It’s 7 pm, most people are winding down after a full day’s work and are looking forward to hitting the sack in a few hours. These folks have been up since 6 am, when they woke from a full night’s sleep. While this is likely the story for most of us, the reality is that… Continue Reading
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Paleo Craziness: What’s With This Carbofastcycliccoffeeloading Thing??
You’re in the market for a new car – you find an awesome deal on a really sweet brand spanking new ride and you jump on it. You drive the car home and you like it a lot – it rides smooth, looks great and is, yeah, pretty much perfect. Safely parked in the garage… Continue Reading
Are your goals working against you?
What are your goals? We often hear that question, think about it for awhile, and then plan to think about it later as we carry on with our busy lives. It seems like one of those questions that we are always asked, but don’t give enough thought to. We know that in order to accomplish… Continue Reading
A Figure Model Goes Paleo: The Recipe for Success
My name is Gretchen and I am a wife, a personal trainer, a flight attendant & a paleo figure competitor. Figure competitions have been more of a recent passion in my life. I have been a personal trainer for about 3 years and as a personal trainer, competing in a figure competition was a big goal of mine.… Continue Reading
10 Ways Ironman Triathletes Can Avoid Chronic Cardio Self-Destruction
Written by Ben Greenfield At the recent Ancestral Health Symposium, Dr. James O’Keefe, a cardiologist from the Mid America Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Hospital reported on findings that exercise can be harmful, especially when performed as chronic cardio training and racing for extreme endurance events such as Ironman triathlon. O’Keefe reviewed studies of… Continue Reading
A Paleo Challenge Motivates Steve to Get Healthy
Food for thought: nutrition is paramount to optimal health and fitness. Whether it’s Zone, GOMAD, primal, or paleo, for better or for worse, I have witnessed the contagiousness of diet in many athletic communities: it’s mentioned, it peeks interest, it drives experimentation. After personal observation, experimentation, and even more observation, you can add me to… Continue Reading
Paleo Helps Triathlete Qualify for Ironman 70.3 World Championships
I started triathlon 4 years ago as a way to “mix things up” from my normal running and strength training routine that I used to stay in ‘decent shape’. I have always been an active person, enjoying a variety of sports and outdoor activities, but through my 20’s I really struggled to maintain a healthy body weight.… Continue Reading
Pale-‘O’-lympics: Go for the Gold
It happens every two years alternating between summer and winter. It’s when the World’s best athletes come together for the ultimate competition. Records are broken, dreams are realized, and medals are won. At some point in our lives we’ve probably all had “Olympic Dreams”. Unfortunately, if you’re like me, the skills required to reach those… Continue Reading
Water, Water Everywhere: Let’s Get ‘High(Hy)’-drated…
We all know (or maybe we are) that guy walking around with a gallon jug full of H2O all day, every day. Or that girl that has a different color water bottle every time you see her and it’s always full. Just thinking about all that water might make you thirsty or leave you wondering… Continue Reading
No Whey!! ‘Powder-Free’, Convenient Post Workout Fuel Options
There seems to have been a ‘bit’ of resistance to my recent post about the use of protein powders and liquid nutrition. If you missed that whole show let me give you a quick recap. Amy said: “Real food is always the best option and protein powders aren’t necessary.” This kind of ‘crazy talk’ brought… Continue Reading
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