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6 Ways To Improve Your Protein Intake
Protein. The literal building block of muscles. Yet, it’s so much more than that. Protein, one of the body’s three macronutrients, is required for many of your body’s physiological and metabolic processes including: Cellular and tissue repair Muscle growth Enzymes Nutrient Transport Hormones Due to its importance, it’s necessary to...

The Best Supplements For Runners and Endurance Athletes
Running is all about endurance and sustaining your performance over the course of an hour, two hours, three hours, or longer. Unlike high-intensity training, long-distance running and endurance is complemented with a completely different mindset and require different nutrients to efficiently fuel your body over a prolonged period of time....

3 Simple Ways to Start Optimizing Your Performance
In our culture, we are taught that our value is identified by our level of success and achievement – usually our level of financial success. It’s an old idea, leftover from earlier days, but it still lingers. It’s the underlying assumption that you have to put work and your career before...

Achieving True Peak Natural Performance
Our culture is inundated with messages about success and achievement—and all of them perpetuate the same myth: that we need the latest tip or find the latest shortcut to achieve success.It’s the subtext in all the magazines, all the advertisements, all over social media and on TV: to reach your...

Refeeds & Diet Breaks: Eating More Helps Your Metabolism & Makes Weight Loss Sustainable
Successfully losing weight and keeping it off is arguably one of the greatest challenges you can experience as an athlete. On top of having to reduce food, your body does everything it can to hold on to body fat, despite your efforts. But research suggests that using refeeds or breaks...

The Story Behind Our Sustainably Sourced Grass-Fed Whey Protein Isolate & Colostrum Ingredients
“Natural and Sustainably sourced ingredients.” If you’ve been following PNP Supplements for a while, you’ve probably heard us mention that we’re switching to “all-natural” and whenever possible “sustainably sourced ingredients” in our supplements. But what does that mean, exactly? In short, it means we care about where our ingredients come...

Probiotics: What Are They and What Do They Do
There are ten times more bacteria in your body than cells. The majority of these bacteria live in your gut, and for the most part, are fairly harmless. Good gut bacteria can even have a number of health benefits, these include weight loss, improved digestion, enhanced immune function, and a...

3 Tips for Cultivating Better Relationships
Psychologists have found that one of the most important determinants of happiness is the quality of relationships in our lives. How fulfilled we feel by our connections to other people determines so much about how fulfilled we feel about life in general. Those connections might include our partner, our close...

The Best 6 Vitamins for a Healthy Immune System
A healthy immune system is at the front of everyone’s mind right now, but how we support a healthy immune system is complicated with all of the information out there. When it comes to overall health, a well-balanced diet filled with whole, nutrient-rich foods ensures we are creating as little...

Bodyweight Training: How To Make The Most Of Your Workout At Home
With gyms and Crossfit boxes closing around the world, the need for other ways to maintain and improve physical fitness has never been more critical. Unfortunately, most equipment is expensive and challenging to store. As a result, you've probably considered that bodyweight exercise may be the right answer. However, bodyweight...

Goal Setting Strategies That Work
With the decade ending, we know you’re probably reflecting on your accomplishments over the past year and decade, as well as looking ahead and setting new goals and intentions for 2020. We want to help you reach those goals by helping you utilize some of the best strategies in the...

CrossFit Competition Fueling Guide
With the introduction of the CrossFit Sanctionals last season, CrossFit competitions are more popular than ever and easier to find and compete at than ever before. Competing at a CrossFit competition is a great way to not only challenge yourself but to spend time with and meet new friends and...