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For many years, Nature's Source has been committed to providing premium customer service. While working with our customers in our stores around Ontario, we have been approached with many common inquiries over the years. One of these common inquiry’s centres around fitness. Here, at Nature's Source, we sell numerous sport supplements, which often lead to our customers inquiring about improving their personal fitness goals, such...

Hundreds of research papers point to several nutritional strategies that can speed up post marathon recovery. They typically concern rehydration, glycogen resynthesis, and protein and antioxidant supplementation. These techniques replenish our muscle fuel supplies, hasten the repair of muscle damage, and combat free-radical formation in our cells. But the devil is in the details. You can pop vitamin pills, drink protein powder...

You always see the videos of hard-core training sessions. Throwing weights around, doing sprints, grunting, flexing… Ok, that last one isn’t very hard-core but you get the idea. But we rarely see what these people do to recover if anything. And I don’t care who you are, you can only train as hard as you recover, period. Behind every high-level athlete, performing...

Not to be confused with car insurance, BCAAs have claimed a solid position of repute among sports nutrition supplements. Available in both encapsulated and powdered form, BCAAs are surrounded with controversy and even a little bit of mystery as ongoing research continues. The following “ABCs of BCAAs” aims to provide some insight and clarity around this fiercely popular and widely used athletic...

So many women have a fear of weights. They have that stereotypical thought about body builders that lift weights = big and bulky. I beg to differ. I myself train like a body builder. For the majority of my training season I lift heavy. Considering I am a bikini competitor, I’m the furthest class from being a body builder! Especially for females,...

When asked how they exercise, people often report jogging, bicycling or walking. But what about weightlifting? Authorities say that picking up weights is not about winning a medal. Rather, as we age, strength exercises can help circumvent medical problems. Take if from Arnold Schwarzenegger, who famously remarked, “The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.” Call-Out: There’s a “Perfect Calcium”,...