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Pre-Workout Nutrition Tips
The goal of the pre-workout meal should be to help you feel and perform your best during your workout. So if you want to optimize your pre-workout meal; what should you eat?
5 Tips to Manage Your health And Fitness Goals While Traveling
Whether it's vacation or a work trip, clients are often really worried about derailing their progress while out of their normal routine. Here are 5 practical tips to help you adjust your expectations and stay on track while traveling!
What Contributes most to your total Daily Energy Expenditure?
EAT, TEF, NEAT, BMR… what even are those things?! Let’s break down the common misconceptions about what contributes to your total daily energy expenditure!
How To Use Psychology To Break Bad Habits
Trying to break bad habits is HARD! Here are 3 practical psychology based tips that you can use to break bad habits and form good ones!
Under-eating may be limiting your progress
If you’re struggling to make progress in the gym, under-eating might be the culprit! Not convinced? Here are 5 ways that under-eating may be holding you back from reaching your fitness goals.
5 Reasons You’re not sleeping
Sleep is critical if you want to be functioning at your full capacity. If you’re struggling to fall or stay asleep, one of these five things might be the culprit!
How to navigate Eating out While sticking to your health and fitness goals
Eating out shouldn’t be stressful; it should be fun! If you’re stressed about navigating a meal out while sticking to your health and fitness goals, check out these 5 tips!
The Top 5 Qualities of Successful Online Coaching Clients
Are you thinking about hiring an online health and fitness coach for the first time?! Here are the top 5 things that you can do to ensure you get the most out of your coaching relationship!
3 tips for forming new habits
Many of us start new habits with the best of intentions and then end up throwing them out the window a week later because you just can’t stick to them. Here are 3 tips that will help you form and sustain any new habit that you want to build!
How to Gain muscle and lose fat at the same time?!
Body Recomposition is a fancy term for changing the way that your body looks by simultaneously gaining muscle and losing fat. This much sought after transformation can be accomplished with these 5 steps.
What shoes are best for lifting weights?
When selecting shoes for the gym, the most important thing is being able to evenly apply force into the ground and maintain balance. Select a shoe with minimal cushioning and a wide toe box so that you can spread your toes and feel the floor beneath you.
What’s your stress signature?
Everyone has a unique stress signature meaning that different stressors will affect each of us differently. Building awareness around your stress triggers will allow you to better manage stress and make things just a little bit better.
Why you should be paying attention to bio-feedback
Bio-feedback is our bodies way of communicating with us to provide hints about how it’s feeling. By tracking metrics such as sleep, energy, stress, hunger, and soreness you can evaluate trends to determine how your body is recovering and adapting to training demands.
The 6 elements of deep health
Discover the six essential elements of deep health for overall well-being. From physical and emotional health to environmental and relational health, this holistic approach recognizes the interconnectedness of all areas that contribute to a fulfilling and meaningful life.
What is rpe?!
Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) is a subjective measure of how intense a given exercise is to complete. It’s a powerful tool that allows for daily fluctuations in strength levels but takes time to learn to report accurately and consistently.
How to create a warm-up for any workout
Warming up before a workout is important for preparing your body for physical activity while reducing the risk of injury. Learn how to build an effective warm-up for any workout by incorporating a general warm-up, specific warm-up, and dynamic stretching.
5 Reasons Why You Should be lifting weights
Looking strong is really cool, but there are so many other health benefits associated with strength training. Here are 5 non-aesthetic benefits of lifting weights!
High Protein Snack Ideas and simple swaps
Struggling to eat enough protein throughout the day? Try out these high protein snacks and easy swaps to boost your protein intake and keep you feeling full between meals!
5 Tips for Sticking to Your New Year’s Resolutions
Start small and habit stack to make your New Year's resolutions stick. By being consistent and finding support, you can turn your resolutions into lasting habits and have a happy and healthy new year.
Progressive Overload: The Key To Continued Progress in Strength and Conditioning
Progressive overload involves gradually increasing the demands placed on the body in order to continue making progress. By repeating the same exercises and progressively increasing the demands, you can effectively target specific muscle groups and see consistent progress towards your strength and conditioning goals.