Member Newsletter
Quarter 3 2022
Nutrition + Mentality
“Excellence is built on years of mundane, repetitive, focused effort, with a willingness to learn from failure, and a love for the process.”
Find your rhythm. Binge dieting, magic pills/potions, fads, etc is not finding your rhythm. These are quick fixes but what happens when you want to live life: do the results disappear just as fast as you received them?
Find your rhythm. Make small daily improvements. 1% better each day is truly that. Have one nutritional focus for the day/week and make it happen.
Find your rhythm. Eat veggies first. Fill up on the good healthy food and that will leave less room for the bad food.
Find your rhythm. Take 5 minutes at the end of the day or the end of the week to identify your WINS. It is easy to only keep our eye on that big goal, but it's those small steps of improvement that you are making along that not-so-straight line from Point A to B, that truly matter!
Find your rhythm. Remove temptations. Make it hard on yourself to have that King size Reese’s at night. Do not have it readily available. The headache of having to make a special trip to the store just for that will keep you from eating badly.
Find your rhythm. Stacking all of these things on top of either will help get you back on the wagon sooner and closer to Point B.
Yes, it’s boring, it’s simple, but it’s effective and sustainable!
Fitness
How can I burn calories in a workout?
How hard can I push in a workout?
Can I do more?
These are all questions we probably ask ourselves when training. You are pushing yourself as hard as you can but you could be missing an important piece.
We all know real results come from proper nutrition, but that's not what we are talking about here. Are you completing any low-impact, low-intensity, or endurance conditioning sessions? These are not fancy, creative exercises. These are boring. These are simple. These are necessary.
They are some major benefits you are missing.
Gives your body's central nervous system a chance to recover. Your CNS is what makes you go in the workouts that require you to go fast and push hard!
You are still improving your long-term endurance while being easy on the body.
Keep your heart rate in the FAT BURNING zone as opposed to the Calorie Burning zone for a longer period of time.
Give this a try: Sled walk with medium weight for 20-30 minutes.
Nutrition + Mindset Bonus
You’ve added in some low intensity steady state cardio, you are beginning to stack to stack some habits, now begin to thing about that one area that can yield so much benefit, but is often lost: post-workout nutrition.
Read on “5 Nutrients that you should add to your post-workout routine”.
If you are interested in learning more about how you can utilized Thorne nutrition, let one of our coaches know.