Nutrition Strategies to Fight Inflammation

By | 2017-05-10T22:17:53+00:00 May 10th, 2017|HEALTH SCIENCE, Health Tips, Nutrition|

Warnings about the dangers of inflammation have led to the development of various diets, supplements, and pharmaceutical drugs.  The most common approach to treating inflammation has been with various pharmaceuticals that inhibit inflammatory pathways. A successful example of this is Aspirin, in other instances unsuccessful ones like VIoxx have had serious side effects which is [...]

Tips For Improving Your CrossFit Conditioning

By | 2017-05-01T13:27:16+00:00 May 1st, 2017|Fitness, Health Tips|

CrossFit incorporates many facets of athleticism like strength, power, speed and endurance. As the sport has progressed we’ve seen an evolution in the athletes with regards to these attributes. CrossFit games data show that male and female athletes have consistently added around 15 lbs to their Olympic lifts each year. As these power numbers have increased there’s been [...]

CYBERKINETIC PERIODIZATION AND AUTOREGULATION TOOLS PT 2

By | 2018-03-19T13:59:07+00:00 April 24th, 2017|Health Tips|

There are a variety of autoregulation tools available to give you feedback on how to modify your training, I’ve found these to be efficient, relatively simple, and affordable considering some of the tools listed are available even as free apps for most phones. RPE - RPE stands for rate of perceived exertion, it was a [...]

QUICK THOUGHTS

By | 2017-04-24T14:54:43+00:00 April 24th, 2017|Health Tips|

Here's some quick thoughts/observations that I'd like to share with you all:   Baseline Physical Activity: Last month I got a cool watch that tracks stuff like my steps per day, calories burned, etc.  While I've always been aware that physically active people burn more energy than sedentary, this new watch really put in perspective [...]

STUFF TO READ 7/26/15

By | 2017-04-24T14:31:12+00:00 April 24th, 2017|Health Tips|

Here's a collection of articles I read over the week that'll be of intrest to you, covering things like nutiriton, recovery, and fitness. According to this article by Vox - Less than 10% of Adults are consuming an adequate amount of vegetables.   Increasing vegetable intake is one of the most common recommendations that I've made [...]

RANDOM LINKS

By | 2017-04-24T13:46:13+00:00 April 24th, 2017|Health Tips|

Here's a collection of random links I found appealing to our sites readers that you can look at during the day. 6 Surprising Facts About Caffeine - I think just about everyone knows at least one person that tells them they can't function without their coffee or some sort of caffeine in the morning. Fab [...]

VITAMIN C PROTOCOL: IMMUNE SYSTEM BOOSTER

By | 2017-04-24T09:41:05+00:00 April 24th, 2017|Health Tips|

Vitamin C Protocol : When You’re Feeling Sick -  “Vitamin C intake has physiological effects on susceptibility to common cold infections” (1) - “Supplementation of vitamin C is most effective in cases of physical strain or insufficient intake of the vitamin” (2) -  “Vitamin C in megadoses administered before or after the appearance of cold [...]

INVEST IN YOURSELF

By | 2017-04-24T06:18:04+00:00 April 24th, 2017|Health Tips|

Whether it be an aesthetic goal like having that "dream body" you always envisioned, having an athletic goal, or just wanting to feel better. “INVESTING IN YOURSELF IS THE BEST INVESTMENT YOU WILL EVER MAKE. IT WILL NOT ONLY IMPROVE YOUR LIFE, IT WILL IMPROVE THE LIVES OF ALL THOSE AROUND YOU.” - ROBIN SHARMA

EFFECTS OF MEAL FREQUENCY ON WEIGHT LOSS AND BODY COMPOSITION – META ANALYSIS

By | 2017-04-24T06:14:57+00:00 April 24th, 2017|Health Tips, Nutrition|

Overview A common belief in some nutrition circles is that eating small frequent meals rather than a few large meals is better for weight loss and body fat composition.  Many people may have heard the analogy of stoking the furnace, an argument used by supporters of this belief that a constant influx of small energy [...]