January 2020

Find Your Fitness Community   Life throws curves at you each day ⚾Your alarm clock ⏰ doesn’t go off on time, your car 🚙 sputters its last breath at the most inconvenient spot possible, your boss 😈 changes the deadline for your assignment to a week earlier, and the kids 👪 refuse to eat the new “healthy alternative” […]

How to Become Sugar Savvy If you’re having trouble meeting your nutrition, weight loss, or fitness goals — or just generally feeling tired and run down — you could be eating too much sugar. When we talk about sugar, most people think ice cream 🍦, cookies 🍪, or soda, but sugar lurks everywhere in processed, packaged

The First Five Minutes Of Your Day How about this, I’m going to tell you that the first five minutes of your day 🌅 will determine whether it will be successful or not. You might be thinking, This is BS 💩; I’m not a morning 🌄 person, my mornings are always horrible, and I get to throw

How to Outrun a Hippo Outrun 🏃 a hippo? Seriously? When you think hippo 🦛, you probably think the huge, gray mammal that seems to slowly put one gigantic foot in front of the other, meandering over to its next meal. Oh no, no, no, my friend… Hippos can move, and they can move really fast

Body Positivity ….. or Neutrality?  The body positivity movement originated in the 1960s. The concept — that you should feel good 😎 about yourself and love 💕 your body no matter your size — has become an Instagram-friendly buzzword in recent years. Body positivity is a wonderful thing, but many people run into trouble when they focus so

Pre-Workout Nutrition  What to eat before you exercise: Fueling correctly before your workout will help you perform better and recover quickly. Ideally, you want to have energy 🚀during the workout without feeling too full. Here’s how to achieve that ideal balance, whether you workout 🏋 first thing in the morning, mid-day, or in the evening 🌙. If you have time:

Low Back Pain? It’s Probably Your Glutes. 👌These warm-up exercises will help!👍   They are the strongest muscles in our body, but one of the most overlooked. The glutes 🍑 consist of three major muscle groups: the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and the gluteus minimus. We need them for standing up from a sitting position,

How to Have a Healthy Gut You have more bacteria 🔎 in your body than you have cells, and scientists are now learning that the bacteria in your gut are responsible not just for helping digest food, but for many aspects of your health. Ideally, you want a healthy population of “good” bacteria in your gut, because

10 Ways To Motivate Yourself To Workout  Even if you love 🧡 P6 CrossFit 🧡, sometimes it happens: you just don’t feel motivated to work out.   When you’re feeling unmotivated, the first thing to do is make sure you aren’t sick or overtrained. If you can’t remember the last time you took a rest