So I decided to make a video to highlight a few of the important things I learned from my grandmother that I know impart on my clients.
Posts tagged nutrition
Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Bar: How to Drink & Not Gain Fat
People assume that alcohol is the “Angel of Death” when it comes to fat loss, that like Indy and Marion, you have to shut your eyes and not look at it (in this case drink it) to lose weight.
Restricting things from your diet will ultimately lead to failure. You do not need to give up the food you love to achieve your fat loss goals, that includes zee booze.
Indiana Jones and The (Food) Temple of Boon
Thanks to the Internet, these Mola Ram types are indoctrinating more people than ever. The “diet gurus” of the introwebz typically have no degree in nutrition and usually make outrageous claims with no scientific fact to support their wacky theories.
They vehemently preach the dangers of ice cream, pizza, Subway’s bread, and warn you of chemicals in processed foods, but since they goofed off in high school science class, they forget that everything we eat is made of chemicals.
No one should ever enslave themselves to foods they hate nor should you have to rip out your heart and sacrifice your sanity on the Altar of Dieting Doom.
Instead, you can build a Temple of Boon
The .82 Gram Protein Experiment (From Stay Puft to Buff)
Like the salmon of Capistrano at the tail end of my 2014 “winter bulk” fat was beginning to flock everywhere making me look like the Stay Puft Marshmallow man. Getting to “Stay Puft” status meant it was time to start dieting and cutting.
Unless you eat only frozen chicken and cottage cheese or down shakes all day eating over 200 grams of protein a day with a variety of protein sources gets to be expensive.
No one should ever go broke while they are trying to get bigger or leaner.
The Holy Grail of Weight Loss
The “magic” food question is among the top five questions I am asked as a fitness coach. Everyone is looking for that one food that “Alakazam” and “poof” makes all the fat disappear off their back, abs, and arms overnight.
Weekly, maybe even daily, we are bombarded with ads or news stories covering some new supplement or exotic food that is the Holy Grail of fat loss.
The 9 Definitive Rules For (Somewhat) Fitness Success
Successful people tend to attribute their accomplishments to certain “rules” or guidelines that live by. These can be rules for behavior in the workplace, rules for interactions with clients or rules for how they approach challenging situations.
Guest Post on Tanner Baze Fitness
*This was originally a guest post I had the opportunity to post over at Tanner Baze Fitness. I went to Tanner with this post for some help and he allowed me to publish it there*
A Lifelong Commitment: Fitness and Marriage
Truth is, when you commit to an active health-conscious lifestyle, it will be full of successes and failures. For a while, you will hit PR (personal record) after PR. You will passionately stick to your diet counting every macro or calorie. On the weekend,s you will limit yourself to one or two drinks, and you may even see lots of weight dropping off the scale!
A Geek On a Never Ending Quest of Awesome
I am no one special. I am just a socially awkward ginger kid who growing up loved Hulk Hogan, Captain America, Michael Jordan, and video games. The latter became an obsession later in life and helped me succeed in procrastinating basically every assignment constantly in college.
Growing up I felt like no one really understood me. I had to cloak my geekiness from many of my friends because, you know, jocks don’t do Captain America, StarFox, Zelda, or science type crap. Nope, it’s all sports all the time, right? It’s odd how we constantly as young people put on new tee-shirts trying to see what fits and what defines our identity. Often times hiding or pushing down the things that we are actually passionate or “geeks” about.
My Time in the Church of Paleo
Fear and sex sale. They are the two most basic animalistic emotions that our lizard brains operate on. Marketers manipulate the two to get us to buy their products. Diet trends, as well, tend to fall into both of those categories.