CHAPTER 5 – Whole Foods that Naturally Maintain Hormonal Balance and Reduce Inflammation
I posted Chapter 5 from my book, "The Forever an Athlete Program", to highlight the link between food, mood, performance, and the role of anti-inflammatory foods:A key to overall health includes focusing on a diet high in vegetables, fruits, nuts, lean proteins, whole grains; exercising every day; and paying attention to mental and spiritual health. An extension to this is making...
Fueling Physical and Mental Recovery with Smaller Meals and Nutrient Timing
There is a definitive link between food, mood, and physical recovery. Sports nutritionists often recommend precise timing of micro- and macro-nutrients following sporting events and workouts, since these meals can mean the difference between enhanced performance or minimal recovery. I recommend the following two recovery meals to my clients who are busy professionals and still maintain an athletic life. I...
“The Forever an Athlete Program” – Book Launch!
Hello friends, family, and clients, I am excited to launch my new book, “The Forever an Athlete Program: Discover Innovative Ways to Build a Functionally Strong, Lean, and Durable Physique, While Integrating Delicious, Nutrient-Dense Foods to Revitalize Mind and Body”!...
Top Ten Foods for Athletes and Busy Professionals in Their 30s, 40s, and Beyond
Whether you are just starting a program, or you're a multi-sport athlete, you should be aware of the changing macro- and micro-nutrient requirements that are needed as you enter a new decade of life. First off, celebrate any new year alive, and treat it as a gift to advance your health, your career, your spirit, and your relationships. Some of the...
8 Secrets to Healthy Eating and Money Saving (While Simultaneously Outsmarting Your Local Supermarket)
In my book, "The Forever an Athlete Program", I discuss a variety of healthy strategies for selecting high nutrient foods, snacks, and meals, which will help fuel athletic and work performance. Additional strategies include:1. Colors - Pay attention to colors that signify our innate cues for danger/passion (reds), and growth/success (greens). Food formulators play upon our primal urges. Glow-in-the-dark greens...
10 Essential Steps to Detox your Body and Reduce Inflammation
In the morning immediately following a long trip (or Vegas Weekend), drink warm water with lemon and a pinch of Celtic Sea Salt. Drink Yogi Detox Teas with lemon, turmeric spice, and Beet Juice extract. This combination will help cleanse your kidneys as well as provide ample anti-inflammatory compounds. Metagenics UltraInflamX also offers anti-inflammatory effects....
Cold Weather Bodybuilding Fuel
When the cold weather hits, I encourage my clients to maintain their training and nutrition program by creating hot, nutrient dense, and delicious breakfast fuel, like this one below. My favorite contains ample slow release carbohydrates including hemp seeds, oats, quinoa, blueberries, almonds, coconut, cinnamon, turmeric, milk, and whey protein....
Minktraining nutrition, and “healthy” foods to avoid
The following link validates some points of my nutrition philosophy: eat closer to the source, eat raw as much as possible, eat sustainably harvested and non-threatened wild fish, eat a variety of natural colors each day, eat small snacks throughout the day, avoid processed junk, and eat organic when possible (or at least peel the skin).http://health.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=31737&content=61606507&pageNum=-1...
Bodybuilding Nutrition, Fueled by COSTCO
Money is tight and time is valuable. Yet, time strapped athletes still need nutrients and carbohydrates to power through their workouts and ample protein to rebuild muscle tissue. Since I advocate whole food sources, not prepared/”road” foods, and very few supplements, COSTCO enters as a great place to shop for sports nutrition. Not every item is purchased on each trip, but I...
Why You Need These 5 Powerful Nutrients
My working definition of sports performance nutrition is “identifying the whole food sources that contain the basic micronutrients and macronutrients necessary to sustain energy during athletic events, replenish muscle glycogen stores following exercise, repair and build lean muscle tissue, and reduce overall systemic inflammation following rigorous activities or injury.” This is a working definition, and thus can be augmented. Since knowledge is...