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Cliff on June 4, 2009 |
Here is some great tips for making a protein shake. I like to add spinach to my shakes for added goodness! Visit the site here.
Step 1: Start with ice
Use 1-4 cubes for a thin, chilled shake
Use 5-10 cubes for thicker, pudding-like consistency shake
Step 2: Pick A Fruit
Step 3: Pick A Veggie
Step 4: Pick A [...]
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Cliff on May 21, 2009 |
Here are some great tips from Ben Greenfield for avoiding gas build up. If it hasn’t happened to you (thank your lucky stars!) it may at some point.
Endurance athletes need heavy amounts of carbohydrate based fuel. When this sugary fuel meets up with the bacteria in your stomach, digestion and fermentation produces CO2 – the [...]
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Cliff on May 7, 2009 |
Below is a startling image of how Americans are eating. In a world with so much variety, you’d think people would expand and try new things. Not so. This is a great read which was found in the Journals of Nutrition.
The trend toward lower-cost diets
Americans are consuming more refined carbohydrates, more added sugars, and more [...]
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Cliff on March 13, 2009 |
Spinach, it’s one of the most nutritious vegetables you can eat and considerably more delicate than other leafy greens. Because of this, it’s easy to overcook, which makes it drab and unappealing. Spinach is filled with flavonoids, which may have antioxidant properties, and its plentiful vitamin K (1,000 percent of the daily recommended value in [...]
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Cliff on March 5, 2009 |
As athletes we eat a lot or at least we think we do. Checkout some of the eating records below….
24″ Pizza
7 1/2 Extra Large Bacci Pizza Slices
15 Minutes/ July 9, 2005
Richard LeFevre
16″ Pizza
45 Slices/Famous Famiglia Pizza
10 Minutes/October 13, 2008
Joey Chestnut
Armour Vienna Sausage
8.31 pounds Armour Vienna Sausage /Lowe’s Motor Speedway Charlotte
10 Minutes/ May [...]
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Part Time Athlete on February 18, 2009 |
I don’t eat as healthy as I should. It’s not that I don’t care about my body, I do…to some degree…but rather I feel the problem lies in the fact that I listen too carefully to my body.
I eat whatever it tells me too.
You see [...]
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