Top 5 Running Injuries and How to Prevent & Treat Them
Top 5 Running Injuries and How to Prevent & Treat Them While running is a popular activity that presents a number of important health benefits, it’s not without its risks. Running injuries can affect anyone, from experienced runners who push treat them themselves hard to beginners whose muscles are not used to running. Many runners […]
Looking for Skinny Summer Cocktail Recipes?
Looking for Skinny Summer Cocktail Recipes? Mixers, syrups, and sodas really get people into calorie trouble, because most drinks start with 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits that only have around 96 calories, but mixologists can easily turn that into a drink with hundreds of calories. Also, consider that whether you’re drinking a
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Secrets of a Successful Personal Training Business
1. Know what your clients know. Beyond keeping up with your own professional education, pay attention to what your clients are learning. Reading professional journals is important, but it’s not enough. You also need to be reading popular publications both online and offline. They’re
Gluten-Free Lifestyle: Is It Here To Stay?
One buzzword that keeps popping up in grocery stores, restaurants and even churches is gluten-free. Gluten, a protein found in grains like wheat, barley and rye, is difficult for some people’s bodies to process, resulting in an autoimmune digestive disease that damages the small intestine
What CrossFit Teaches Us About Pricing
Walk into any CrossFit gym, and you’ll probably hear loud music blasting over the grunts of CrossFitters pushing their bodies well past what most would consider possible. CrossFitters sweat, shout and groan their way through rigorous exercises. They often train so hard they can hardly stand
Substitute Ingredients for Meat, Dairy and Fat
There are many substitutions forand meat and dairy products, and fatty unhealthy ingredients; and more products are coming out all the time! Just the other day while shopping at my local grocery I noticed a new non-dairy product – Quinoa Milk! Regardless of your reason for choosing non-dairy, non-animal
Sleep Techniques for Optimal Muscle Growth
Along with proper training and nutrition, your sleep technique can influence optimal muscle growth! You and your training partner carefully measure the protein intake for the “max” in optimal muscle growth response. You both take the exact same anabolic state-of-the-art supplements and follow the same “perfect” workout dictated by your aggressive,
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5 Things That Mess with Your Gym Confidence When you walk into that shiny lobby, membership card in hand, the gym seems like an endless world of possibilities. Once you’ve spread out your mat amidst the sea of spandex-clad people, however, the gym can be a major confidence-drainer. After all,
Gluten-Free? Surprise! 30 Foods That Contain Gluten
If you have celiac-disease, gluten-sensitivity or for some other reason you’re not eating gluten—the protein found in wheat, rye and barley—your probably aware of avoiding the obvious offenders like bread, pasta and baked goods. But you may be surprised to learn of certain foods that contain gluten. Below is a listing