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Everything You Need to Know About Squats
Who doesn’t love leg day? Okay, maybe a lot of people don’t love it, but you know you can’t skip it. Your legs are a huge part of your body they...
Everything You Need to Know About Squats
Who doesn’t love leg day? Okay, maybe a lot of people don’t love it, but you know you can’t skip it. Your legs are a huge part of your body they need to be exercising well in order for you to be the best Athlete you can be. One of the best exercises you can do is a...
What is “Intermittent Fasting”?
One of the most popular trends in today’s health, fitness, and diet world is something called intermittent fasting. You may have heard of it, you may have even tried it out! Basically, intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that focuses on creating daily cycles of...
The Traits of a Good Role Model
What makes you a good role model? How do you become somebody who people look up to? You probably have people in your life that you look up to, people who motivate you to be better just by being themselves. They’re successful, they’re confident, and they’re kind. We...
How Courageous were You this Week?
Happy Friday! You’re at the end of another successful week, so it’s time to celebrate. Hopefully, you finished everything you needed to and more. As you go into the weekend, think about everything you did this week. You exercised, you got your work done, and you...
Why is protein so important for recovery?
When it comes to eating for fitness, you’ve probably heard of protein. Protein is one of the three major macronutrients that can be found in the food we eat (protein, carbohydrates, and fats), and it is incredibly important if you want to live a happy, healthy...
Why You Actually Need to Eat Your Veggies?
As a kid, it takes a lot of courage to eat your vegetable. Nobody – especially a kid – wants kale over mac and cheese and cookies. As an adult, though, you know you need vegetables. You may still not like them (you may still not even eat them – please eat them). But...
It Takes Courage to Succeed
"Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it." -- Bryce Courtenay Being complacent is easy. Being unhealthy is easy. Doing the right thing for you and your family every single day? Now that's hard. That...
How Do You Celebrate a Victory?
You’ve been fighting personal battles throughout your life. With others, with goals, and with yourself. You’ve won some, you’ve lost some. That’s just life. We oftentimes don’t acknowledge the battles we win, even though winning those battles is something to...
What are the Benefits of Yoga?
At this point, you definitely know what yoga is and you’ve probably even tried it once or twice. It is a wildly popular form of exercise that has been around for thousands of years. Yoga in some form is believed to have been practiced in India over five thousand...
How to eat for healthy bones?
A Guide to Eating for Bone Health. When we think about eating healthily, we often think about losing fat and building muscle. Fat and muscle are essential parts of your body. Fat helps to fuel your body, while the muscle is a crucial part of the movement. One major...
Remember where you came from
Don’t Forget Your Past -- Use it! Everybody who has ever lived has had difficult times in their life. We all have our own unique, individual battles that we fight every day. These battles are what define us as individuals. Our struggles are what make us who we are....
How to celebrate crossing the future finish line?
Steps to Visualize the Future! It’s Friday, so that means it’s time to ‘celebrate.’ This week, the theme for our blogs is ‘endurance.’ Part of having endurance realizes there’s a long road ahead and continues anyway by celebrating what is yet to come. How exactly do...