How To Prepare For International Travel and Competition
When international travel is on your schedule, make sure you plan appropriately.
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Did you order a coffee or was it dessert?
Not all coffee is prepared the same! With so many options available now, ordering a coffee isn’t just a standard cup anymore. Know what’s in your coffee and how it can impact you.
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Chill Out and Perform Better – Keeping Cool In Heat
Keeping cool in the heat and when working hard is crucial for maintaining performance and safety.
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Tournament Success Is About What You Do Between Events
Tournament schedules are jam packed with quick turnarounds. What you do in that short amount of time is critical for tournament success.
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Quality Diet First, Supplements Second
Like everything you have to walk before you can run. It all starts with the fundaments and with our health that is a quality diet. Most people want the quick fix of a pill or supplement or the ‘super food’ of the month. A quick fix never replaces the benefits a quality diet is able […]
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Sore Muscles Improved With The Help Of Omega-3s
There’s nothing quite like finishing up leg day, walking like Bambi. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, we wake up the next morning with even more sore muscles than the day before. While some muscle soreness is perfectly normal and part of the training adaptation, there’s certainly a fine line. Especially if it’s after a […]
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Lose Fat, Build Muscle, Have Patience
To lose fat while preserving muscle, patience is king “I want to lose fat and build muscle” can be worded many ways. No matter how you want to phrase it though, that is one of the most popular topics in nutrition. Many people are trying to achieve this trade of fat to muscle and are […]
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“Do I Need A Pre-Workout Supplement?”
Pre-workout supplements likely aren’t the answer and could even be dangerous! If you’re feeling tired and sluggish with no energy for your workouts, grabbing a supplement should NOT be your first response. Supplements in general are very poorly regulated and pre-workout supplements in particular tend to be even more risky. The risk with pre-workouts tend […]
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Daylight Savings: A love-hate relationship
Spring is finally here, yay!!! We have to move our clocks ahead an hour, booooo!!! Every year the feelings never change. We get excited for warm weather and no more training in the snow but that first day/week after the time change dampens the excitement as it usually means feeling more tired. There’s never a good […]
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Bedtime Snack: Friend or Foe
It’s not uncommon to hear someone talking about how they don’t eat after dinner, nothing after 6pm, feeling sluggish in the morning because they ate right before bed, if they eat late at night they gain weight like it’s nothing. This may have more to do with what and how much they are eating as […]