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Step Your Way to a Better Butt

Step Your Way to a Better Butt

Never skip leg day…you’ve heard the phrase before, so you started hitting the squats and leg press a little more often, but have you been doing your kickbacks and glute bridges? Even though an isolated glute training day may not take a up permanent residency in your tr...
Rx: Anti-Inflamatory Nutrition

Rx: Anti-Inflamatory Nutrition

Whether in the gym or on the job, injuries are bound to occur. Even with taking precautions such as stretching and warming up be before a lift session or wearing sturdy shoes during a basketball game, sometimes injuries are inescapable. Regardless if it’s a sprained wr...
Is Gluten-Free For Me?

Is Gluten-Free For Me?

Gluten is a general name for the proteins found in wheat (wheatberries, durum, emmer, semolina, spelt, farina, farro, graham, KAMUT® khorasan wheat and einkorn), rye, barley and triticale – a cross between wheat and rye. Gluten helps foods maintain their shape, acting as a glue that holds f...
What Are The Benefits Of Probiotics?

What Are The Benefits Of Probiotics?

The gut microbiome is host to more than 1000 bacterial SPECIES that encode for more than 5 million genes. They perform many of the important functions of the gut, like aid in the digestion of foods, immune system development, vitamin synthesis, and ion absorption. When your microbiome becom...
Conquer The Weekend

Conquer The Weekend

            Friday at last!  You might be just counting down the seconds until your work week is behind you and a couple days of decompression and release is in your near future.  We all have our lazy weekends, but the key is to not have one EVERY weekend.  If you’re o...
Fuel Up On Food

Fuel Up On Food

If a car or truck requires specialty fuel like premium or diesel, an owner wouldn’t fill it with regular gas. When thinking of the body as a special mode of transportation, the types of food put into it should become more important. Different types of food provide the ...