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Ice Age: Rethinking Icing Injuries and Sore Muscles

I remember when I went to the nurse in high school for a medley of ailments, and it seemed like no matter what the symptom was, a pack of ice was the associated prescription. Headache? Put ice on it. Muscle pain? Put ice on it. The building was on fire? Throw ice on it. Okay, the last one…

How Physical Fitness Helps Those in Addiction Recovery

Maintaining a Long-Term Healthy Routine By Guest Blogger  Travis White Due to all the wear and tear put on the body by substance and alcohol abuse, many people who suffer addiction typically feel tired, depleted and often depressed. When you’re trying to incorporate a healthier way of liv…

Stress Less to Lift More

You wake-up abruptly to the sound of your alarm clock. You press snooze, and then jolt up about 5 minutes later. Then, you scramble to find clothes to wear, brush your hair, brush your teeth and race out of the house to the car. While you're driving to work, you are constantly checkin…

Sleep: The Missing Part of A Workout Routine

Training and adequate nutrition are two integral ingredients in the recipe for health and wellness. In our culture that thrives around going at all hours of the day, we can easily forget the most important element of the list: sleep! It's quite typical, now, to brag about how little s…

The Ab Exercise You're Doing Incorrectly

You work these muscles 23,000 times a day, on average, but chances are, you're using them incorrectly. In our sleep-deprived, high stress lifestyles, many of us are breathing incorrectly several thousand times a day, everyday over the course of our lives. The core musculature like the…

Training Hard VS. Training Smart

For some people, finding the motivation to get to the gym can be incredibly difficult. Others, I have found, seem to have the opposite problem. Perhaps you've found that you feel guilty if you don't workout one day. Maybe you constantly feel sore, but you don't want to stunt y…

My List of Product Recommendations!

My clients and friends often ask me what type of supplements/fitness products I use. Here's my list of product recommendations for you holiday wish list! Please note that, aside from GoMacro, I do not endorse any of these products, so I do not receive anything for writing these review…

Rest and Relaxation: How Often Should You Rest?

A lot of people get so eager to see results in the gym, and they spend 6-7 days a week putting themselves through grueling workouts. While dedication in the gym is important, we must also make sure we give our bodies enough time to recover. I think it's pretty safe to say that many of…

6 Ways to Overcome a Plateau and Start Getting Stronger Again

In fitness, as in life, we are always looking to move forward. If you're putting in the hard work in the gym, you should only continue to progress, right? Well, ideally, yes. Many, unfortunately hit a plateau somewhere along the way that may leave them feeling unmotivated or discourag…

Muscle Recovery for Athletes

The intensity levels required to successfully train for a triathlon or marathon eventually take their toll on a body in one way or another. Athletes involved in training at this level need to look at their nutrition, overall body conditioning, and recovery as well keeping up to date with …