What’s up Renegades? Jay here doing the intro to this guest post by my brother, Nate Miyaki. Nate always drops pure unadulterated dopeness, but this may be his greatest post ever.

Enter Nate…

*Warning – It is highly recommended that you listen to “Regulators” by Warren G and Nate Dogg before reading this article.

1. Because its a bad ass song.

2. So you understand all of the references.

Nate Dogg, where you been?

I’ve been chasing skirts out in the 4-1-5. Fool, you know how we do it.

Actually, I’ve just been busy as [...]

Right now Jen and I are both dialed in strictly with our diets because we have photo and video shoots coming up in the next few months.

That means no sugar, no gluten, no grains other than white rice, no nuts and nut butters, no seeds, no fats other than that from animals and coconut oil/milk and some ghee, and very minimal dairy.

However, we still eat dessert 3-5 nights a week.

When we have to be super strict I make some sort of pudding with coconut milk.

Coconut has incredible healing properties and [...]

What’s up guys?

I’m coming at you from St. Petersburg, Florida where I’ve spent the last few days.

Yesterday I had an awesome workout with Adam Bornstein and my long time good buddy, Craig Ballantyne at the Powerhouse Gym in downtown Tampa. It’s a pretty impressive facility and worth training at if you’re ever in town.

Before we trained Craig and I were having coffee (well, I was as Craig doesn’t drink coffee) and discussing a nutritional change that we both made that has us feeling significantly better. 

We’ve both cut out gluten [...]

What’s up guys? I’m coming at you from the Hyatt Regency in Denver where I’m getting read to go train with my buddy, Craig Ballantyne.

Then I will be meeting up with fitness icon, Shawn Phillips, for lunch.

I’m in town to do a charity toy drive on Saturday with Craig and about twenty others.

We’ll be buying thousands of toys to give to marines to distribute to local kids. If you’re in the area come by and hang out.

Last night Craig and I had an awesome steak dinner at Elway’s where we [...]

Man, I’ve really been on some grubbin’ streak lately.

It seems like every time I turn around over the last two weeks another one of my friends is in town wanting to meet up for dinner at one of LA’s finest restaurants.

While my wife is a five star chef and makes incredible meals each night it’s always nice to get out amongst the people, give the local females a thrill and order half the items on the menu.

Or in the case of a recent brunch at Post in Manhattan Beach with [...]

There’s a helluva a lotta cats out there addicted to pre-workout stimulants. Gotta be cranked for your workout; bouncing off the walls or ready to run through ‘em.

So you slug down a triple espresso and stack with it with some 3 Hour Energy Blaster, NO Explode-aria and whatever else they sell at the checkout counter of GNC. Anything short of an 8-ball of coke is fair game.

After twenty minutes or so it starts kicking in and you feel superhuman.

You’re no longer a guy who barely slept because you were stressed [...]

One of the most frequently asked nutrition questions I get is, “How many carbs should you eat per day to build muscle?”

Everyone always focuses on protein but if you want to get jacked carbs are crucial.

High fat and Paleo style eating can be great for getting lean but not for getting big.

That job requires some rice and potatoes.

Carb intake should be directly correlated to weekly training volume.

For example, let’s say Billy does an old school 5×5 routine twice per week because he believes that as a hardgainer that’s all the [...]