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Weekend survival strategy

I’ve posted this a couple of times during our annual Clean Up and Your Best Body challenges. With this being the first weekend of the YBBC 2013, it’s time to post it again. Even if you’re not doing our challenge, you may find the tips below helpful in surviving your weekend. So, it’s your first…

Top 5 Reasons to DO the Best Body Challenge

Still haven’t signed up for the 2013 Best Body Challenge? Planning on skipping it this time around? Feeling a little meh? Dragging your feet? What’s stopping you? It can’t be the price, especially you, current members. $37 is a steal and you know it. $97 for newbies? That’s less than your daily latte habit. Plus…

Seeing the Light

Come with me if you dare, on a journey to the TRUTH. (Cue the Sanskrit chants…But seriously, humor me.) So, where is the light? It’s in your mirror. And in your brain. And in your gut. It’s that jolt of emotion that makes you turn away from your reflection and run to the fridge. The…

Navigating the Apps 2.0

The last time I blogged about apps I was talking appetizers. This time around, I’m talking the inedible sorts—those tiny illustrated squares that decorate the screens of your iPhones and iPads. If you’re a savvy P. Fit-er—and I know you are—then you’re smart enough to know that sometimes you need a little help keeping track…

Post-workout nutrition

What to Eat After You Work Out As in the previous post, the better educated you are about health and fitness, the more fat you’ll burn, and the more lean muscle mass you can build. You can get stronger and slimmer—faster. Eating after you work out accomplishes two things. 1. It restores your body’s glycogen…

What to Eat Before You Work Out

Proper Nutrition—Before you Exercise You know those coupons you keep getting in the mail for Bed Bath & Beyond? If you decide to head there for, say, a new duvet cover or a Le Creuset Dutch oven, or maybe even a jumbo bottle of conditioner, you’d probably kick yourself if you forgot to bring along…

Clean Up FAQ

Our 3rd Winter Nutrition Clean Up starts tomorrow, but it’s not too late to sign up. You can even delay your start until next Monday, the 14th. But what the heck are you getting yourself into when you sign up for the Clean Up?! Well, you’ve got questions? We’ve got answers: Q: What exactly is…

What I Push For

I don’t have patriotic schwag or swagger. I don’t put a flag out on Memorial Day or Labor Day or July 4th for that matter. I don’t own any clothes emblazoned with the American flag, and I’ve never chanted “U S A ! U S A!” So, why on earth am I doing Pushups For…

Inflammation

Caitlin Pettit, Performance Fitness boot camp instructor and nutritionist, has written an informative article on the causes and dangers of systemic inflammation. Check it out: So we’re on this 8-week journey of “eating clean” known as the Clean Up. The food is clean, the preparation is clean, and in turn, our bodies will be clean.…

Girl Scouts – Shepherds of the Devil?

Every year it’s the same thing. You’re minding your own business, taking a routine trip to the grocery store and there they are – The Shepherds of the Devil. OK. OK – Girl Scouts, pedaling their crack-filled thin mints (It’s true! You’ll see at the bottom of this post). These she-devils seem innocent enough to…