Carbohydrates: The Nutrient Everyone Loves To Hate
The topic of nutrition is a funny thing. It seems like everything changes on a day to day basis. One day it’s fine to eat 3 meals a day, the next day you must be eating 6 meals a day to maximize fat loss. One day the media reports that fat causes heart disease, the next day…
Nutrition Tips for the Holiday Season
With Thanksgiving approaching quickly, I wanted to dedicate a short article to providing a couple of nutrition tips to keep you on track. Holidays are one of the guaranteed times of the year where people seem to struggle sustaining their nutritional goals. With all the family gatherings and extreme amounts of food, it’s easy to see…
The Romanian Deadlift
Sounds like a torture device, right? Actually the Romanian Deadlift (RDL) is a fantastic exercise, and one I want to talk about a little more in depth today. Often, when you walk into a gym, most squat racks are empty. Except for the guys blasting out curls. This is the norm unfortunately. Many people do…
Nutritional Tips While Traveling
Nutrition seems to be the #1 struggle for people when attempting to lose weight. Rightly so. With all the sugar, fat, and other chemicals loaded into food these days it’s incredibly difficult to give that up for broccoli. But once a change is made, the benefits are seen quickly. You notice you aren’t as hungry…
Find the Problem, Fix the Problem
Once you begin changing the way your body looks, there are a lot of variables that factor into your success like exercise, nutrition, and sleep. Unfortunately these variables can also play a part in holding you back from achieving your ultimate goal. Each one can present unique problems that could stop you from seeing any changes. For instance,…
5 Fitness and Nutrition Myths
There are a lot of myths surrounding the fitness and nutrition industries these days. With all the information available on the internet and all the “studies” coming out, its no easy task sifting through it all to determine what’s right and what’s wrong. Unfortunately many truths, as claimed by the media and biased researchers, are…
The Most Underutilized Exercise
A lack of time is the most used excuse people give when they can’t make it to the gym. Does this sound like you? Days filled with meetings, doctor’s appointments, sales calls, and other important events often leave few spare minutes. It makes it seem impossible to be active. Well, I want to talk to…
The Benefits of Fish Oil
It’s Saturday afternoon. You have a bunch of errands to run and decide to make a quick stop into GNC. You heard on Dr. Oz that there’s a new fat loss supplement on the market getting people incredible results. You have seen claims saying all you have to do is take a pill. You can eat…
The Purpose of an Assessment
According to google, the definition of an assessment is “the evaluation or estimation of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something.” An assessment is typical in most industries today. If you take your car to an auto shop because your check engine light comes on, they will need to do a thorough assessment…
6 Tips to Maximize Your Gym Time
Everyone’s time is valuable, there’s no denying that. We go through each week trying to get as much work done as we possibly can, while still trying to find time to hang out with family and friends, catch a movie (or whatever your hobby is), workout, study subjects outside of work, etc. All of this…