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Navigating the Holidays: Embracing Healthy Habits for a Wholesome Celebration

The holiday season is a time of joy, warmth, and togetherness. However, it often comes hand in hand with indulgent feasts, sugary treats, and sedentary gatherings. While it’s tempting to throw caution to the wind and fully embrace the festive spirit, maintaining healthy habits during the holidays is crucial for your well-being. Here are some tips to help you navigate the season without compromising your health. 1. Mindful Eating: One of the cornerstones of a healthy holiday season is practicing mindful eating. It’s easy to get carried away with the plethora of delicious dishes, but take the time to savor each bite. Pay attention to your body’s signals of fullness, and listen to them. By eating slowly and consciously, you’ll not only enjoy your food more but also avoid overeating. 2. Balanced Plates: When faced with a buffet of tempting treats, strive for balance on your plate. Load up on colorful vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains before indulging in rich desserts. A balanced meal will help regulate your blood sugar levels and provide sustained energy throughout the festivities. 3.…

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Fruit Is Not The Enemy

Many popular diet fads will tell you to avoid all carbs. That would mean also avoiding fruits. The main issue with fad diets is that they are not designed to create lasting positive healthy habits. Lasting success in the gym and on your fitness journey is a combination consistency and intensity with you training and good nutrition habits. Small changes create lasting changes. Lasting changes create lasting results. Today we are talking about the benefits of adding fruit into your nutrition regiment. Fruits are a delicious and nutritious addition to any diet. They are a rich source of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber, all of which are essential for maintaining good health. Here are just a few of the many health benefits of including fruits in your diet: Fruits are a great source of vitamins and minerals. For example, citrus fruits are high in Vitamin C, which helps to boost the immune system and protect against infection. Berries, such as blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries, are rich in antioxidants, which help to protect cells from damage caused by free radicals.Fruits are…

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Healthy Nutrition Habits

Too often people use excuses to justify bad eating habits. In addition, extreme dieting during the week and extreme cheat meals on the weekends will produce no results. There is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying your favorite guilty pleasure snack or meal. However, it is important that these snacks and meals are within your caloric goals. Food is fuel for performance. Your body is a machine and healthy food is needed for it to function properly. If you are struggling with your nutrition, start with setting 1 small nutrition habit at a time. Once you master that nutrition habit, add a new nutrition habit. Setting positive nutrition habits is a process. You do not need to change everything all at one. Here are a few healthy nutrition habits that would be great to incorporate. Eating a balanced diet that includes a variety of nutrient-dense foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats.Choosing foods that are minimally processed and free of added sugars and unhealthy fats.Eating in moderation and avoiding overeating.Staying hydrated by drinking enough water and…

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Simple Tips For Weight Loss After Quarrantine

The gyms are back open and it is time to fully get back on track. Many people had a hard time staying on track with nutrition during the lockdown. It is common to snack more on unhealthy foods or overeat when you feel out of rhythm. Let us put that in the past and focus on life getting back on track. Track your calories and make note of you felt before and after eating. Did you eat because you were hungry or did you eat because you were bored? Watch your meal timing. Try to have you biggest meals earlier in the day. Small healthy snacks (baby carrots for example) help reduce hunger and keep your metabolism burning. Minized saturated fats, sugary foods, and refined foods. DO NOT SKIP BREAKFAST Eat every 3-4 hours. Remember a couple baby carrots as a snack count as a meal. Have protein with every meal. Eat within 2 hours of exercise. Avoid fried foods. Use non fat cooking sprays. Increase fiber intake (25-35 grams per day) . This will help keep you full. Eat…

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What Supplements to Start With?

You have set the habit of going to the gym, made positive changes to your eating habits, and are ready to crank up the workout intensity. “What supplements should I take?” and “Do I need supplements?” are very common questions. The supplement industry has dramatically grown over the last decade by expanding supplement categories. This growth has made it easier to find products directly related to your individual goals. Categories range from pre-workout, intra workout, post workout, protein, mass gainer, vitamins, fat burners, and joint support just to name a few. Remember, the purpose of sports nutrition supplements is to work in conjunction with your healthy eating lifestyle. Sports nutrition supplements without healthy eating will not produce drastic results. On the other side of coin, many goals and results are possible without sports nutrition supplements but they do make life more convenient and the process more effective. Since you are still in the early stages of your fitness journey, I recommend starting with a protein supplement. The purpose of protein is to help the muscle…

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Thanksgiving Fitness Tips

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. A turkey feast and endless amounts of dessert are what comes to mind when we think about the iconic Thanksgiving meal. My dessert of choice for Thanksgiving is cheesecake. Unfortunately, Thanksgiving is also iconic for overindulging on desserts, followed by guilt and some extra unwanted weight. With that being said, here are a few tips to help you have the best Thanksgiving meal GUILT FREE. Exercise Thanksgiving morning Doing a workout Thanksgiving morning will help you be in a calorie deficit. This means there will be more room in your daily caloric intake for that dessert. *There will be a Core Specific class 8:15A.M. Thanksgiving morning* Don’t skip meals during the day Skipping meals before your morning workout to “build up an appetite” for the feast will make you more likely to binge eat by the time dinner is served. Make protein the priority Begin your Thanksgiving meal with the turkey (protein source). This will help your muscles recover from your intense morning workout and…

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Kraken by Sparta Nutrition Available at The Pro-Shop

Are you hitting a plateau in your workouts? Are you looking for the extra boost to take your workout to the next level? Maybe your goal is to add weight to your deadlift or squat or improve your time for your next WOD. A good pre-workout will give you that extra boot to hit your goals. Kraken by Sparta Nutrition is an excellent product to help you become an Elite Athlete. This products will improved focus, energy, pump, endurance and has no proprietary blend. Loaded with 200 MG DHMA, 4 G L CITRULLINE AND 3.2 G BETA ALANINE, Kraken is the ultimate EXTREME PRE WORKOUT.

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Core Specific Nutrition

Remember proper nutrition is a key component while training with Core Specific Boot Camps and Core Specific Express Classes. Here is a quick and easy healthy Berry Protein shake recipe!! INGREDIENTS 1 cup mix frozen berries 1 scoop Vanilla Myofusion protein (available at the pro-shop) 1 cup Vanilla Almond Milk unsweetened 1 cup Ice Cubes Blend all of the ingredients together and there you go, a quick and healthy berry protein shake.

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