It is often said breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This is true to those interested in fitness and even those who are not. Breakfast ends a nighttime fast of six to eight hours and primes you for the day. Can anyone guess what the second most important meal is? It’s not a meal that … [Read more...]
Cardio Made Easy – Get it Done Efficiently
There's no avoiding it so let's at least try to enjoy it. Aerobic exercise or cardio is a part of any complete trainee’s workout program. The standard used to be to do thirty minutes of this type of training per day. That usually meant a half hour of running nowhere on a treadmill. The good news … [Read more...]
The 2016 Mr Olympia Expo – Highlights and Fitness Tips
Baseball has the World Series, Football the Super Bowl, Soccer the World Cup. Just like those sports, competitive fitness (Bodybuilding and Figure) has the Olympia. Unlike those other sports, the competitive fitness championship showing comes with a full weekend of events including the ever popular … [Read more...]
Pay Less, Get More – Eating Less Processed Foods on a Budget
Before I start I want to make one thing clear. The context in this article may seem to reflect theories about the Federal Government’s underhanded attacks on minority, disadvantaged, and impoverished populations. I neither support nor deny such accusations and claims; however, that is not what this … [Read more...]
Fit to Fight – Boxing Fitness for the Ultimate Body
It is my opinion that boxers (and gymnasts) are some of the best conditioned people ever. If you don’t believe me take a look at the athletes who competed in the 2016 Olympics! Boxing is probably my favorite sport next to baseball. Take away the few exceptions and the larger majority of all boxers … [Read more...]
Why Weighing Too Often Could Work Against You
Weight loss always involves several different things. They may vary but the constants are usually a diet plan, an exercise plan, and the scale. The bathroom scale is one of the most used tools in the world of fitness. Before you hit the gym or a diet you usually check in with the scale. For the … [Read more...]
Exposing Marketing Magic and Health Foods
With everyone trying to undertake healthy lifestyles, the Marketing Magicians have come up with labels, trends, and key words to entice the buyer. Sometimes the fancy attributes fall short. After reading this you will be armed with the knowledge to avoid buying something that is nothing more than a … [Read more...]
Carb Drop – How to Eat Low Carb Like a Pro
In the world of eating to lose, cycling or limiting of carbohydrates is among the most popular and effective tools. Diets like Atkins made low and no carb eating popular. However, these diets are heavily flawed fad based programs. To divert as far from that as possible, I won’t even use the word … [Read more...]
Drink to Your Health: Tea Color Guide
Years ago if you brought up the subject of colored teas people might think you were crazy. Tea comes in dark brown and light brown, when the tea bag was old. Truth is tea comes in many colors. Different color tea has different health benefits. Now days we all know about green tea. Most teas … [Read more...]
Three Unusual Nutrient Dense Vegetables Groups You Should Be Eating
What are you eating? Stroll through the produce section at your local grocery store or your local farmer’s market and you’ll find a variety of healthy vegetables. From broccoli to spinach, from carrots to asparagus, they are all packed with low calorie high content nutrition. Chances are, you're … [Read more...]
The Carbohydrate Constitution
If you take a trip back to the 80s, you might remember a major war. No it wasn’t a war waged on foreign soils over oil, communism, terrorism, or politics. This was a war of lipids, an attack on all things fat. The fitness community slightly influenced by the medical community, and heavily influenced … [Read more...]
Exposed; Healthy Foods
Most people can decipher what's junk food and what's healthy. Who teaches us which foods are good and which one are bad? Our parents, our peers, but most of all advertising. Tv commercials and ads have shaped which foods we think are healthy. Food that's good for you and food that isn’t good for … [Read more...]
