Jaron ​Williams

The other day, a good friend asked me to write about the validity of "eating clean" and if all food is equal when it comes to fitness. The reason for his question is you always hear about fit people who only eat oatmeal and broccoli but on the other hand have stories of elite athletes eating burgers or chicken nuggets while training. What's the deal? First, we have to define what "clean eating" even means. For the purposes of this post, we'll just go with only eating whole fo

Now this is a story all about how My carbs got flipped and cycled around And I'd like to take a minute just sit for a while I'll tell you how you to begin your very own carb cycle style. So now that we've established I should get a fitness Grammy, or at least my own TV show, let's talk about this carb cycling thing and how I got mixed up in it. Let's rewind the clock to my early serious fitness days. I had been learning more effective workout techniques as well as more on str

So I notice there is a lot of misinformation and confusion about nutrition and what to eat and how to eat it, where to eat it, who to eat it with, and what to wear when you're eating it... Unfortunately, I can't help with ALL of that - personal trainers usually don't win awards for fashion sense - but I CAN break down your diet breakdown :) This is the beginning of a three-part series explaining the macronutrients. Now, you might have heard one of your gym friends talking abo

Most people know that, in general, if you want to lose weight, you're going to have to eat less - and at that, eat less junk food and more whole foods. If weight loss is a function of how many calories you consume versus how many calories you expend, it makes sense to simply eat less and exercise more, right? The big problem with all this is, as humans who don't have built-in calorie calculators, we have a tendency to underestimate how much we eat and overestimate how much we