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Paleo Nutrition Seminars, CrossFit Nutrition, and the Original Whole30 Program

Learn about the 9 factors of optimal health from Dallas & Melissa Hartwig, creators of the popular Whole30 program.

8 Ways to Add Movement to Daily Life

Movement Daily

Whole9 guest post by Coach Rut, who has over a quarter century of fitness coaching experience and holds academic degrees in biology and physical education, and Master’s degrees in exercise physiology and sports biomechanics. If you read the reports and the statistics, most people aren’t really getting more fit or any healthier. On my 5:00 a.m. commute to work, I pass four big chain pharmacies, all with a waiting line at the druggist counter. In spite of even more evidence pointing to … [Read more...]

Pay Now or Pay Later: A Theoretical Approach to the Cost of Medical Care

coach rut pay now pay later

Whole9 guest post by Coach Rut, who has over a quarter century of fitness coaching experience and holds academic degrees in biology and physical education, and Master’s degrees in exercise physiology and sports biomechanics. I was recently in a conversation with other fitness professionals discussing the rising cost of health care and the reluctancy of individuals to pay for high quality health and fitness direction. Today’s lesson is a simple one. We are going to compare the cost of … [Read more...]

Couch Potato To Fitness: The Important Steps

Steps to Fitness

Whole9 guest post by Coach Rut, who has over a quarter century of fitness coaching experience and holds academic degrees in biology and physical education, and Master’s degrees in exercise physiology and sports biomechanics. I recently received the following comment from a blog post. [I'm] just feeling overwhelmed on where to begin after a decade of nothingness. 100# from my target weight and need simple direction.. uuggghhh..too many choices. I believe it is my thinking too much. The … [Read more...]

The 1-2-3 Heart Rate Monitoring Training Approach

heart rate monitor

Whole9 guest post by Coach Rut, who has over a quarter century of fitness coaching experience and holds academic degrees in biology and physical education, and Master’s degrees in exercise physiology and sports biomechanics. Overall, I find heart rate monitors useful but annoying. Most people who buy them use them only as a speedometer, which completely defeats the purpose. Another annoyance stems from the total anal controlling behaviors that develop when an athlete starts training with a … [Read more...]

3 Things You Should Know & Do But Probably Don’t

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Whole9 guest post by Coach Rut, who participates in the sport of weightlifting and is the current Kansas State Champion and the 2006, 2013 and 2014 National Master Champion at 94kg. During the week between Christmas and the New Year a very talented athlete started coming into the gym to workout twice per day.  This represented a doubling of her current training baseline and I saw the train wreck coming.  Sure enough the next week she succumbed to the influenza that had engulfed our … [Read more...]

The Whole9 Five Movements Series: Part 1

Note: This is a repost from the Whole9 archives. This three-part series has been one of our most popular blog post series to date. Enjoy! If you could only perform five exercise movements for the rest of your life, which five would you do? This was the question we recently posed to twelve of the most widely respected fitness experts and strength and conditioning coaches - assuming their clients’ goals were general health, fitness and longevity (and not a specialized sport). The answers we got … [Read more...]

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