Track Your Nutrition for Great Results

It doesn’t matter whether you are doing P90X, Insanity, Les Mills PUMP, Les Mills COMBAT or skipping rope, if you want GREAT results you have to pay attention to what you are putting in your body.  Luis Mordan, from www.oneforcefitness.com, has some really helpful tips for busy professionals on tracking your nutrition.  Check them out… [Continue Reading]

90/10 Nutrition Challenge Groups

90/10 Nutrition Challenge Group

We often talk about the 80/20 Rule when it comes to health, fitness and nutrition.  Basically, that means that 80% of what you eat is good quality, whole, nutritious foods designed to fuel your body.  20%…well, not so much. 80/20 yields good results because it is manageable and forces you to make good decisions the… [Continue Reading]

Simple Vegetable Recipe

Ultimate Reset Recipes

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, my post Ultimate Reset cleanse nutrition plan is to eat vegetarian 3 or 4 days per week and, of course, generally eat healthy otherwise. This is one of my favorite vegetable recipes.  We have some variation of this at least once a week.  It couldn’t be more simple to… [Continue Reading]

Preparing for the End – The Ultimate Reset Cleanse Review

Ultimate Reset Cleanse

Ok, well not really.  That’s a bit dramatic, but after 4 days that have featured 2 cups of my beloved coffee it sure feels appropriate.  Monica and I will be starting Beachbody’s Ultimate Reset cleanse on April 19th, after she returns from a mission trip to Ecuador.  We are really excited about hitting the reset… [Continue Reading]

Insanity Nutrition Guide Made Easy

Insanity

Insanity Nutrition Plan From the people that brought you The P90X Nutrition Plan Made Easy, we proudly present our breakdown of the Insanity Nutrition Guide.  We are following the meal plan approach and trying to stick with the plan as best we can.  The nutrition plan is fairly straight forward.  The Insanity diet plan includes… [Continue Reading]

TEDxIowaCity – Dr. Terry Wahls – Minding Your Mitochondria

TED TALK

A friend passed this video of TEDxIowaCity – Dr. Terry Wahls – Minding Your Mitochondria along to me the other day. It makes a very compelling case for proper nutrition and whole foods, in particular the paleo diet. This is important, so please watch it.

Reprogramming Your Genes

The Primal Blueprint

I’ve recently started reading Mark Sisson’s 21 Day Total Body Transformation (“21 Day”) and I thought I’d share my thoughts and my experiences since I started adopting the Primal/Paleo lifestyle in early 2010.  I also thought I’d discuss specific issues/concepts throughout the book and, again, share my experience. I first heard about Mark and The… [Continue Reading]

Healthy Squash Soup

Yet another recipe in the books! This is exceptionally easy to make and really tasty.  Watch the video.  Go to the store and get some veggies and then let us know what you thought by leaving a comment.  

Shakeology® and P90X®

Recently Steve Edwards, Director of Results at Beachbody, wrote the following article discussing how Shakeology fits into the P90X Nutrition Guide.  A lot of people are confused by this and many have asked me how these two things fit together. I wanted to republish Steve’s article here as a resource for those wondering how to… [Continue Reading]

An Apple a Day!

For about a month now, I’ve been eating an apple every day.  This started quite by accident.  One day I was foraging around in the kitchen and came across an apple.  What a great snack.  Then, I ate one the next day and the next.  Pretty soon, it became a habit (i.e. addiction). I don’t… [Continue Reading]