Exercise and The Office

Exercise and The Office

Fitness, Nutrition
When you say exercise and office in the same sentence, people usually look at you funny. I'm not writing this to tell you to do dips on your desk, or pushups in the walkway. I personally think that this just ticks everyone else off when they have to walk around you to get to the coffee pot. What I aim to do here is provide you with some options to add a little bit of movement to your day. While some of these ideas may seem like common sense, sometimes it helps when someone else brings them to your attention. Struggles of the Office I never really have been in an office setting for more and a couple days at a time, but recently I've taken on a role that…
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Is The Best Protein Shake No Protein Shake?

Is The Best Protein Shake No Protein Shake?

Nutrition
With all of the different options on the market these days, how do you decide what the best protein shake really is. You see a ton of companies like Optimum Nutrition and MusclePharm pushing their products in your face everywhere you go...I can't even walk into my local gyms anymore without seeing a 20ft long rack of protein powders lining the walls. Here's the problem with this... you are likely NOT protein deficient. When you are not protein deficient all you are doing is causing your kidneys to work harder to digest something that you really didn't need in the first place. Remember that article where I talked about how I was on the brink of kidney failure? Well I'm attributing part of that to the two or three protein…
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Effects of Hydration on Sports Performance

Effects of Hydration on Sports Performance

Nutrition
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…
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Should I Buy a NutriBullet?

Should I Buy a NutriBullet?

Nutrition
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…
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