Antioxidants And Exercise: Avoid them around your workouts.
Exercise produces free radicals, and antioxidants combat free radicals. So, you should load up on antioxidants before exercise, right? Wrong! Here’s why.
5 Common Weight Training Mistakes You Might Be Making
Weight training has a way of mimicking life, which is why the lessons learned in VIGOR Training are as practical outside the gym as they are inside it. And just like life, the shortcuts or easy options rarely produce long-lasting results. The following are the five most common mistakes people … Keep reading…
Do You Take Fish Oil? If Not, You’re Missing Out!
Though most people know fish oil is an important supplement to use each day, surprisingly, few people take it consistently. I’ve even been surprised by how few of my nutrition coaching clients use it regularly when we connect for our first session. It is often advertised for its heart health benefits, but … Keep reading…
The Best Muscle-Building Supplements
Amidst all the supplements that are just marketing hype, are there some that actually help you build muscle? What is the best muscle-building, strength-supporting supplement? The supplement industry is filled with bunk products, empty promises, and companies hoping to find the next sucker looking for a shortcut. Inevitably, those products get … Keep reading…
The Truth About Adrenal Fatigue
The most frustrating part is that those with adrenal fatigue are often ambitious, driven, and hard-working. Yet, exhaustion makes it difficult to function. Don’t be surprised if you have all the symptoms, but your doctor hesitates in making an adrenal fatigue diagnosis. Many conventional doctors don’t recognize the term adrenal fatigue. … Keep reading…
6 Fatitudes You Need To Fix If You Want To Get Fit
A fatitude is a belief or attitude that keeps you fat and unhealthy. In today’s other-blaming victimhood culture, many people point their fingers at others for their personal and professional problems, including their health. They cling to beliefs that harm, not help. I call these beliefs “fatitutdes.” Even if you … Keep reading…
The Most Important Factor in Long-Lasting Health and Fitness
This could be the most important health and fitness article you read this year. It’s also one of those articles that everyone (including me) needs to read and reread, but most skip over. They think they “know it” already, or they believe the content doesn’t apply to them. Your willingness … Keep reading…
Beauty in Her Badassness
No matter her shape, size, age, or position, there is something beautiful about a woman who unleashes her honest and authentic self to the world. To be clear, I always find my wife, Vanessa, to be beautiful. But just as cookie dough ice cream has different layers of deliciousness, there’s … Keep reading…
Hemp Oil, CBD Oil, Essential Oils, and the Endocannabinoid System
No doubt, you’ve heard friends and co-workers talking about hemp oil and CBD oil a lot lately. I predict the Endocannabinoid System will be the most talked-about area of health and fitness over the next decade, and the focus of fascinating research findings. That might sound like a bold statement, … Keep reading…
Lavender and Tea Tree Essential Oils and Gynecomastia (Boys with Boobs)
Do lavender and tea tree essential oils cause gynecomastia?…Of all the questions I get about essential oils, this question is in the top five. As a (grand)parent, I understand the fear of doing something to hurt your child. That’s why sensationalized headlines, like “More evidence essential oils ‘make male breasts … Keep reading…
Why We Need to Stop Bastardizing Struggle
I’m going to Baader-Meinhof you: “STRUGGLE.” The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon occurs when you become aware of something, and then start to notice it everywhere around you. Like Cole in The Sixth Sense who saw “dead people,” I see struggle. If you don’t see it already, you’re about to see struggle too. I don’t … Keep reading…
Uncivil Wars: Why We’re Better at Condemnation than Conversation
Finger-pointing. Helplessness. Hissy-fits. Name-calling. And unicorns. We can’t forget the unicorns. No, I’m not talking about toddlers, adolescents, or teenagers. I’m referring to the attitudes and behaviors of too many “adults” across America. Is it just me, or does it seem almost impossible to have a constructive conversation about a controversial … Keep reading…