My last few blogs have revolved around nutrition: How To Lose 25-50 lbs the Simple and Free Way Taking Nutrition A Step Further: Nutrient Timing In the How To Lose 20-50 lbs blog, I talked about the power of tracking your nutrition. Today I want to talk about my personal experience and growth since writing …
Nutrition isn’t only about eating at a deficit of calories for weight loss. Nutrition can be about eating at a surplus of calories for muscle and weight gain as well as eating at maintenance calories for homeostasis and to sustain your current body composition. It’s also about internal health, sport performance and recovery. In my …
With all of the diet and nutrition information that hits your social media feed it’s hard to decipher what to do, where to turn, or who to trust. Everyone has an opinion on special diets and ways to lose weight. But the good thing my friends is that the answer to nutrition isn’t complicated. The …
“Lifting weights will make me bulky and I don’t want to get bulky.” This is the most popular answer that we hear from people these days when talking about transitioning to functional fitness training. Many people believe that weight lifting automatically leads to the physique of a Bodybuilder or a competitive CrossFit athlete; you know, …
Training Accommodation is when you adapt to a training load or stimulus and you stop seeing growth. Therefore, if you don’t change your training, you stop getting better. You actually go backwards. This is what happens for a lot of gyms and people. You can’t just do the same type of work all the time. …
I first met Natalie in late December of 2019 during her free Athlete Consultation that we offer to all interested clients. Natalie is a college student and a restaurant employee and she was living the stereotypical college student/restaurant employee lifestyle: late nights from working the restaurant, a college nutrition plan consisting of skipped meals and …
It’s more clear now than ever before that America has a health problem. But it’s not the health problem clogging the airwaves right now. Nope, I’m not talking about Coronavirus. I’m talking about the “comorbidities” that have been inextricably linked to the majority of covid-19 patients. The pre-conditions that existed long before the term “social …
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Ray scheduled a No Sweat Intro with us back in September of 2019. He had been doing his thing at the big chain gym but was looking to switch things up and add some variety, some intensity, and some functionality to his workouts. The boring routine just wasn’t cutting it anymore. I think a lot …
Allison first came to Level Up Fitness in January of 2019 when her old gym closed down and she needed a new gym to call home. Allison was a little reluctant to join a “CrossFit” gym because of a previous poor experience from a few years prior. But once she realized how Level Up was …
I first met Jerry nearly 5 years ago when him and his wife, Suzanne, were looking for a new gym. They immediately called us home. And ever since then, it’s truly felt like a family. Almost 1000 classes later (966 to be exact) I’ve developed a love and respect for this guy. What I first …