Fitness Tips

Tip of the Day- Veggies

Veggies!! Your Mom Was Right With so many different opinions on nutrition, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. One of the most basic steps anyone can start with, is getting in more non-starchy vegetables everyday. They’re full of essential nutrients and fiber but also low in calories. For a tasty way to work […]

Three Phrases That Destroy Goals

Goals. What a high when we reach them and what a low when they feel so far away. Recently I’ve gone through some disappointing moments with not just getting closer to my goals, but life in general. First let me say, none of these were life-shattering and they were all very first world problems, but […]

Yellow/Orange Foods For A PR

Yellow/Orange foods are high in beta-cryptoxanthin and beta-carotene, which is a particularly good antioxidant.  Results from a study on the effect of beta-carotene on race performance published in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise indicated that there was a statistically significant improvement in 5 kilometer race performance. The average race times during the […]

Hydration

What You Need To Know About Hydration The standard rule of thumb is to drink enough water to equal half your body weight in ounces (so if you weigh 150 lbs. that would be 75 ounces of water a day).  But it’s important to listen to your body and adjust that number up or down […]

Top 5 Foods for Runners to Avoid

1.  Refined Grains: Unlike whole grains that contain at least part of their bran and germ layers, processed and refined grains, which are found in our donuts, bagels, bread, pasta, and most desserts, basically everything we as runners love to double down on, have both the bran and germ removed during processing; therefore all of the […]