Live Fit and Sore

Category: Health/Nutrition

  • Great Info about Good, Solid Nutrition Making the Difference

    My brother Jon sent this to me — and really drives home how important nutrition, rest and sweet potatoes can be in your training — Paleo, recovery, the sweet potato and my neck In the end, nutrition is the athlete. If what you’re doing isn’t working for you, keep plugging away. The combination of an overall…

  • People Who Will Ruin Your Attempts to Lose Weight

    Too funny —The 8 People Who Will Ruin Your Attempt to Lose Weight It’s damn hard to lose weight and just generally get in shape. Americans are getting fatter every year, and 80 percent of people who lose weight gain it all back. Why does it seem so impossible? Part of the reason is willpower…

  • Give It Up! Going Grain Free…

    An older post from Nourished Kitchen about going grain-free but still very very relevant – and I agree with it based on my own experience being grain free — Against the Grain: 10 Reasons to Give Up Grains I’ve been toying, off and on, with the idea of eliminating grains for a while.   I…

  • Whole Life Challenge – Getting Focused!

    Starting today — I am participating in the The CFI Whole Life Challenge – an 8-week intensive health and fitness challenge created to calibrate your entire being towards a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners, no-excuses, gettin’-everything-out-of-it lifetime of physical and mental excellence. Strict focus and awareness of what you are putting in your body — I had to…

  • Let’s talk about something — excuses!

    Let’s talk about something — excuses! Why do people have so many excuses about why they aren’t working on their fitness and health? I am creating a Whole Life Challenge at my CrossFit box and if athletes don’t want to do it –no big deal. No pressure –  you make changes when you are ready…

  • Healthy Eating

    Five myths about healthy eating We don’t need advertisers to tell us that candy is delicious. Humans were big fans of fat and sugar long before the idiot box was invented. We’re programmed to go for the good (bad) stuff. Sure, Kellogg’s and General Mills have big advertising budgets, but they’re nowhere near as powerful…

  • This is not Fred Flinstone – The Paleo Diet

    Paleo diet or ‘caveman’ diet gains traction despite controversies; ‘This is not Fred Flintstone’  Could Paleolithic man hold the key to today’s nutrition problems? A growing number of adherents to the so-called “caveman” diet contend that a return to the hunter-gatherer foods of the Stone Age — heavy on meats, devoid of most grains —…

  • A Well-Balanced Meal? I Don’t Think So…

    I was driving home this morning and listening to the radio. A McDonald’s commercial came on talking about updates to the Happy Meal. The Happy Meal will now include fries AND apple slices for a ‘well balanced meal’. Isn’t that fabulous!!  Now come on — if you are going to sell it, don’t add in the…

  • It’s all related –Mind and Body

    How I Stopped Judging Myself The key is being aware of how you treat yourself. We are usually our harshest critics. Once you are self aware, you can at least begin to address the issue. It’s the same with working out. Body awareness is key to being more efficient and effective in your workouts. See…

  • Junk Food is NOT cheaper!

    Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? “THE “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or…