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05/08/2024

Summer is here in Miami and it is a hot one 🔥🥵

I get asked a lot whether or not I think sports drinks are helpful for your average person and this week, I had RDN Grace Scarborough come back to share her thoughts as a retired athlete and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist!

Check out the link below and find out if drinking sports drinks is worthwhile or note

In the world of health and fitness there are many choices, including a multitude of different sports drinks. But do you really need one? In this article Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Grace Scarborough gives you a short & simple walk-through on the basics of sports drinks.What are sports drinks?....

01/19/2024

Every once and a while, some article will show up with the headline “Grip strength prevents early death” or “Push Ups prevent heart attacks”

These articles aren’t lying as much as they’re misunderstanding what the research is showing

Scientists need to find a way to measure someone’s general fitness level. Now remember: these are scientists and not personal trainers, needing to quickly get data from people who may have a whole range of considerations. The default plan is to pick “fitness tests” that can be run by anyone on anyone: grip strength tests are one of them

Other common tests are chest press machines, leg extension machines, curls, and treadmill tests

Scientists assume that people who do well on these tests (ie move a lot of weight or perform a lot of reps), then they’re probably decently fit overall - in general, this is a fair assumption.

Next time you read xyz exercise is the secret to long life, understand that what they are actually saying is this:

Being fit is the secret to long life.

01/17/2024

“Need” is being defined as stimulating the body well enough to minimize lean tissue loss (muscle & bone), while also spurring some growth and strength development - yes, it’s a vague definition lol

You would pick a single movement like a squat and simply continue to add weight each set until you can’t do more than 3-5 reps

I personally train much differently and I train my clients much differently, but if you really hated weight training or needed to cut down on time, this would check off the box well enough for general health & wellness

01/12/2024

The number one rule drilled into me while I learned how to counsel behavior change was the importance of meeting people where they are

Fun fact: people (seemingly) are more likely to start taking a multivitamin or protein powder before they start paying close attention to their nutrition or fixing their sleep

Are they focusing on the trees and missing the forest? Eh, maybe

Overhauling their entire lifestyle is gonna take time though and if their first step in doing that is deciding to take creatine along with their friends, then I am 100% for it

And if you want to turn people off and away from you, then launching into a lecture of the importance of Whole Foods when someone just asks about vitamins is a good way to do it

Meet people where they are. Supplements, in general, likely will have no negative side effects besides their cost, and probably are the first things people are willing to try

Note: can we also stop calling protein powder a supplement? I get it, but it’s more a food than a supplement - do you call pancake mix a supplement? No you do not

01/11/2024

I love this phrase (credit to David Neill for being the first person to tell me it)

In fitness, this could look like sacrificing sleep to get a fasted cardio session in

In nutrition, this could look like dropping a lot of money on “joint support” supplements while your water & fat intake is simply abysmal

Perhaps the most important lesson you could learn in life is learning how to properly prioritize the different things you can do - figuring out which changes you should do out of all the things you can do

11/28/2023

As a general rule, if you think you’re going deep enough…

You aren’t

For squats I mean

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03/08/2023

When Tyra Johansson stepped in to run Eleiko in the 1950s, the company was a producer of small electrical appliances like waffle irons.

At the time barbells were regularly bending or breaking at weightlifting competitions. Tyra made the decision to create a better barbell.

To implement that change, Eleiko needed a loan from the bank where the company had been a customer for decades.

The bank refused her request, Tyra was not even offered a seat at the bank office. The bank’s decision had nothing to do with the company’s financial standing, she was denied because she was a woman.

Tyra did not give up. She went to another bank and finally received a loan. The rest is history. Eleiko's new barbell was the first to hold up for an entire World Cup and you might say that it was a spark that helped create a weightlifting revolution.

Today Eleiko has been manufacturing barbells and other strength equipment for more than 60 years.

In celebration of International Women's Day, we pay tribute to Tyra, a strong woman who helped improve weightlifting and made the world a little stronger.

Every day we are constantly reminded of Tyra's strength. Our tagline “Raise the Bar” is a tribute to her and everyone else who is pushing their boundaries and becoming stronger.

Gender equality has come a long way since the 1950s, but there is still injustice. This is what we are trying to do from our side to decrease them.

Product: We work actively with our products to ensure they appeal to both women and men, small but important details such as the size of the grip on can have a big impact.

Marketing: We work to make more people stronger and believe strength is part of living life to the fullest. Strength does not belong to a particular gender, it is for everyone.

We aim to have a balance of men and women in our pictures. We have a policy against sexism. In our images or in other marketing material, we focus on performance.

Eleiko as an employer: We work actively to have a gender diversity across the company.

We know we can continue to raise the bar, and we try to be a little better and more equal every day. If you believe we can improve in some way, please let us know!

12/14/2021

Okay so a “news story” going around about a Chef suing McDonald’s is once again taking off with this photo of what looks like Great Value Elon Musk photoshopped over the Golden Arches acting as the thumbnail

This story is over 10 years old at this point so even taking it at face value, it’s pretty outdated. It’s accusations about McDonald’s food is also pretty laughable if you know anything about the food industry outside of YouTube documentaries and fringe websites

All that being said, if you’re dead set on believing McDonald’s is the devil incarnate and refuse to eat, I’m not gonna argue the point. If less people ate at McDonald’s, it would probably be a good thing

In conclusion, this is a good example of one of those reoccurring food myths that is silly but isn’t really worth my time trying to disprove since people believing it would just end up doing what I’d recommend anyways 🤷🏾‍♂️

12/07/2021

Fun fact: red meat spikes your insulin higher than brown pasta, white pasta, and porridge

(To be clear: how a food effects your insulin levels is pretty meaningless for your average person)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9356547/

12/05/2021

The health benefits from going vegan/vegetarian/“plant-based” comes from eating more fruits and veggies

Not from cutting out animal products