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6 High-Impact Activities You Should be Doing Everyday for Your Nutrition and Training Goals.
These are High-Impact activities because if you do these everyday, you’re going to see positive changes in your life. Prioritizing high-impact activities (even if they aren’t the activities listed) is the only way move closer to your goals. Goals, at their very core,...
Nutrition When Injured
Note: Not all podcast episodes have a blog component, but this one is too important not to have one. If you missed last week's episode, we talk all about the following. We decided to post a blog about this for those who aren't on the podcast yet! It can be temping to...
Training while Expecting!
Since becoming a gym owner, I’ve had the most wonderful experience training women that are pregnant. It wasn’t so long ago, that doctors told women to not do much of anything during their pregnancy. When I was pregnant with my son, I remember receiving a doctor’s note...
Cortisol – Making It Work With You
Cortisol is the main glucocorticoid (a kind of steroid hormone) that accelerates the breakdown of proteins into amino acids. Amino acids are moved out of the tissue and into blood and also to liver cells, where they are converted into glucose through a metabolic...
Grit.
/grit/ noun courage and resolve; strength of character. synonyms: courage, bravery, pluck, mettle, backbone, spirit, strength of character, strength of will, moral fiber, steel, nerve, fortitude, toughness, hardiness, resolve, resolution, determination, tenacity,...
Fueling for Competition
While performance nutrition can be personalized to your needs, there are some pretty standard recommendations when getting ready for a competition. Day Before Competition If you have a normal night-before routine keep it normal for you if it works for you. You don’t...
You are an ATHLETE
Do you ever feel like you don’t belong? Sometimes when we are making big life changes, it’s easy to feel like you don’t fit in. I know for many of you, this rings true. I hear it at Junction City CrossFit all the time. “I’m not a real CrossFit athlete because…(insert...
Meal Plans Suck – Blog
Meal plans are seen as a path to perfection but real life is messy and we aren’t perfect. It’s kinda like if a teacher gave you all the answers to an exam. In reality, going through the struggle and sometimes though the messiness to become stronger and learn more...