Thirty days ago I received my shipment of Colossal bovine colostrum. It arrived neatly packaged and protected from damage in reflective padded packaging. The whole thing screamed of advanced ... Continue Reading
Sandbags to Help You Get It Together
Sometimes you just need to change it up with a different training stimulus to get yourself out of a rut. Sandbags did this for me. I’m big into endurance training, and when I hit the gym each week, I ... Continue Reading
Pull It Tight, Lift It Right
The lifting belt is one of the most misused pieces of equipment in the gym. In fact, some manufacturers don’t understand how a belt is supposed to work due to the fact that they construct belts that are ... Continue Reading
Energy Bars to Upgrade Your Lifestyle
There you are, in front of a crowd of thousands cheering your name. You step up to the bar, get a firm grip—your body in perfect position. You are about to complete the lift of your life. Suddenly the ... Continue Reading
The Guide to Overcoming Poor Posture
What is posture, exactly? And what does it mean to have good posture? Can it help you eliminate pain? Or move differently? What is posture, exactly? And what does it mean to have good posture? ... Continue Reading
How Do You Take Your Vitamins?
NutraGlow is a supplemental company that consists of two products: Super B and Super Lean. Super B is designed to promote overall balance in the body while boosting energy. Super Lean is designed to assist ... Continue Reading
Roll Yourself to Better Mobility
The Plexus Wheel is one of those inventions you sort of wish you had thought of yourself. It’s fairly simple—it appears to be made out of some sort of PVC and coated with a soft rubber that actually makes ... Continue Reading
Groceries: The Final Frontier in Fitness
Food is fuel and you have a lot of options where you can get it from. Too many options, maybe, and a lot of them should be disqualified on the grounds of their suitability for a healthy lifestyle. You ... Continue Reading
Massage Your Way to Better Mobility and Recovery
The TimTam adjustable and rechargable high power massager looks more like something you would find at a hardware store rather than at a spa. It has a rapid speed pulse that has made some of the toughest ... Continue Reading
Social Media Fitness App: Not Your New Bvddy
Touted as “helping to get more out of the activities we love” I did not find this to be the case with the Bvddy app. The app is selling itself as the world’s largest sports matching platform and enables ... Continue Reading
Get Wild: Clean Foods to Fuel Your Body and Mind
Sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference—excellent coffee, good tea, quality salt, and coconut oil. For many of us who keep our nutrition clean, quality products really keep us ... Continue Reading
Convenient Nutrition: Protein Pods
It’s a routine practiced every day in gyms and boxes across the land—exercisers finish a session and hustle to get in their post-workout recovery meal. For decades it’s been preached that the optimal ... Continue Reading
Clean Protein: Looking for Mr. Good Shake
There are so many protein powders on the market. As a consumer, it’s really difficult to sort out the good ones from the junk filled options. Some of the choices are high in sugar, or they don’t contain ... Continue Reading
Feed Right, Live Right With Clean Supplements
There are three things I spend my days focusing on: my family, LSU strength and conditioning, and nutrition/supplementation. Each of these impacts the other but none more so than adequate and proper ... Continue Reading
Flexible Pants for Your Yoga Practice
Flexi Lexi is a yoga clothing company based out of Thailand. They produce yoga tights that are functional and fun, with patterns that are a little bit different. In order for yoga tights to be functional, ... Continue Reading
The Coby Earbud Roundup: Shut Out the World
When it comes to anything music related, I will admit that I am the snobbiest of snobs. Yes, I am a fitness professional, however music is my love and obsession. I love live music, I love working out to ... Continue Reading
Testing Compression Legwear for Athletes
I never knew compression socks could make a difference until I began running half marathons. I’d plod away in my regular socks, not thinking twice about recovery or lower leg care. That was until I got an ... Continue Reading
A New Way to Keep Your Gym Clothes Fresh
For those of us who spend entire days at the gym, whether we are training others or getting our own training in, preventing our clothing from creating biohazard zones is not only a courtesy, it’s a basic ... Continue Reading
One Pot to Bind Them, One Pot to Rule Them All
Meal prep can be an arduous process—menu planning, shopping, organizing, chopping, cooking, sorting into containers. I know that I am always looking for ways to make meal prep go a little faster. I had ... Continue Reading
1 Voice Wireless Fitness Headphones Review
Finding good earphones can be tricky. Unless you go with the standard pair that come with various cell phone purchases, you may not even shop for earphones very often, if ever. We’ve all gotten used to ... Continue Reading
1 Voice Wireless Fitness Headphones Review – Ditch the Wires
Finding good earphones can be tricky. Unless you go with the standard pair that come with various cell phone purchases, you may not even shop for earphones very often, if ever. We’ve all gotten used to ... Continue Reading
Celebrity Trainers and Home Workouts: Do They Work?
FitFusion is a workout database accessed online and presented by Jillian Michaels. The site provides a range of videos from famous trainers. There are hundreds of videos available with search options to ... Continue Reading
Veestro Review – Not Your Mother’s TV Dinners
This is a world of delivery meals and fast food options, and it’s easy to choose convenience over healthy options. A quick fast-food drive through here and a pizza delivery there can really add to the ... Continue Reading
Increase Mobility with a Dual Head Mobility Ball
I always have tightness in my shoulder blades, always. Sometimes it’s worse than at other times, but it’s never good. This past weekend I was looking for some real, immediate relief from my usual tightness ... Continue Reading