward your weight loss goals.

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Ready to Bulk Up? - How Skinny People can Develop a Powerful Physique

Some folks just naturally tend to be skinny, and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, you may like the lean and slim look.

However, if you are interested in building a more muscular physique, then there are safe and effective ways for you to bulk up. While it takes some time and effort, you can put on some real muscle weight by adhering to a proper diet, getting a sufficient amount of sleep regularly, and performing the right kinds of workouts.

This article will discuss in-depth what you should do to bulk up. But first, let's discuss 3 common mistakes that bodybuilding novices make.

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Magnesium: Are you getting enough to power your workouts?

Unlike the main macronutrients carbohydrate, fat, and protein, magnesium doesn’t get a whole lot of attention. Perhaps this is because many people are unaware of the role magnesium plays in nearly every biological process. In fact, magnesium is involved in over 600 hundred chemical reactions in the body responsible for:

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Branch-chain amino acids: Should You Take Them?

If you are at all involved in the fitness community, you have probably heard something about branch-chain amino acids (BCAAs). You may know they are essential for muscle building and part of any well-rounded supplement regimen. While it is true that they can help with muscle building, some of the hype surrounding taking a BCAA supplement may be just that, hype. So, let’s take a look at BCAAs and why you need them or why you don’t.

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Need a Boost in Your Performance?

Check out Nootropics; the buzz worthy supplement which is said to improve brain function and athletic performance.

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Intermittent Fasting for Athletes

Intermittent fasting (IF) is a pattern of eating that focuses on the timing of meals and alternates between periods of eating and periods of short-term fasting. Fasting periods may last for several hours up to several days. Instead of focusing on which foods to eat, you’ll focus on when to eat if you try intermittent fasting.

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Healthy Eating for the 4th of July

Watching what you eat on this 4th of July doesn’t have to be stressful or make you feel deprived – here are some tips to help you stay in control and enjoy the celebrations.

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Is the Ketogenic Diet Good for Athletes?

The ketogenic diet is definitely the current popular fad diet, made famous by many celebrities who tout its benefits. Several athletes have also jumped on board the ketogenic diet train with the intention of improving their athletic performance, but is it a good diet to support athletic performance?

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Post Workout Nutrition Dos and Don’ts

There is a lot of contradictory information about post workout nutrition. A lot of nutrition “coaches” never really read medical research or pay attention to the details that might maximize a client’s ability to achieve their body composition goals. This list cuts through the fat ( no pun intended) and gives you the bottom line on what to eat and what to avoid after training.

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Common Nutrition Mistakes You Are Making Around Your Training Window (Part 1)

Anyone with a little common sense and a decent amount of training experience knows that workout nutrition does not have to be that complicated.

Unfortunately, we have been force fed ( no pun intended), lots of contradicting information from uninformed individuals and sports nutrition marketers.

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The Science of Gains: Supplementing with Creatine

Creatine just might be the worlds most popular supplement, but is it worth its weight? Scientific research and practical results say so. For the performance athlete, creatine is almost unparalleled in efficacy when it comes to short-range bursts of high energy for the power athlete.

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Carbs: Friends, Not Foe

Carbs are the most bullied group on the food pyramid, no thanks to popular diets such as the Atkins and Paleo. Although these regiments have their respective merits, they've also helped construe a dark image of carbohydrates in which dieters have increasingly become fearful of carbohydrates and erroneously come to believe that carbs are what make them fat.

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