Did you know that one of the most important things you can do to help your body recover from exercise is to eat the right foods? With proper post-workout nutrition, you can replenish the energy you’ve used as well as promote muscle building.
So the new tagline for the website and my brand is “Fueling every level of athlete.” So who is an athlete?
What you eat is just as important to your training regimen as the workout you have planned for the day. This applies to everyone; recreational exercisers to elite athletes.
Not only is it important to choose the right foods but also the right amounts of each depending on where you’re at in your training cycle. The goal is to make your plate reflect the day’s training.
I think you will agree with me when I say there is a TON of noise coming from all different directions in the health, fitness, and nutrition space. It can be difficult to decide what to listen to and what advice to take. Who should you listen to, what program should you try, what products should you buy?!
From my experience with clients and what they tell me as well as my own personal experiences there I’ve felt the need to try to clear some things up and share some of my feelings about who we should be trusting in the areas of health and fitness.
Excuses, way too common…
It seems as if excuses are getting easier to come up with and eating healthy, exercising, and taking care of our bodies is becoming more difficult. That’s all simply perception and I think we all need to give ourselves a little reality check now and then.
Heyyy! It’s Friday 🙂 Why not start the day off with a laugh…. Source Source On Tuesday evenings I teach a group fitness class in the local high school weight room. Here is a circuit that I used a few weeks ago. If you’ve read my other FitFriday posts you’ve...
I say “leg day” and I know what always comes to mind… Source But leg day is a good thing, something we definitely don’t want to skip…. Source So today I’m providing you with a quick leg workout. Each set should only take about ten minutes, so choose how long...
It’s FitFriday everybody! Or for today, we can call it FitBit Friday. Source Ever since my friends and family had introduced me to FitBit and other wearable health trackers a couple years ago I have been intrigued. I thought it was awesome how you could see how active you were...
…make orange juice instead! Have you ever started a workout challenge or program and had it fall apart because, as we all know, life happens? You get off track by a day or two and feel like “this isn’t working out as planned” and/or “this just isn’t the right time.” This happens...
We all see the advertisements for gym memberships, workout programs, and articles in magazines claiming they can give you “the beach body you’ve always wanted” or “how to get a flat stomach” and have images of incredibly fit people implying a “this could be you” mentality. All those things are great...