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

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...]

Are You Recovering or Just Resting?

Today, I’d like to talk about recovery. No, not economic recovery—though that would be lovely—but physiological recovery from the stressors placed upon us by our modern physical world. Rest vs. Recovery These two words, "rest" and "recovery," have distinctly different meanings when applied to health, fitness or athletic contexts. Recovery can encompass many different behaviors and strategies, but it is fundamentally different than just resting. Rest is simply the absence of effort or … [Read more...]

Introducing The Paleo Athlete

Today, we are thrilled to introduce our healthy-eating, performance-driven readers a brilliant new resource--one that dovetails beautifully with our new Whole Athlete seminar series. And it's brought to you by one half of the Whole Athlete team: Stephanie Gaudreau, of Stupid Easy Paleo. Even better? The other half of the Whole Athlete team, Dallas Hartwig of Whole9, wrote the foreword for this brand new e-book for athletes. Wow, you'd almost think this was coordinated or … [Read more...]

The Whole9 Five Movement Series: Part 3

Note: This is a repost from the Whole9 archives. This is the third installation in a 3-part series. If you haven’t read the first two parts, read them here and here before continuing.Enjoy! We brought together 12 fitness experts from a broad range of backgrounds--with bodies of experience ranging from weightlifting to track and field to mixed martial arts, and over two centuries of collective coaching experience--to ask them all the same question: If you could only perform five exercise … [Read more...]

The Whole9 Five Movement Series: Part 2

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! Last Thursday, we reintroduced you to Part 1 of our 3-part series on the top five foundational movements for health, featuring Dan John, Eric Cressey, Rob MacDonald, Michael Rutherford, James Fitzgerald, and our own Dallas Hartwig. Today, we feature six more strength and conditioning coaches and athletes, and ask them the same question: If you could only … [Read more...]

Are You Recovering, Or Are You Just Resting?

workout recovery

We’ve been working on this post for a while, but Life got in the way. (Alternate story: Dallas is better at starting projects than finishing them.)  Nonetheless, we’d like to talk about recovery. No, not economic recovery—though that would be lovely—but physiological recovery from the stressors placed upon us by our modern physical world. Rest vs. Recovery These two words, "rest" and "recovery," have distinctly different meanings when applied to health, fitness or athletic contexts. Recovery … [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...]

The Whole9 Health Equation

whole9 health equation

Since founding the Whole9 in 2009, we've used “our 9” to address the multi-faceted nature of a healthy lifestyle with our consulting clients.  But after developing a great working relationship with Robb Wolf and attending several extraordinary nutrition seminars (including Robb’s), we decided to concentrate our public health focus on nutrition.  Since then, we’ve written extensively about nutrition’s role in a healthy lifestyle over the past several years, and conducted more than 70 Foundations … [Read more...]

The 400,000 Hour Body

the 4 hour body

We get a lot of questions about products, services and protocols that promise miraculous results - improved body composition, fitness, energy or health - with minimal effort.   This slant is not new – the lure of a shortcut (or “free lunch”, as Gym Jones calls it) has been the carrot dangling from our health-and-fitness stick since we first started paying attention to what we ate and how we moved.  And wouldn’t it be great if it were true?  If you could achieve all of your health and fitness … [Read more...]

It’s just exercise (Part I)

by Melissa, 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 kind of … [Read more...]

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