Year: 2017

So I know that many of you are athletes, and you probably are concerned all the time about dehydration and understand the causes and effects of dehydration. Well, I want to tell you about the opposite end of the spectrum. I'm going to explain to you my personal experience with the effects of hydration on sports performance, and not just hydration, I mean over-hydration. MYTH: "There's No Such Thing As Too Much Water" This is very, very wrong. I am going to go back to a point in my life where I was in top physical condition for swimming. I was competing at the highest level of master's swimming and held the title as one of the top breast strokers for my age group in California. This was the peak…

Quite often we find ourselves in a tough position when trying to focus on nutrition. Why is it so hard to eat healthy? One thing I've realized is that time is probably the largest thing I'm lacking when it comes to my diet and overall health. With our extremely busy day to day lives and little time for relaxation, especially when pursuing a healthy lifestyle, you just can't fit in the time to have your daily servings of fruit, daily servings of vegetables, and everything else in six separate meals. In addition, eating a bunch of different vegetables separately is really quite the task. In addition to not tasting all that great back to back, it takes so much time to eat a banana, and then right after that drink…