Summer is a little over a month away, so if you haven’t already, now is a good time to start working on your abs. Before we get into exercises you can do to strengthen abs, it’s important to know diet trumps exercise when trying to get a six pack. While working out and strengthening ab… [Read More]
Healthy and Balanced Diet: Cooking Oils
Trying to maintain a healthy and balanced diet? Are you using oils when cooking and meal prepping? Cooking oils are confusing. Vegetable oils are good, right? You would think so, since they do extract the oil from vegetables, but sadly they are not. Vegetable oils are linked to cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, because they… [Read More]
Sleep and StrongBoard
You’ve been working hard on your StrongBoard consistently, and you’ve also been eating super foods while avoiding unhealthy junk food. Yet, you still feel like you could be seeing more results. What could be in your way? If you’ve been eating right and exercising, then the answer is sleep. Sleep is the bedrock on which… [Read More]
Your Body and Sugar
The holiday months tend to be the worst for our diet, and mostly because of the increased amounts of refined and processed sugar available to us. Cookies, cakes, pies, and other holiday treats tend to overwhelm our homes and work spaces. We tell ourselves it’s a special occasion and suddenly we’re way off track from… [Read More]
What Are Calories?
For those looking to lose a few pounds or maintain their current weight, counting calories can be a great way to stay on track. There are hundreds of applications and websites that are incredibly helpful with tracking calories on a daily and weekly basis. Yet still, what do all these numbers mean? Is it really… [Read More]
