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How to Incorporate More Veggies into Your Diet

How to Incorporate More Veggies into Your Diet

Even as adults, vegetables can be a tricky thing. You know (hopefully) that you should be getting plenty of vegetables on a daily basis. But, are you actually doing it?...

How to Make the Impossible, Possible

How to Make the Impossible, Possible

That light bulb that suddenly clicks in your head. “I’ve got it! I am signing up for the San Francisco Marathon!” Or “I’m going to climb The Nose on El...

The Elliptical Illusion: Why Interval Training Burns the Most Fat

The Elliptical Illusion: Why Interval Training ...

I’m sure on Planet X there is a television station live streaming cardio machines at Globo Gyms across the United States. This program provides endless elation to our extraterrestrial friends....

The Benefits of Pea Protein

The Benefits of Pea Protein

One of key advantages that pea protein has over it's competitors is that it's completely hypoallergenic.

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The Benefits of Pea Protein

What to Eat During the Week Leading up to Your Marathon

What to Eat During the Week Leading up to Your ...

Like all athletes, runners train hard – especially as the actually competition gets closer and closer. Often, though, they tend to neglect their nutrition. To be fair, this might not...

Ditching the Diet. Stop “Dieting”…Just Eat Right

Ditching the Diet. Stop “Dieting”…Just Eat Right

Is dieting really the way ? There are about a million diets out there. Some promise fast weight loss and others guarantee rock hard abs in just one week. Some...

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Ditching the Diet. Stop “Dieting”…Just Eat Right

5 Tips for Training with an Injury

5 Tips for Training with an Injury

Getting injured while training can be one of the most frustrating and upsetting things that you have to face as an athlete. After all, your workouts are supposed to be...

Counting Macros vs. Counting Calories

Counting Macros vs. Counting Calories

It’s pretty commonly accepted that, if you want to lose weight or gain weight or do anything that impacts your relationship with the troublesome scale, you need to count your...

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Counting Macros vs. Counting Calories

Top 10 Most Nutritionally Rich Foods

Top 10 Most Nutritionally Rich Foods

Sadly, the common modern diet is less than ideal – for lots of reasons. In fact, several studies have found that not only is obesity on the rise, but so...

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Top 10 Most Nutritionally Rich Foods

Gluten-Free, Vegan Brownies with Gnarly Vegan Protein

Gluten-Free, Vegan Brownies with Gnarly Vegan P...

This past weekend, I put together these super quick and easy to make four ingredient brownies that were pretty fantastic. They contain zero refined sugar, are gluten free, and vegan...

What to Eat Before and After a Workout

What to Eat Before and After a Workout

What you eat before…and after your workouts is a huge part of how your workouts will go and how effective they will be. You need the proper foods to fuel...

5 Myths That Are Slowing Your Progress

5 Myths That Are Slowing Your Progress

There is a staggering, confusing and frustrating amount of misinformation surrounding the complex field of fitness and nutrition. More than being irritating, however, these myths and misconceptions could be actively...

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5 Myths That Are Slowing Your Progress

Three Metabolic Finishers To Torch Fat

Three Metabolic Finishers To Torch Fat

You’ve finished your workout, done everything you came to the gym to accomplish. But you still have some energy left and feel like you could keep going. What do you...

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Three Metabolic Finishers To Torch Fat

Meet Training Weight

Meet Training Weight

Today was my first road ride of 2016. A week of warmer than usual temperatures in Central Oregon melted the ice off the roads and the sun beckoned me to...

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Meet Training Weight

How to Stay Hydrated as an Active Mom

How to Stay Hydrated as an Active Mom

As a mom my life can be pretty hectic at times. I’m usually juggling lots of things, feeding my family, keeping the house from looking like we got robbed or...

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How to Stay Hydrated as an Active Mom

Don't Fall Victim to These 3 Dieting Myths

Don't Fall Victim to These 3 Dieting Myths

Remember the 1940’s, when smoking made you skinny? Remember five years ago (and still today) when fat made you fat and low-fat, chemical and sugar pumped foods made you thin?...

How Reliable Is Thirst for Staying Hydrated?

How Reliable Is Thirst for Staying Hydrated?

Thirst is a basic instinct, so understanding it and hydration should be pretty simple, right? Fluids hydrate you, and when you lose too many fluids, your body tells you it’s...

Good vs Bad: Which Nutrition Bars Should You Be Avoiding?

Good vs Bad: Which Nutrition Bars Should You Be...

Nutrition bars – which can include protein bars, energy bars and the like – are great, convenient little meals and snacks that give you the fuel you need without a...

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Good vs Bad: Which Nutrition Bars Should You Be...

30 Nutrition Facts that Should Be Common Sense But Aren't

30 Nutrition Facts that Should Be Common Sense ...

There is a staggering amount of information regarding nutrition available to us nowadays. Unfortunately, it’s often confusing, contradictory or just downright wrong. Sifting through this mess can be frustrating and...

Muscle Cramping: An Athlete's Nemesis

Muscle Cramping: An Athlete's Nemesis

Muscle cramping is my nemesis. Simultaneous hamstring cramping once made be abandon the trail and roll in the shrubbery trying to figure out if straitening or bending my legs would...

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Muscle Cramping: An Athlete's Nemesis

Stay Hydrated by Knowing When and What to Drink

Stay Hydrated by Knowing When and What to Drink

We hear a lot about pre- and post-workout fueling but it seems like sometimes there is one very important factor that gets missed…hydration. And that’s a shame because proper hydration...

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Stay Hydrated by Knowing When and What to Drink

Sugar Substitutes: Natural vs. Artificial Sweeteners

Sugar Substitutes: Natural vs. Artificial Sweet...

You’re trying to eat healthy, we know that. And, on your quest to clean up your diet, you’ve likely made an effort to limit the amount of added sugar you...

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Sugar Substitutes: Natural vs. Artificial Sweet...

10 Benefits of Amino Acid Supplements

10 Benefits of Amino Acid Supplements

In the world of supplements, protein – whether from whey or another source – tends to hold steady as king of them all. But here’s something from high school biology...

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10 Benefits of Amino Acid Supplements

50 Different Ways to Take Your Whey

50 Different Ways to Take Your Whey

You might be surprised to hear this but there are tons of things that you can do with that fantastic grass-fed whey protein – Gnarly Whey – you just picked...

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50 Different Ways to Take Your Whey