Hey there, My brother got married to my new Sister In-Law. this weekend. It was beautiful, at the SB Natural History Museum, misty and light rain. Casey played the guitar for the ceremony, and I gave my first best man speech to my only brother and the woman of his dreams. We all danced the [...]
March 18, 2012 – 11:42 pm
The Vegetarian Myth – Lierre Keith on Peak Moment Take 30 minutes to watch this video interview with Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth. This book should not only be required reading for all school children, but also for anyone looking to improve their health and live sustainably and responsibly on this planet. And [...]
January 23, 2012 – 2:39 pm
Aches and pains are an inevitable part of anyone’s fitness journey. Do they happen because we are broken? Because we’re not cut out for functional exercise? Quite the opposite in fact. Aches and pains, rather than being annoyances we should dull, mask and otherwise try to ignore or accept, are in fact valuable pieces of information telling us precisely what we need to work on to make ourselves healthier.
What is protein? Protein can be thought of as the ‘bricks’ of the human body (the ‘mortar’ is fat, but we’ll get there in a future post). Protein makes up our hair, skin, nails, muscles, new cells of all kinds in addition to hormones, neurotransmitters and many other types of intercellular messengers. Proteins are composed [...]
December 20, 2010 – 10:07 pm
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December 1, 2010 – 5:06 pm
The average person sits for nearly 80,000 hours from the age of 20 to 65. To your spine, that’s like eating Starburst and Ho-Ho’s all day and never brushing your teeth! You’ve got to maintain the health of your nervous system – Here’s how.
October 12, 2010 – 5:36 am
Being fit is easy. Living a healthy life is easy. Having a 6 pack, curves, and lines in all the right places is easy. WAIT! Before you grab your pitchforks and torches, I want to be clear I do not intend to belittle the challenges faced by those currently lacking fitness. On the contrary, it’s [...]
Your body is an incredible complex of systems. Your lifestyle choices and behaviors will determine how well those systems function, especially your immune system. If you’re trying to make a change to your body, be it building more muscle, burning fat, jumping higher, running faster, or just keeping up with your kids, staying healthy is [...]
This post is about something that just about all of us need to work on. Without it, your fitness is incomplete and you are injuring yourself. The secret sauce that put’s it all together is good posture. Good posture is what takes a Perfect 10 to a Knockout. What is good posture? (It’s not what [...]
Most of us are chronically dehydrated.
Excellent hydration is essential for optimal (normal) function.
All of your body’s internal processes are conducted in water. Water is the medium of life on this planet. If you are dehydrated you are functioning at sub-normal levels physically and mentally. Today we’re going to develop some hydration strategies.
