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Free Your Mind: How To Train Your Brain For The Big Race

If you are ready to win the big race but your mind is telling you to slow down, then you may need to strengthen your mental fitness. Retooling your self-talk could make the difference of meeting th...

Kicking The Blues - Mental Illness Awareness Week

October kicks off Mental Illness Awareness Week. While mental health should be discussed year-round, this week is an important time to shine a light on subjects that might not be brought in the pub...

Intermittent Fasting - Fad Or Science?

The health and fitness community is enamored with intermittent fasting - a system that isn’t a diet but an eating cycle that dictates not what you eat but when you eat it. Is this a fad or does it ...

High Scoring Snacks For Your Tailgate

The thought of eating healthy snacks on game day seems like an even bigger fantasy than winning your pick’em league this week. A lot of the standard ball game fare can be unnecessary roughness to y...

Feeling Stressed?

According to the ADAA (Anxiety and Depression Association of America), seven out of ten Americans claim that their lives are interrupted by daily stress or anxiety. Accumulative effects of stress a...

What's In Your Energy Drink?

Jolt. Monster. 4 Loco. Sparks. AMP. Full Throttle. Rockstar. All these exciting brands that sound like they could either be a sports team or a new car model, claim to capture energy in a tin can. T...

Outdoor Exercise Ideas

One of the best parts about being human is that we have so much at our fingertips. There’s a great big world we can explore, and the only thing keeping us from doing it is us. Now, if you want to g...

The Mighty MCT

For those needing an energy boost, MCTs are a popular way to supplement the diet. What are MCTs? In short, MCT is a medium chain triglyceride. A triglyceride is a chemical structure composed of one...

Pale-Yo – Get Your Protein

With all the various diet crazes that come and go: South Beach, Atkins, Ovo-Lacto, Whole 30, The Werewolf diet, a diet where you pee on a stick…a diet where you eat cotton balls (seriously?), most ...

Foods You Shouldn't Eat Before Bed

We’re all guilty of wanting that quick snack before heading to bed. In general, you shouldn’t eat food later than 2 to 3 hours before you head to bed, which isn’t always easy with busy schedules. W...

Keto Diet

The ketogenic diet has gained an enormous amount of traction in recent years, boasting the ability to eat high-fat foods like bacon and avocado as one of the primary keys to its requirements. This ...

Pitfalls of Pre-Packaged Foods

It’s pretty safe to say, fresh food is best. But, we also know how difficult it is to always have fresh meals prepared. One can start the week with the best of intentions of meal prepping for the w...