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Mar 29th, 2010

Site maintenance

Bear with us for another day or two as we complete some behind-the-scenes site maintenance. The blog looks a little funny, and the fish oil calculator is still in the process of being converted (or whatever our web guru does with stuff like that), but we’ll be back up and running ASAP.

Mar 24th, 2010

Whole9 hits the East Coast

After much behind-the-scenes work, Whole9 is happy to announce two new East Coast nutrition workshops in April! [...]

Mar 22nd, 2010

Explore Your Neighborhood: The Frontier

We're on the road a lot, and while we still "make" about half our meals while traveling (either packing a cooler or picking up food at the local Whole-Foods style market), we do dine out quite a bit. Unfortunately, most restaurants offer a serious set of challenges in our quest to Eat Good Food. [...]

Mar 18th, 2010

The Robb Wolf Fish Oil Calculator

Part of our nutritional recommendations for all of our clients includes recommending the right dose of fish oil. We've written about it before, Robb Wolf talks about fish oil in every one of his podcasts and seminars and even the CrossFit Journal got in on the action a few months back. The general consensus is that fish oil is good for us, and we don't get a lot of push-back from clients when it comes to actually taking the stuff. The trouble starts when clients say, "So how much should I take?" [...]

Mar 15th, 2010

8 weeks. 10,000 miles. Whole9.

We have amazing, fantastic, big-time news - some frexciting changes are taking place here at Whole9. What's the word? After months of planning, Dallas and I have both decided to leave our 9-5 day jobs, so we can take the Whole9 full time. [...]

Mar 11th, 2010

Man Training

Our last couple of posts have been kind of, well, heavy. First we unceremoniously took away your “heart-healthy” Quaker oats, then we went public with our break-up with CrossFit. (Technically, I suppose we were dumped, but no girl wants to admit THAT to her friends.) Since it's been such a tough week, I decided to put a stop to all this seriousness and get back to my roots - an Urban-Gets-Diesel style training post. [...]

Mar 8th, 2010

Parting ways with CrossFit

On February 16th, we received word from CrossFit Headquarters that our affiliation (as CrossFit Whole9) will not be eligible for renewal in 2010. CrossFit wrote: [...]

Mar 3rd, 2010

The Grain Manifesto

We're continuing our "manifesto" series (refer back to dairy and peanuts for our earlier offerings) with the one topic most likely to spur controversy - grains. Our Whole30 program doesn't include grains of any kind - no breads, cereals, pasta, rice, not even fake grains like quinoa or gluten-free substitutes. We're about to tell you why. [...]

Mar 2nd, 2010

Fudge Babies, baby

While at dinner with CrossFit KoP owner Aimee Lyons, she made reference something called "fudge babies". Turns out they're a chocolate fudge-y concoction made with "less bad" ingredients - fruit, nuts and some natural flavoring. Aimee mentioned she'd made them a bunch of times, and they were always the first to go at a party or event. Then she mentioned she had a batch sitting in the fridge at home. [...]

Feb 25th, 2010

This just in – San Diego W9 Workshop!

After a few weeks of planning, we've arrived at a San Diego, CA workshop location, date and time! So for all of those who emailed me... here are the details. [...]