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Ask Whole9 Canada: The Importance Of Defining Health vs. Performance Goals

health vs performance goals

Welcome to Ask Whole9 Canada, where Summer Innanen and Sarah Ramsden answer all of your health and nutrition questions. In this week’s episode, Summer and Sarah discuss the importance of defining health versus performance goals. Having clearly defined goals is important to achieving the success you desire. When there are multiple goals, you risk having to sacrifice one area to achieve the greatest potential in the other. We can bucket the most common goals into three categories: health, … [Read more...]

It’s Just Exercise (Part 2)

by Melissa Hartwig, who likes to argue both sides sometimes First, if you haven't read Part 1 in this series, please do so now - you'll need a little background to follow along with the discussion.  Last week, we talked about the idea that for most of us, our time in the gym is just exercise.  It's not our profession, it doesn't make us money, and if we happened to get pinned under a squat clean gone bad, Sports Illustrated isn't going to embarrass us with an ugly front page photo.  But while … [Read more...]

It’s Just Exercise (Part I)

Written by Melissa in 2011, after a very bad day in the gym I was working a strength program this fall and winter, hitting some Olympic lifts and up to two additional strength movements a day, limiting met-cons to sprint-style bursts.  Since coming off the road in late November and working hard in the gym, I'd put on at least five pounds of muscle, which was doing great things for my squat and bench and overall general happiness.  It was not, however, doing good things for my pull-ups.  I'd … [Read more...]

The Question

A special guest post by Ben Abruzzo, owner of CrossFit Albuquerque and a Whole9 Nutrition Partner "We do not rise to the level of our expectations.  We fall to the level of our training."  CrossFit Albuquerque The Question comes in many forms.  It is always different, yet universally the same.  The question is also often not very important, because the person asking the question need not pose the question at all. The question could be: “Why am I not getting stronger?” “Why am I not … [Read more...]

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