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The Whole9 Envoy Extraordinaire Program

We are excited to announce a new resource for our nutrition programs – a new source of inspiration, motivation and encouragement for our readers, and an important sounding board and focus group for us. We’ll be collaborating with some hand-picked folks who have made significant contributions to the Whole9 community, enthusiastically participated (and succeeded!) with [...]

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We are thankful

For the remainder of the week, we’ll be re-posting some “best of” Whole9 articles, and putting away our computer to spend time with family and friends. Today, we’d like to reflect on the past year, and express some gratitude. [...]

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Taking note

By Melissa, who is gunning for five gorgeous dead hang pull-ups Last weekend, we visited CrossFit Denton County and presented both our Foundations and Trainer’s nutrition workshops.  We brought along a special guest for this particular Trainer’s event – Dutch Lowy, CrossFit Level II trainer, competitive Olympic weightlifter and strength and conditioning educational speaker.  Dutch [...]

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The conscientious omnivore

As we’ve got the “choices” part down, we’ve spent the last few months expanding on the concept of “eating healthy food.” The natural place for us to start was taking a good, hard look at our food quality – specifically, where our animal protein comes from. You are what you eat, quite literally, and we believe they health of the animals you eat impacts your own health in a far more direct manner than, say, the quality of your vegetables or fruits. [...]

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Finding our voice

We finally received our advance copy of Robb Wolf’s new book, The Paleo Solution. Dallas and I have been taking turns reading it as fast as we can, making notes for our review (coming next week). Last night, while re-reading the section on sleep, I came to this line: [...]

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Our visit to Sharp Rehabilitation Center

While in San Diego last week, Dallas and I the opportunity to speak with both patients and staff at Sharp Rehabilitation Center. Sharp has been a leading provider of rehabilitation and physical therapy services for 45 years, addressing catastrophic injury with a team approach to wellness. [...]

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Whole9 is on the move…

New protocol for the site – we’re setting up “announcement” style posts (either PR pitches for upcoming events, or notices about the site or our whereabouts) in an abbreviated format, to differentiate them from our juicier blog posts.  So today, no photos, no flash -  just a quick announcement. We’ll be on the road again [...]

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Give your sugar tantrums a time-out

We like to take some comments on the site “Main Page”, if we feel there’s a good question, commentary or lesson to be learned. And yesterday, we received a comment from Susan that hit home – and spoke to one of the most important reasons why we created and continue to promote the Whole30 program as a way to “change your life in 30 days”. The comment is as follows: [...]

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Unplug, then plug it back in

Often in our own health and fitness pursuits, we forget that practicing “the basics” are what got us this far. Our air squat drills earned us an overhead squat PR, our dead hang pull-up strength bought us our muscle-up, and eating a clean diet full of foods that make us healthy gave us the energy, body composition and performance gains we’ve been so happy with. [...]

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Funemployment! A Whole9 update.

Thanks for your patience – we realize posts have been strung out a bit over the last few weeks. Here’s a quick update on where we are and what we’re doing. [...]

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