We eat a lot of eggs. We really should get some chickens.

Since we eat eggs for breakfast just about every day we commonly get questioned about the cholesterol in them.

The question behind the questions is usually based on the notion that since egg yolks are relatively high in cholesterol, eating them regularly could lead to having high blood cholesterol and higher risk of heart disease.

Truth be told, I bet if you walked up to 20 people on the street and asked them if the cholesterol in eggs is dangerous, just about all of them would say yes, even though they aren’t really even sure what cholesterol is and how people end up with high cholesterol.

So let’s dig in and see if we can clear up some of this confusion.

There was a time that I believed this.

We’ve been doing this for a long time and there have been plenty of “bro-science” claims like this made during that time. Luckily, research and science have come a long way also and we can speak with much more certainty about both pre and post workout nutrition thanks to that research and our understanding of the human body.

To understand pre and post workout nutrition we need to talk both about the body and the food we put into it.

We all have different goals when it comes to what we are trying to accomplish with our workouts. Some of us desire to run long distances. Some of us want to get as strong as possible. Some of us want to be well-rounded and generally fit for life, and some of us want to grow bigger stronger muscles. You might have to goal to get bigger muscles and not even know it. Many of our clients want to look more “toned”. Toned is code for having larger (not massive) muscles, that you can actually see because they’re visible under low body fat percentages.

If you want to make your muscles grow, your training needs to be biased in that direction and it needs to have a few key components and considerations which we will dive into today.

Have you every started down the path of a workout or project or good intention and the ‘work’ you are doing is tough so you do something to make it a little easier on yourself?  

Maybe you are doing curls and you swing the bar a little instead of struggling through the rep.

Maybe you have food ready to eat at home but you pick up something up that seems better instead.

I know I am guilty of these things. And then after some time I realize the ‘temporary relief’ I am experiencing while taking the easy way out is not helping me accomplish anything so I then begin to put in the real work.

I do the movement or task like it was intended, I get up earlier, I turn off the TV and pick up the book, I eat the food I’ve already prepared… all of the things I should have been doing the whole time. 

Even then, when I’m done, instead of being proud of myself and feeling awesome and accomplished, I’m disappointed in myself and regretful of the time I wasted.  

What I take away from times like these is that hard work is hard for a reason. 

You get something out of it. 

What is the common theme of the sentences below?

People who have money have saved more often than they’ve over spent.

People who are lean have eaten well more often than they’ve eaten bad.

People who have muscle mass have lifted weights more often than they haven’t.

If you guessed ‘consistency’ you are correct!

They’ve saved, eaten well and/or worked out with weights more often than they haven’t… consistently.

Don’t let one more day pass before you start being consistent on that thing that you’ve been waiting to start and trying to start and reaching for.

Start with us. Start today!

Everyone has their own reason for wanting to get in shape. It could be after a major life event, in anticipation of a special occasion, or sometimes people come to us for help because they are just plain fed up with what they see in the mirror.

The motivation is often rooted in an unhappiness with themselves and what they’ve allowed their physical body to become. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to improve your health so that you are happier with the way that you look. It’s not the answer to fulfillment in life, but it is a noble effort.

The main reason that we want to take people on a journey that results in them changing their physical body is because their lives could potentially count on it.

Being overweight or obese is a life threatening condition.

Our bodies were not made to carry excessive levels of body fat. Buckle your seatbelts because here come some shocking statistics.

According to the CDC (Center for Disease Controls), 72% of adults over 20 years old are overweight. Read that again.

We have news.  Big, exciting, scary news.  We are all in.

How many diamond push-ups can you do in 1:00?

Six weeks into the new ‘YOU’ and your summer vacay hits. You’ve been hitting your workouts consistently, eating well consistently and not giving into the sweet temptations that you used to.

Don’t let a vacation destroy you and cause you to return further behind then when you left.

INSTEAD… vacation like a pro by having a blast all the while using self control along the way.

Think about this…