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Learn about IronMVMNT approaches to health and fitness with practical tips and tools to use to grow as an athlete.
Plan of Care; Low Energy Meal Edition
At IronMVMNT, we like to encourage building a Plan of Care - a plan that we can fall back on and utilize whenever our mental, emotional, and/or physical energy levels are running on low. Having a food list to refer to in your Plan of Care is helpful from neurotypical...
CrossFit & Dietitians Collide – Florida Enacts Occupational Freedom and Opportunity Act
CrossFit & Registered Dietitians as a whole have had beef for many years. This isn’t anything new. On June 30, 2020, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Occupational Freedom and Opportunity Act (HB 1193), permitting CrossFit trainers (and other nutrition coaches),...
Food Neutrality – Why We Need to Lose “Good” & “Bad” Food Lists
It doesn’t take a lot to find lists of “good” and “bad” foods. As humans, we really like to put everything into boxes and place labels on them. It’s easy to put foods into these categories and labels because it feels like it makes life easier. It’s easy to talk about...
4 Areas to Focus on for Long-Term Success – Nutrition Edition
What Does it Mean to Have Sustainable and Consistent Nutrition and why is it important? Eating in a sustainable and consistent manner is a way to show kindness to your body and hold yourself accountable to a healthy self – physically, mentally, emotionally, and...
“Help! I overate! What should I do next?”
Normal life challenges show up for everyone and cause some changes in the best of plans. Having a plan of action to fall back on when challenges do happen is what differentiates successful from the unsuccessful endeavors around health and nutrition goals. Eating out...
Counting the Small Wins – Practical Exercise Included
It’s helpful to have several practical tools in our toolbox to support and grow skills needed for healthy habits when trying to implement changes for long-term health and nutrition goals. If you’re already making some healthy changes to your nutrition and you’re...
Minimum Energy Performance + Grind Toxicity
“You don’t always have to do. You can just be.” - Kat “How can I stay focused when I’m dealing with personal issues – whether unexpected events, moving, work or relationship problems, or even feelings of depression?”-Tons of people There has been a cultural push to...
Body Fat Percentage – Rethinking Goals
We recorded a podcast episode all about body fat percentage (episode 42) and it’s been one of our more popular episodes based on some 1:1 feedback. Talking about body fat is not the most comfortable thing for most people because 1) it’s associated with negative...
6 Ways to Combat Cravings…
Cravings show up for many people, especially when they are trying to make healthy changes in their nutrition. For some, focus and grit can help get them through cravings, but for others, it can be helpful to have a plan to tackle them. Here are some of the ways we...