Beyond 40: 10 Reasons To Skip Fasting And Eat Breakfast
Unlocking peak wellness in midlife can be challenging.
Finding a simple approach to nutrition is confusing. What should you eat to lose weight, boost your energy levels and increase your health and longevity?
Where do you start?
Breakfast is often where I start with many of my health coaching clients looking to upgrade their nutrition.
The start of the day is often when you're most complaint, so it's the perfect place to start.
5 Root Causes Of Midlife Gut Issues That Your Doctor Won't Know
Your gut health is linked to your overall health. This makes sense because every cell in your body needs vital nutrients to survive and thrive. Your gut’s ability to digest and absorb this critical nutrient is essential to your health and well-being.
Constipation, diarrhoea, bloating, gas, abdominal pain, fatigue, skin irritations, vomiting, and sugar cravings are all signs that your gut isn't functioning as it should.
Unlock Peak Wellness in Midlife with 5 Key Reasons to Boost Your Protein Intake
It's scary how many people in their midlife think they should eat less protein. But the truth is we should be eating more.
When working with health coaching clients, one of the first questions I often get is, “Where should I start with my diet so I can feel better, have more energy and keep up with my kids?"
The answer to that question is protein.
As we age, protein becomes even more valuable because it plays a crucial role in our health and longevity.
The Hidden Story Behind Blood Test Results
A lot of people in their midlife get regular “health checks” and are often told that their blood work is “normal” and they’ve nothing to worry about.
However, people who feel “unwell” will appear “normal” when their results are compared to the conventional medicine blood reference ranges.
There is a big problem with normal….
Mastering Midlife Nutrition: Busting High-Protein Myths for Health and Vitality
As we age, we start to pay more attention to our health. Health, happiness and longevity seem to climb our list of values, especially when we have a family to care for.
This new outlook on our values makes us question what type of diet we should eat.
This leads to the question of how much protein I should eat.
Protein recommendations can vary based on individual factors such as age, sex, weight, activity level, health and fitness goals, and overall health.
Sometimes, we make the mistake of thinking we need to eat less as we age.
Gymnastics strength training and wrist pain
A lot of gymnastics skill seekers experience wrist pain as they train to build strength, increase flexibility and unlock new gymnastics skills.
Gymnastics training requires a lot of wrist strength and flexibility.
Think about the wrist extension in push-ups, handstands and planche training.
Think about the wrist flexion in the false grip.
Balancing on your hands also requires a lot of wrist strength.
Mastering Strict Dips: Unleash Your Strength in 3 Powerful Steps!
Mastering strict dips can be challenging for a lot of adult gymnastic skill seekers. Strict dip requires significant upper body strength, particularly in the triceps, chest, and shoulders. They also require flexibility in the chest and triceps—adults with limited shoulder flexibility struggle to perform dips without pain.
Mastering the correct form for strict dips involves understanding the body
positioning, proper muscle engagement, and coordinated movement.
Tight calves and shit squats?
The squat is a popular strength exercise, second only in popularity to the deadlift. However, many adults have trouble performing full range of motion "ass-to-grass" squats because they have tight calves, which limit ankle dorsiflexion.
Not only does this affect our squats, but it also affects lunges, step-ups, pistol squats, and even our forward fold (pike and pancake) flexibility.
Are tight and weak shoulders impacting your handstands - Part 2
In part 1 of this post I talked about how a lack of shoulder flexion affects our handstand alignment. Often, this presents itself as a banana handstand.
As a quick recap, tight pecs, biceps, lats and teres major are the main muscles that impact shoulder flexion range of motion.
Foam rolling and stretching can help to lengthen these muscles and improve our overhead flexibility.
However, we can also add strength training to speed up the process while increasing shoulder strength and stability.
If the above muscles are short and tight, the opposing muscles may be weak.
Are tight and weak shoulders impacting your handstands - Part 1
A common problem adults experience when learning to handstand is a lack of shoulder flexion. They lack the strength and/or flexibility to open the shoulder angle to 180 degrees of shoulder flexion.
This affects the alignment of the handstand.
The workaround is to arch the spine.
This allows us to align our wrists, elbows and shoulders and balance our hands, resulting in a banana handstand.
A banana handstand isn't wrong, but it will limit your handstand progress.