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7 Reasons Why You Should Be Eating Clean

7 Reasons Why You Should Be Eating Clean

If you’ve been around the health and fitness community for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly encountered the term “clean eating.” While, like other terms like “healthy” and “natural,”...

How to Incorporate Traditional Super Foods into Your Diet

How to Incorporate Traditional Super Foods into...

We hear the word “superfood” being thrown around a lot these days. Everything from avocados to spirulina is being called a “superfood”, but what about traditional “superfoods” such as fermented...

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How to Incorporate Traditional Super Foods into...

How to Prepare Your Grains Properly

How to Prepare Your Grains Properly

As a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, I receive a lot of questions about many different types of foods. One of the most common questions I receive is “are grains healthy?” My...

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How to Prepare Your Grains Properly

Chunky Monkey with Gnarly Vegan Chiseled Chocolate

Chunky Monkey with Gnarly Vegan Chiseled Chocolate

Creamy and Delicious Chunky Monkey with Gnarly Vegan Chiseled Chocolate! Perfect for all you Vegans out there looking for a protein-packed and filling treat! Blend it up and enjoy! Ingredients:...

Building Muscle: Men vs. Women

Building Muscle: Men vs. Women

Often, women avoid weight lifting out of fear of developing unwanted bulk. For similar reasons, women generally believe that they need to train differently than men to achieve their desired...

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Building Muscle: Men vs. Women

25 Fun Ways To Burn 100 Calories

25 Fun Ways To Burn 100 Calories

Although it might not seem like much, burning a full 100 calories several times in a week adds up. And better yet, it can usually be done fairly quickly –...

The Top 10 Nutrients You Aren't Getting Enough Of

The Top 10 Nutrients You Aren't Getting Enough Of

As an athlete – and just all-around awesome person – you understand the importance of nutrition in your routine. No amount of exercise will fill the gaps in a poorly...

Why Sports Nutrition Is For Everyone, Not Just Pros

Why Sports Nutrition Is For Everyone, Not Just ...

If you’re an athletic person, you’re probably at least vaguely aware of “sports nutrition”—a discrete branch of nutritional science that focuses on increasing performance. You might also be aware that...

Run Faster and Jump Higher with these Proven Foot Stretches

Run Faster and Jump Higher with these Proven Fo...

Do you want a longer stride? A higher jump? A faster leg turnover? Less leg fatigue? Spending five minutes, twice a week, to improve the arches of your feet may...

Food Labels Translated: Top 10 Ingredients to Avoid

Food Labels Translated: Top 10 Ingredients to A...

Even food that seem like they should be pretty straightforward – like a potato chip, for example – are typically loaded with a myriad of complex, confusing additives. And, yes,...

Toning vs. Bulking Up: The 5 Most Common Myths

Toning vs. Bulking Up: The 5 Most Common Myths

The health and fitness realm is loaded with all sorts of myths – some are just confusing and counterproductive while others can be legitimately dangerous. To help clear things up,...

Healthy Protein Packed Chocolate Ice Cream!

Healthy Protein Packed Chocolate Ice Cream!

Imagine the best chocolate, soft-serve ice cream you have ever had. Maybe you just got done with a workout, it’s hot outside, and you are ready to refuel with something...

Fitness Face-off: Crossfit vs. Traditional Weightlifting

Fitness Face-off: Crossfit vs. Traditional Weig...

Although it may look simplistic at first, you have plenty of options when it comes to strength training. The whole process involves a lot more than just ‘picking things up...

Top 5 Cardio Workouts To Burn Fat the Fastest

Top 5 Cardio Workouts To Burn Fat the Fastest

For years, cardiovascular training has been the go-to method for reducing body fat. And, although recent research has shown that strength training is a more effective way of improving body...

How To Choose The Right Yoga Class

How To Choose The Right Yoga Class

Yoga is an ancient and complex practice that goes a lot deeper than many people realize. In fact, many of the styles that are widely practiced in the West are...

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How To Choose The Right Yoga Class

Basic Protein Chia Seed Pudding

Basic Protein Chia Seed Pudding

There was a time when I ate 6 – 7 “mini meals” per day. I ate this way because I thought it was the “right” way to eat. Fad diets...

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Basic Protein Chia Seed Pudding

Is Your Gym Equipment Lying to You?

Is Your Gym Equipment Lying to You?

If you’ve been around the health and fitness realm for any length of time, you’re familiar with calories. You’re probably also (all too familiar) with the idea that created a...

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Is Your Gym Equipment Lying to You?

7 Tips to Keeping the Weight Off

7 Tips to Keeping the Weight Off

While you may not what to hear this, it’s an important truth: Dieting is risky business. In fact, many sources as much as 80 percent of people who lose weight...

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7 Tips to Keeping the Weight Off

The Truth About Antioxidants and How They Work

The Truth About Antioxidants and How They Work

The health and fitness world is fueled by buzzwords; Words or phrases that immediately make us believe that a food is infinitely better for us, or even required for us...

5 Training Techniques For Beginning Swimmers

5 Training Techniques For Beginning Swimmers

Swimming is an incredibly effective way to increase both strength and cardiovascular fitness. But, while many people know how to swim recreationally, getting in the water as a form of...

Gnarly's Summer Bucket List – 2015

Gnarly's Summer Bucket List – 2015

These days, everybody’s got at least one bucket list – even Gnarly. And summer is the time to get junk done. So, what does Gnarly want to do this summer?...

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Gnarly's Summer Bucket List – 2015

5 Ways To Stay In Shape On Vacation

5 Ways To Stay In Shape On Vacation

A few weeks ago, we gave you a few tips on maintaining a healthy diet while on vacation. In keeping with Gnarly’s efforts to help you stay active, healthy and...

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5 Ways To Stay In Shape On Vacation

The 10 Most Gnarly Adventures

The 10 Most Gnarly Adventures

There are plenty of so-called “classic” vacations destinations that people immediately think of when they start planning their travels. Unfortunately, most of these are actually pretty… well, boring. For many,...

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The 10 Most Gnarly Adventures

3 Tips for Exercising in the Heat

3 Tips for Exercising in the Heat

People naturally just want to get outside during the summer. It’s warm (or hot), the sun is out and we tend to have more time off. It’s perfect. But that...

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3 Tips for Exercising in the Heat