A few easy dieting strategies can make a big difference in your recovery, strength, and—most of all— how you look.

Nothing is bad for us, per se. What we have to do is figure out how much we need, and then supply it in the correct amounts. But to villainize sugar, carbs, fats, and other nutrients is a gross miscarriage of judgment.

There is so much information about nutrition that it can be overwhelming. Rather than getting caught in that swamp, I suggest you stop reading and start dieting with some basic knowledge. I’ll provide the info, but you’ll have to do the rest.

Here are three timing principles that I use with my clients and feel strongly will allow almost anyone to ingest carbs and get leaner.

This is a practical example of exactly what I ate during the sixth week before hitting the contest stage. Why is this important to you? Because it pushes right up to that life sucks and I hate dieting threshold.

Intelligently consume this main energy source as a means to a better bulking season.

Losing fat and gaining muscle isn’t as simple as low carbs and high carbs. This list will serve as your guide to the best fat-incinerating carbohydrates you need in your diet.

Peri-workout nutrition experts Justin Harris, Ben Hartman, and Scott Stevenson, give you the insight you need to understand and create your own protocol.

How I went from chubby powerlifter to shredded bodybuilder.

Reanalyze these four components of food metabolism to customize your food intake.

Broaden your low-carb dieting horizons.

Seven things to consider when going to that dark and lonely place called dieting.

Find out why Skip got banned from Kroger (and it has nothing to do with an inappropriate toe-tapping incident in the men’s room stalls).

Straightforward diet and training fixes approved by Coach X.

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Carbohydrates is a word that strikes fear in many dieters in America.