Certified Personal Trainer, Health and Nutrition Coach
It’s one of the most frequently asked questions I get… “how do I know how much I should be eating?”. This can be a very simple question to answer, or a very complicated one depending on many factors. But we need to start somewhere- so here it is. These are the three steps I useContinue Reading How Much Should You Be Eating?
This article is very specific because of the diet needs of the athlete type we are discussing. Crossfit athletes have unique nutrition needs because of our sport. We don’t just have long aerobic endurance, or short sprints- we have both, and if you are a competitive athlete you may see both in your daily training.Continue Reading Cutting for the Competitive Female Crossfit Athlete
When I was doing research for this article, I came across an article written in 2015 titled “How Will You Work Out When Crossfit Is No Longer Hip?”. Of course I clicked on it, because the title is total click bait for the Crossfitters who are ready to come up in arms against the naysayers,Continue Reading How Crossfit is Building A Culture of Health
According to the CDC, as of 2017, over 100 million Americans are living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. It is one of the most common diagnoses in people over 55, along with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and hypertension. It is also a diagnosis that does not have to be life altering, if the right stepsContinue Reading Type 2 Diabetes- 5 More Things You Can Be Doing to Manage Your Blood Sugar Levels
We are launching a pilot program at Crossfit Humanity in San Diego. Why are we doing this? Because we’ve seen the power of Crossfit to change lives, and we know the effectiveness of health coaching to help those changes remain permanent. We wanted to create a program that provides people with everything they need toContinue Reading Pilot Program- 12 Weeks of Crossfit and Health Coaching
This one is hard for me to write. But it’s been a long time coming. Part of me never wants to share any of this, part of me recognizes that every time I DO share, it helps people. So here we go. 10 years ago this month my brother was shot and killed in aContinue Reading Emotional Resiliency
9 min EMOM 12 Hollow Rocks 8 Toes to Bar 30 Second Plank NOTES -do knees to chest if can’t do toes to bar -shoot for 2 sets of 4 if you can’t do all 8 unbroken Hollow Rock demo Would you like the daily CORE WOD sent right to your inbox? SubscribeContinue Reading May 1st 2018 CORE WOD
12 MIN EMOM Perform each exercise on the minute, rest in the time remaining. Total will be 3 rounds 20 Alternating Jack Knife Sit Ups 20 Leg Lifts 20 Weighted Sit-ups 10 first part of the Turkish get up (5 on each arm then switch) Your abs might hate you some today! NOTES For the weightedContinue Reading April 20th 2018 CORE WOD
For every email I send out with new macros, I get an email back about how many calories I want my athletes to eat. Most can’t believe I am upping their intakes. They hired me to lose weight, and I want them to eat MORE. Then I get follow up emails like… “wait- I getContinue Reading Not Getting The Results You Want? Are You Eating Enough?
The same damn problems with the same damn behavior’s attached to them. Whether it’s debt or weight- it’s all the same. We get stuck in cycles. And then we end up doing the same stupid things, over and over again. The fixes are there, we see them, we have the logic and the know how toContinue Reading Do you have the Courage to Change?