5 Health Metrics That Are More Important Than Weight

For some strange reason American’s have chosen the scale as their favorite way to track progress around their health. People derive their sense of self worth based on the number facing up at them from between their feet. If you’re someone who draws any sort of emotional reaction, positive or negative, from the scale then […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

3 Alternatives to Juice Cleansing

Heading into the new year, beach season, or anytime you have had “enough” with the way you look and feel about your body there are some popular options you may have turned to.  One of the most popular options is buying a multi-day juice cleanse from a local cafe or whole foods market that is […]

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 […]

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 […]

Fruits and Vegetables

When did “Fruits and Vegetables” become 1 word? Fruits and vegetables seems to have become one word when it comes to giving advice on a healthy diet. However these two different food groups must be approached with different strategies. When it comes to optimizing health you need to choose the foods that best support your […]

CrossFit: Sport vs Exercise Program

CrossFit has exploded in popularity as a fun and effective way to get fit. It’s popularity has evolved because it works for everyday folks who need to maintain their health but is also extremely popular as a competitive event. Sometimes it is tough for the outside world to see the differences between the sport of […]

Ditch the Bench…

The top 8 Press variations you should be training instead There are an incredible number of options of exercises to train the chest and shoulder muscles. Yet most athletes stick with the same barbell and dumbbell presses year after year. When it comes to training upper body pressing there are many alternative movements that will […]