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Welcome to the Weight Buffet: How to Fuel Up for your Workout
Welcome to the Weight Buffet: How to Fuel Up for your Workout If the weights ever feel heavy after your warmup sets or you find yourself coming out of the gate too hard during the would you’re not alone. Rather than crumple into a pile of gasps and sweat maybe you should consider fueling up ...
Don’t Get Spoiled By Fresh Vegetables
Most people tend to rationalize their way through their nutritional decisions without much hard science (let’s face it usually no science) to back it up. When it comes to fruit and vegetable intake this is no exception. Many folks skip out on canned or frozen veggies counting them out as “nutritionally void”. It turns out ...
5 Tips to Help You Change with the Season
As the weather turns colder, many of us tend to let our health and fitness routines take the back burner for a few months. Whether you are feeling rundown or beat up from two CrossFit Open cycles in one year or just trying to escape the holiday season without eating too much pie. It is ...
Make Your Breakfast 10% Better
You’ve heard it before. “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” It’s become cliche. And like so many aphorisms you lose an important message when you overlook it. A healthy breakfast can support your physical and mental performance. If you are trying to excel, grow, and make changes to your body or in ...
Top 3 Tips to Maximize Your Deadlifts
People tend to have polarized feelings about deadlifts. Either they love them or they hate them. If you love deadlifts this is usually for one of three potential reasons. You already pull heavy weight. You are considered “strong” or “really good at that” so you enjoy doing it more. Yay dopamine! Maybe you are favorably ...
Debunking 3 Big Stretching Myths
Debunking 3 Big Stretching Myths Stretching is one of the most misunderstood practices in the realm of fitness and sports performance. A long standing staple in many training sessions, it is commonly performed incorrectly, performed at the wrong time, or avoided for the wrong reason. By the end of this article you should be able ...
Top 3 Reasons To Train With Kettlebells
If you could only buy one piece of equipment to accomplish all of your training what would you buy? Treadmills and cycles are great for cardio but definitely won’t get you stronger. A barbell is great but where do you have room to keep it and let alone use it? Total gym style machines always ...
How To Become A Fat Burning Woman
How To Become A Fat Burning Woman Evolutionary women were built for childbearing. Unlike men, women have survival techniques that are unique to their bodies in order to prepare them for growing another human. While this is a beautiful miraculous trait, it comes with some conditions that specifically come into play when we are talking ...
Tips For A Balanced Lower Body
After an intense workout of front squats or thrusters, you may have felt that burning pumped up sensation in your quads. Your pants are tighter and you can no longer put your phone and keys in your front pocket for fear of getting them stuck. The quadriceps and hip flexor muscles on the front of ...
The Importance Of Stress For Your Health
Did you know that a little bit of stress can actually maximize your performance? IF you’ve ever been in a flow state and totally lost track of time immersed in the task at hand you know know how astounding it can be to snap out of it. You were so focused that you couldn’t worry ...