By Nate Winkler There are few days in the year more important than ‘Game Day’ for athletes, if any.  Every month away from season is spent preparing, training, dieting, and dreaming of what will happen next season, when all the hard work culminates in dominating performances.  Making all that pain, practice and sacrifice worth it [...]

You’ve been killin’ it. Eating well and training smart, and you can feel your body changing. A couple of weeks go by and some sneaky thoughts start to weasel their way into your brain, all prefaced with those four dirty little words of “I’ve been so good…”  I’ve been so good that I deserve this [...]

There are great articles out there promising people major fat loss by making minor changes, but no real results ever happen. Why? No one is addressing the actual cause of fat gain/loss: poor hormone management. Adopting a training and nutritional program that works synergistically to reeducate your hormones will improve everything about your performance, physique, [...]

The most overlooked and misunderstood aspect of max effort lifting is nutrition. What you eat and when you eat it can impact your ability to express your strength more than any other variable. Subtle changes in your diet will allow you to pull, press, and push more than ever, and I’m gonna explain them. Many [...]

In Part 2 of the Team Juggernaut Roundtable discussion, Chad Wesley Smith, Brandon Lilly, Brad Little and Ryan Brown of Team Juggernaut, along with Mike Tuchscherer, Jim Laird and Corey Hayes discuss how to promote proper recovery through well managed training, proper nutrition and utilizing various recovery modalities. Watch, Learn and SHARE…

Where are you getting it wrong? Webster’s defines explode as a verb; meaning to expand with force, to burst, as dynamite. In sports, being explosive is really just the quality of being able to generate great power over a short time frame. ‘Explosive’, is becoming one of those catch phrases that everyone is hearing and [...]

I’m giving a nutrition and training seminar at Train Strength Barbell in Salt Lake City, UT on Saturday, November 10th from 10am – 1pm to raise money for the Utah Food Bank. This seminar is geared towards women, however anybody is welcome to attend! I’ll be discussing nutrition, both for physique & performance, along with [...]

Check out the best training advice ever received by Team Juggernaut and Juggernaut’s fans and readers on Facebook and Twitter Mick Manley-“It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.”-Rick Hussey Mark Anderson-Eat Brad Little-Don’t over think things and always poop before heavy pulls. Ed Stedman-Be consistent Alan Kissick-Don’t listen to training advice Julian Muron-Stop [...]

By Nate Winkler Juggernaut selected 20 beta testers for our 40 Hour Fat Loss program that begins this week. Participants across America and Europe are taking part in the program we’ve developed over the past year to help working people achieve the body they’ve always wanted. As always, there were a number of questions that began to [...]

Don’t we all wish that we could go back in time and do some things differently? Take note of these lessons in training, business and life that Team Juggernaut members wish they could teach to a 5 year younger version of themselves…   Chad Wesley Smith, Read His Training Log Here I have gained such [...]

Working with clients across all backgrounds, body-types, and budgets over the last few years exposed 2 common issues: the need for more time and less fat. These observations aren’t new, we all have them, but the program I have developed to solve these problems will allow you to eat better, train smarter, maximize your fat [...]

Nutrition is a critical component of any athlete’s diet, whether your goals are performance, physique or both, you must properly fuel your body. In late June, I competed in Connecticut at the Europa Strongman show and weighed in at 337 (though I think I was closer to 332 without my shoes on, stuff in my [...]

By Brandon Lilly  I am not writing out a diet guideline that I follow just yet because as this article will disclose, I know that 98% of the people who read what I do for diet would read it and never put it to use. So I’m gonna cover this first. If I told you [...]

Eileen Marcinkewicz is quickly becoming a well known name in the fitness industry. Eileen writes for Muscular Development (Latino) and is the newest member of the Optimum Nutrition Team. Besides being a top level NPC Figure competitor, Eileen also works full time, in addition to being a loving mom to her 2.5 year old son. [...]

Think of  improving your performance as a pie chart, comprised of 40% Training, 40% Nutrition and 20% Recovery. Juggernaut strives to provide you with the highest quality products and training science to help you reach your goals. The Juggernaut ‘Performance Training Manual’ provides you with Juggernaut’s most comprehensive articles to allow you to increase the [...]

This is the final part of the interviews with Naturopathic physician Dr. Torrey Gorla. In the previous interviews we introduced many of the misconceptions with what is considered healthy in Western culture and what needs to be changed. In this article we will conclude our interview with Dr. Gorla and take it one step further, how to [...]

By Nate Winkler In Part I of the ‘Everyman Series’ I introduced the idea that there are some holes in the accepted approach to being ‘healthy’. This is the second part in my interviews with Dr. Torrey Gorla, a Naturopathic doctor that integrates Eastern and Western Medical approaches into his practices. Many times, people realize [...]

An Expert In Mass Gain At Juggernaut, I have the great opportunity to work with athletes from junior high through the pros and one of the most common goals shared by my younger athletes is, I need to gain weight. I consider myself to be an expert mass gainer, at the age of 14, a [...]

By Nate Winkler Concluding my first eight years of nutritional research I came to one conclusion: something’s not right. When I played two sports in college, I received training and nutrition advice from a world record holder in power lifting who had years of experience with athletes. Since that time the power lifter (who will [...]

Consistency is king, right? Everyone knows that some things work better than others, but no matter what, if you workout more, and eat healthy foods then you will lose fat, get more ‘ripped’, and increase your strength. What if I told you that all your hard work, dedication, time, and effort are being wasted because [...]