Feb 21st, 2010
The Whole Community
Welcome to the Whole Community, a comprehensive health and fitness events calendar. The Whole Community is designed to provide one convenient location for our readers to find upcoming health and fitness-related events across the world - and it's totally and completely FREE. Our only goal is to bring like-minded, resourceful, knowledgeable people together in a manner that benefits the community as a whole. [...]
Nov 11th, 2009
Cortisol Management for CrossFitters
The adrenal glands produce many of the body's hormones, including epinephrine (adrenaline) and cortisol. The function is to help us under stress - the release of certain hormones puts us into "fight or flight" mode, to help us deal with crisis situations. Trouble is, when you are under constant stress, the glands are working overtime, pumping out these hormones. The excess cortisol wreaks havoc on your metabolism, and seriously circumvents the processing of fat, protein and carbohydrates and fat loss efforts. You can help to manage cortisol levels with the following supplements and common sense tips. [...]
Oct 19th, 2009
Derailed
If you’re like me, health and fitness is one of the most important efforts in your life. You’ll do anything for the sake of your diet, exercise and sleep - working out while on vacation, bringing your own food to business meetings, cutting out of social occasions early because you’re training the next morning. But no matter how bad you want it, no matter how hard you try… sometimes Life Stuff hurls itself across your tracks. So how do you manage around a Fitness Train derailment, and how do you get moving again when your tracks are finally clear? Here’s my best advice, based on my own recent experience. [...]
Aug 26th, 2009
The serious business of sleep
Sleep is more than just lovely – in fact, from everything I’ve been reading and researching, my working theory is that getting good sleep is the second most important success factor in your health and fitness pursuits. That’s right, NUMBER TWO… just behind cleaning up your diet, and AHEAD of perfecting your training routine. I’ve been preaching sleep to my clients for a few weeks now, and I’m about to step up my game with the rest of you blog readers. [...]
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