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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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Collaboration, cooperation and courtesy

We hope at this point, our Whole9 readers know how much we enjoy sharing good stuff with the community. (We like it so much, in fact, that we’ve recently made it our full-time jobs!) We’ve offered up everything from custom workouts to nutrition advice to injury rehabilitation tips, freely distributing all of this information to anyone and everyone interested in learning, sharing and participating in our little community. [...]

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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. [...]

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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. [...]

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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: [...]

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Happy Birthday, Captain Tom

We call my Dad “Captain Tom” as a nod to the fact that he is an accredited Coast Guard Captain, and a retired fishing bum in the Florida Keys. Saturday is my Dad’s birthday, and I wanted to use the occasion to share his story with our readers. (Translation: Today, I get to brag about my Dad.) [...]

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