Unless you have an allergy to fish, incorporating fish oil (in the form of capsules) is something that I highly recommend.  Fish oil continues to rack up an impressive list of health benefits which include: Reduction of inflamation which can help your joints May be an anti-aging pill delaying the effects of age at a [...]

I’m going to fess up right now.  Today I made beef stew for dinner and I put some potatoes in it!  I know, I k now, I can hear the gasps already.  But I did have a method to my madness so let me explain. First, it’s important to note that I’ve lost a fair [...]

I get email regularly from clients looking to lose fat and often I’m asked which diet they should follow, a low carbohydrate diet or a low fat diet. The best diet watches both.  But you can move either way on spectrum where as you add more carb, you have to take out more fat.  And, [...]

I am regularly approached by people who are not losing weight on the P90X  or Insanity programs.  Most of them are women.  And that’s not surprising because women have a harder time getting a body that’s overweight and prone to put on fat to suddenly turn around and become a fat burner. But just because [...]

Let’s face it, if you are doing P90X, Insanity or Turbo Fire the odds are that you want to burn fat – lots of it.  Sure adding some lean mass is a goal but if your gut is too big it’s because you are too fat.  So if fat loss is the goal, should you [...]

I get this question regularly. But before I can answer this question, we need to define what ‘supplements’ are. This is particularly important when it comes to protein powder. I don’t consider this a supplement because it’s really a food. A good shake replaces some other food you would have eaten otherwise. Would you consider [...]

You’ve seen the informercials and perhaps you are wondering if P90X really works. In particular, does Ab Ripper X work the way they say it does? I took the plunge to purchase P90X a year ago. At the time I was not sure it was as good as the informercial says nor was I sure [...]

Too often when I read through recommended diets for building lean bodies I see the same ol’ list of plain oatmeal (no milk), egg white omletes (you gotta be kidding me) and broiled chicken breast with steamed veggies with no salt.  No wonder so many people struggle with the diet part of the program! Now [...]

The weather is warming here in the Great Plains (finally – it seemed more than ever this year as though winter would never end) and of course, my thoughts turn towards being swimsuit ready.  I’ve lost a lot of weight and really toned up but I am more committed than ever to developing the best [...]

Chris and I finished our 4th week of our High Intensity (Interval – usually) Training (HIT – or HIIT with intervals). How has it gone? Pretty well I think. Most interestingly we are both achieving our goals which are aimed in different directions. Chris has put on a couple pounds of muscle which has been [...]