Do you have an intolerance to caffeine, perfumes, or other environmental chemicals? I sure as hell do! It seems like every Uber car I get into has 10 air freshener trees hanging from the rear view mirror. It’s all I can do to stick my head out the window to gasp for air. That’s a great visual… And I get …
But the more I workout, the better?! Right? WRONG! This is one of the hardest misconceptions to break from. Especially as a CrossFitter. Where does this belief come from? For me, it came from watching my mom bounce from diet to diet claiming that ‘just looking at bread will make her fat.’ Coupled with reading every Women’s Health magazine, convincing …
Did you know that toxins wrap themselves in fats for storage in our body? We actually accumulate extra fat to buffer & protect us from the damaging effects of toxins. When the liver is over-burdened by the toxins coming in through the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the chemicals we absorb through our …
Many of us have been playing this game with our bodies for quite some time. I started dieting in high school and got SUPER skinny to the point I was 104 lbs. I know some women who have started even younger! Most of us think that weight loss is a linear relationship with calorie burning. Greater the burn, greater the …
This is me after a Vinyasa yoga class. 6 months ago, I never in a million years, would have thought of doing a yoga class for my ‘workout.’ I never would have thought that doing 3×12 squats at 50% 1RM would be effective enough to keep me in shape, and now I don’t lift much above that… 6 months ago, …
Kaytlin Fowler is one of my hardest working clients that I have had the opportunity to work with. I loved her from the start because we shared a special bond. We both come from wheat farms in northern Montana. Awwww, how cool! A Success Story of Reverse Dieting and Fat Loss Kaytlin came to me during her last year as …
Mmmk so maybe we shouldn’t be eating pints of ice cream to lose fat… But there are certainly scenarios during a dedicated fat loss cut (where we are purposely decreasing caloric intake to induce a fat loss result) where we can implement days of caloric surplus (in the form of carbohydrates) to break through a plateau in fat loss. This …
The Fat Loss Series Continues! Fat Burning Myth #3: “Eating 6 small meals per day (vs. 3 larger meals) will ramp-up your metabolism and burn more fat.” False. Surprised? Let’s dive in deeper and debunk possibly one of the longest standing dogmas in the fat loss world… To be honest, there really isn’t any harm to believing this myth, unless, …
Today we continue to reveal yet another common fat loss tip you should ignore! Yesterday you discovered that High-Intensity Training was no more useful in creating a negative fat balance for weight loss than Low-Intensity Training when calories burned were matched. Pretty Earth-shattering stuff! It doesn’t stop there. Today, you will witness yet another age-old fat loss technique unravel in …
Research is a great tool for practical implication. That is until popular magazines and journalists get a hold of it Then, at which point, the conclusions are taken way out of context and drawn way out of proportion and sold to you as truths. You’ve likely experienced this phenomenon during your health and fitness endeavor. You read an insightful article …