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Nutrition in 60 Seconds

Saturday, September 24, 2011

The next time you find yourself trying to figure out how to explain your Paleo Diet Lifestyle to someone without losing an hour of your life breaking it down for them, try the following explanation from the folks at whole9, as they came up with a 60 second explantion that is spot on...enjoy ; )

"I eat real food – fresh, natural food like meat, vegetables and fruit. I choose foods that are nutrient-dense, with lots of naturally occurring vitamins and minerals, over foods that have more calories but less nutrition. And food quality is important – I’m careful about where my meat, seafood and eggs come from, and buy organic local produce as often as possible.

This is not a “diet” – I eat as much as I need to maintain strength, energy, activity levels and a healthy body weight. I aim for well-balanced nutrition, so I eat both animals and a significant amount of plants. I’m not lacking carbohydrates – I just get them from vegetables and fruits instead of bread, cereal or pasta. And my meals are probably higher in fat than you’d imagine, but fat is a healthy source of energy when it comes from high-quality foods like avocado, coconut and grass-fed beef.

Eating like this is ideal for maintaining a healthy metabolism and reducing inflammation within the body. It’s good for body composition, energy levels, sleep quality, mental attitude and quality of life. It helps eliminate sugar cravings and reestablishes a healthy relationship with food. It also works to minimize your risk for a whole host of lifestyle diseases and conditions, like diabetes, heart attack, stroke and autoimmune disease."

 

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WOD
Extra Chunky
15 Min AMRAP
10 Squat Cleans 95/75
10 Ring Dips

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Lead Me Not Into Temptation...

Thursday, October 13, 2011

WILLPOWER.

People who look good have it and people who are fat don't, right?

Hmmmmm...sounds kind of weird when it's worded like that, but in my experience, that's how many folks think.  They believe that if they just had a little more willpower then they could finally step away from the donuts, dorittos and daiquiris and free themselves once and for all from their gelatinous demons.

Nope...wrongo, moose breath.

Willpower may get you off the couch and get you started, but in the end it's short-term motivation at best. Before you know it you'll find yourself back in your fat pants and full of self-loathing, wishing God would just put you out of your misery by allowing you to mercifully choke to death while eating your next Cinnabon.

While a little beyond the scope of this blog, I'll give you a couple of quick hints on how to win what is essentially a rigged game in the carnival of life:

1. Identify your demons and exorcise them.
Bad food in your house...remove it. Alcoholic friends that keep shoving beer bongs down your throat on the weekends...(bless their little hearts, they mean well), but for now they need to disappear. Little devil on your shoulder keeps telling you to skip meals and eat junk food...get a life coach, hire a trainer (what about me, what about me?!) watch all the Rocky movies, etc. 

2.  Fix your sh*t and stop being a victim.
Most of you are messing this up because you life is not set up to succeed, but rather fail. Think about it; why do you keep missing workouts and not eating right? Ready...here we go: "I'm too busy, I'm too tired, I don't know how to cook, I travel too much, I'm left handed, I have a lazy eye, I live in a third world country and don't have access to running water...well...you get my point.

Bottom line, there are always solutions for every perceived problem, and if you spend your time working on those solutions and then implementing them into your life, pretty soon you'll find yourself not having to depend on willpower so much because your life will be set up for you to WIN.

 

Check it out...the best video on temptation EVER!

WOD
CARSE - (newest Hero workout)
For Time:
21-18-15-12-9-6-3
Squat Cleans 95/65
Box Jumps 24"
Deadlifts 185/115
Double Unders
*Begin each round with a 50 meter bear crawl (1 length of our parking lot, people)

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