A Nutrition Coach is a professional who serves simultaneously as a nutritionist, guide, mentor, and motivator for their clients.

Just how important is that post workout snack?  Is it necessary to eat it right after my workout, even before I shower?

Imagine that you are pretty much stuck at home all day, with little or minimal occupational work to do (right now, this is most of our country).

Feel like your genes are working against you?  Is the reason you can’t get yourself to look/feel/play the way you believe you should simply because you do not have the “right” genes?

More aptly put, these are my top 5 reasons, and as the title implies, there certainly are more than five, I (and others)  just see these the most.

Making a change from an intermittently active lifestyle to a running lifestyle is not as easy as it seems.  

In my last post “That Sugar Film – Take 1” I clarified some points from the film regarding the effect of excess sugar on metabolism

I recently watched “That Sugar Film” and wanted to share some thoughts.

Why am I bringing up golf now, in mid October, when for many, the golf season is just about done?

Recently I read a post addressing how to work the rotator cuff muscles. 

Maximal oxygen uptake, often abbreviated as VO2max (there is supposed to be a dot over the V, signifying volume-rate), the O2 is the chemical symbol for oxygen, so we have the maximal amount of oxygen the body can use during physical exertion. 

We once defined the term “agility” as the ability to change direction quickly.

Baseball requires athletes to go from a “ready” position, whether in the batter’s box, the pitcher’s mound, infield, or outfield, to full on explosive movement. 

There are generally 7 major contributors to non-contact injuries acquired performing sporting like activities.

Static stretching is when an individual muscle is stretched to its end point and held for 15-60 seconds.

My answer: Definitely!  A general fitness battery usually consists of five physical assessments. 

Just how important is that post workout snack? Is it necessary to eat it right after my workout, even before I shower?

Earlier, I spoke about stress management as an important concept to integrate to avoid overtraining.

An athletic performance test battery is a series of valid and reliable physical tests that assess important physiological components which are necessary to meet the demands of the sport.

Just read a brief review in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research about recovery from exercise training.