The Top 5 Creatine Fears Exposed: Hair Loss, Kidneys, Bloating, and the Truth By Marcus Cole, Certified Personal Trainer | Workout Answers Creatine monohydrate is the most researched supplement in human history. We’re talking thousands of peer-reviewed studies, decades of real-world use by millions of people, and an overwhelming safety profile that would make most … Read more
How Much Protein Do You Really Need? The 30g-Per-Meal Myth Is Finally Dead By Marcus Cole | Workout Answers I’ve said it in client consultations probably a thousand times: “Your body can only use about 30 grams of protein per meal. Anything more is just wasted.” I was wrong. We all were. For nearly two … Read more
I’ve been coaching clients for over 15 years. In that time, I’ve heard every excuse for stalled progress imaginable. But one pattern kept showing up again and again: people were wildly off on their protein intake. Kitchen scale protein tracking…
Three years ago, I had a client — a 38-year-old former college linebacker named Marcus — who hit a wall. Hard. His squat had stalled at 315 pounds for six straight weeks. His bench wasn’t moving. He was sleeping well,…
I spent two years paying a personal trainer $75 an hour before I finally started asking the questions that actually mattered — not how to lift, but what I was putting in my body and why. One of the biggest rabbit holes I fell into was standing in the supplement aisle (and, yes, scrolling Amazon … Read more
I used to stay up until 2am watching YouTube fitness videos, taking notes in a beat-up spiral notebook like I was cramming for an exam — which, honestly, I kind of was. But for all those hours I spent obsessing over training splits, macros, and recovery protocols, one thing kept tripping me up in real … Read more
The first time I tried to train for a 5K, I went out too hard on day one, pulled something in my calf, and was off my feet for two weeks. Classic beginner mistake — and I made every one of them, including throwing money at supplements I knew nothing about while ignoring the one … Read more
When I was cutting weight for wrestling in high school, I thought I understood nutrition. Spoiler: I knew absolutely nothing. I was surviving on iceberg lettuce and blind confidence, and the moment I started lifting seriously a few years later, I swung hard in the other direction — convinced I had to slam a protein … Read more
Playing college intramural basketball, I was the slowest guy on the court and I knew it — and that’s what sent me to the gym at 6am three days a week trying to fix it. What I didn’t know then was that I was sabotaging half those sessions before they even started, either showing up … Read more