Chances are that if we work together on nutrition, whether your focus is on quality macronutrients or food quality alone, you have heard me talk about the importance of eating enough protein. In fact, although I think it is important to hit all of your macronutrient and micronutrient goals, protein is the most important of all. There are many reasons why you should eat enough protein, too many to fit into one blog. That being said, if I condense all of the reasons down, I end up with three main categories of why I feel so strongly about the subject. Conveniently, these reasons happen to perfectly coincide with the three goals I discuss with my clients before and while working together.

Endless books could be written on the science and importance of nose breathing. In fact, they have been. Around 1500 BCE, the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest medical texts ever discovered, offered a description of how nostrils, not the mouth, were supposed to feed air to the heart and lungs. From there, countless texts have outlined this idea and the science behind it. While I am no expert on the subject, I have become fascinated with a book that has helped bring this subject to my attention, and which goes into great details on the subject of nose-breathing and breath in general. I highly recommend reading or listening to this book, which is appropriately called Breath, by James Nestor.

The goal of Lean Mean Green Health is to work with athletes in order to help them attain their goals as quickly and easily as possible. Not only do my clients’ goals vary broadly, but so do their physical pursuits and passions. I wouldn’t have this any other way - I love working with athletes of all backgrounds, sizes, shapes, and endeavors - but it is also true that a large percentage of my clients come from the CrossFit community.

This is our third and final blog on combating mental burnout. This third article is more personal and “you-centered” than the other two, and because of this it is perhaps the most important of all.

We are now into our second blog addressing how to combat mental burnout, and how to avoid getting mental burnout in the first place. Last time I discussed the importance of getting a community. This time I will address the importance of having a time-sensitive goal related to your training.

When I tell people to go gluten-free, the response I often get is the very reasonable question, “why?” This blog is going to cover some of the main reasons why I strongly encourage all of my clients to give up the gluten.

It’s that time of year again. It’s cold, and it has been for months. You can’t remember the last time you saw blue sky instead of grey clouds. Daylight seems to last for about twelve minutes, and you feel like you might develop a case of adult rickets if you don’t get some sun on your skin soon.

This is the first in a series of 3 blogs which will address the most efficient and effective ways to get yourself out of the mental-burnout slump, and to ensure that you don’t get there in the first place.