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  • Body Weight Leg Workout

    Body Weight Leg Workout

    You don’t need a gym to be healthy and active. You can do this gem of a leg workout in between commercials of your fave tv show. Workout: 1) Standard Squats x 20 2) Froggy Squats x 15-20 (don’t get discouraged on these… they burn!) 3) Alternating Leg Back Lunges x 20 total (10 each…

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  • Finding Your Nutritional Balance-Pt. 1

    Finding Your Nutritional Balance-Pt. 1

    Part 1 of our Fundamental of Nutrition video with my trainer, Dominick Castillo of Cast Iron Athletics covers the following: 1. Eating plans- • Should we be following certain “diets”? If so, which one because there are so many out there!!!2. Can we burn off a bad meal choice (ie: Whataburger or Taco

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  • Finding Your Nutritional Balance- Pt. 2

    Finding Your Nutritional Balance- Pt. 2

    Part 2 of our Fundamental of Nutrition video with my trainer, Dominick Castillo of Cast Iron Athletics covers the following: 1. Carbs- • Do good carbs exist? • • 2.Soda- • How bad is it for you? Does it really effect you in your daily activities? • • 3.Carbs or protein? What feeds muscle? –…

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  • Finding Your Nutritional Balance- Pt. 3

    Finding Your Nutritional Balance- Pt. 3

    Part 3 of our Fundamental of Nutrition video with my trainer, Dominick Castillo of Cast Iron Athletics covers the following: 1. Meal Prepping- • Can busy people meal prep successfully? • Learning to bake. • • 2.Food tips- • Fresh, Frozen, Canned. • Beware of soups. • • 3.Water intake- • How much sho

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  • Travel Light, Eat Light: Eating Healthy on the Road

    Travel Light, Eat Light: Eating Healthy on the Road

    Hey! Listen up….eating healthy on the road is NOT as hard as you are making it! While logging road and airline miles (which for me is a lot), it is so easy to stop along the way and grab what seems to be the easiest thing possible to satisfy hunger on the go. However, what…

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  • MMA: An Appreciation of a Sport Imitating Life
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    MMA: An Appreciation of a Sport Imitating Life

    Blood, sweat and tears (none applied in a good way!). That’s about all I ever thought about the world of MMA up until this last April. I have always been a self-proclaimed Tomboy but the thoug ht of watching people get punched in the face and swollen shut eyes have never appealed to me….until I…

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