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Best Breakfast for Health, Weight Loss and Athleticism? A Few Awesome Options for You

A few organic eggsWeight loss is not simply about calories in and calories out. Otherwise we would have mathematicians telling us what to eat instead of nutritionists. Our physiology is simply not that simple.

Today let’s talk about breakfast. Beginning your day with these two keys for more energy and successful weight management:

  1. balance your blood sugar (hormones)
  2. fuel your body with a nutrient-dense breakfast that will get you through a great workout and/or a productive day at the office.

It’s All About Your Hormones

Building health, managing your weight and training like an athlete is about understanding and balancing (maybe optimizing is a better word) several hormonal systems in your body. Hormones are barely understood by most people, though we all know they are crazy important. How many times have you accused someone of being “hormonal?” Diabetes is a hormonal issue. What helped Barry Bonds hit home-runs? That’s right, hormones.  Are you feeling stressed about life right now? Stress hormones basically cause your body to store fat and waste muscle. Do you know how a healthy person knows that they are full after eating a meal? A signal to the brain from a hormone.

In an attempt to simplify, here are three categories with a few common hormones you may recognize:Read More »Best Breakfast for Health, Weight Loss and Athleticism? A Few Awesome Options for You

3 Cues to Engage Your Glutes to Build Strength and Fat Burning Potential (while protecting your knees – with short video)

I think most people suffer from three types of amnesia: Gluteal Abdominal Right Brain I say “amnesia” because in each of these cases, we are born with the ability to use each: as children we are able to squat deeply, breath correctly, brace our core and are naturally creative. Slowly but surely, our 21st Century lifestyle strips us of each… Read More »3 Cues to Engage Your Glutes to Build Strength and Fat Burning Potential (while protecting your knees – with short video)

Awesome Ab Dolly Roll-Out by 87 Year Old Paul Cahn – Never Too Old to Get Strong (short video)

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? – Satchel Paige I can’t help but pull out my camera to catch Paul rockin’ out pretty much any part of his weekly workout with me … from jumping rope, to 20 lb dumbbell presses to this sah-weet Ab Dolly Roll Out. This is part of our… Read More »Awesome Ab Dolly Roll-Out by 87 Year Old Paul Cahn – Never Too Old to Get Strong (short video)

Strong, Tone AND Healthy Shoulders with These Two Moves and Cues (with short video)

Unlike most joints in the body, our shoulder is where we (in the Sports Medicine world) say we: “sacrifice stability for mobility.” Mobility is almost always a good thing, especially in the shoulder joint allowing us to move our arm in pretty much every direction, including raising, lowering and rotating them, running like Phoebe in Central Park and throwing a… Read More »Strong, Tone AND Healthy Shoulders with These Two Moves and Cues (with short video)