Cheesy Tuscan Dip
1 small tub low fat cottage cheese
2 tablespoons Tuscan Dressing Flax Oil Waltanna Farms
Mix ingredients together in serving bowl. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Creamy Cucumber Dill Dip
½ cup non-fat yogurt
¼ tsp. dried dill
4 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
½ cup peeled cucumber coarsely grated
Ground black pepper to taste.
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So how does dehydration affect our Fitness (& fat loss)?
If you want to perform (train) at a high level you need to drink. Water, that is. For each percentage of body weight lost due to dehydration, your performance slips by about 2%.
A recent study by researchers from Chicago State University revealed that dehydration (3% of body weight) increased the perception of fatigue by a whopping ..
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A big shout out to Nexus F.I.R.E crew member Nicole F.
Nicole was deep into her 2nd round of F.I.R.E for 2014 when she took a 2 week (well deserved) break with her family to Vietnam. Unlike the majority of people who appear to think that a holiday means a holiday from EVERYTHING and that holiday calories don't count: excess alcohol, excess food (your body still does all it's funky metab ..
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"What's the best body weight to be?" was a question a client asked recently.
Best body weight? The best on-the-spot example I give my clients about body weight and how that it is not relevant to body size are these 2 kettle bells.
Clearly these two kettlebells are different in size but when you turn them around you find out what their weight is.
They are both 8kg! So ..
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How good was the 2014 AFL Grand Final!!!!! Simply Sensational....yes I am a Hawks supporter and I will admit I was not faithful in my belief that the players and the coaching staff would retain the cup in 2014. Due to the shock of the result (63 points is a "shocking" margin in an AFL Grand Final) I remain glued to the TV and soaked up the player speeches/interviews late into the evening. ..
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In my previous blog I mentioned that I hate diets.....Here's why. They set us up for failure. Ok, we might achieve our goal weight (on the scales) and feel pretty damn good about ourselves but what happens when we go back to eating the same way. The numbers on the scales creep back up past what we were BEFORE we went on the diet. ARGH!
Why do we even care what the scales say? Should ..
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Other MP level 4 supertrainers are blogging away as if their lives depended on it, so I thought I'd better suss this blogging thing out. "A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary. It is a place to express yourself to the world. A place to share your thoughts and your passions."
You mean someone out there in Cyberland might be interested in reading about what I ..
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Many of the I.C.E team and F.I.R.E crew travel interstate for work or have lives that mean they can't make it into the NexusPT studio for training. To avoid missing out on ICE workouts, they keep an eye on the NexusPT Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NexusPersonalTraining?ref=hl)page for I.C.E sessions they can do in hotels (http://metabolicprecision.com/articles-1/workout-of-the-week-hotel ..
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