Image and recipe from: myvega.com One of the biggest misconceptions about living a healthy lifestyle, losing weight and getting fit is that you can't have dessert! When you make your own sweet [Read More]
NUTRITION
YOUR MARATHON NUTRITION & HYDRATION PLAN
By Robert Forster, PT, CEO If you’re gearing up for the LA Marathon on March 8, you’re probably somewhere around the 20-mile mark in your training by now. This is the ideal time to perfect your [Read More]
SHELLS WITH BIBB LETTUCE AND SPRING PEAS
Image and recipe: health.com When trying to achieve any fitness goals, it's essential to match your nutrition to your level of activity – this means, you don't eat the same way every day. If you're [Read More]
GINGER & TURMERIC SPICED CARROT SOUP
Image and Recipe: Gourmand in the Kitchen "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." - Hippocrates While modern medicine has brought incredible advances in the treatment of disease, with [Read More]
HOW EXERCISE AND NUTRITION MAY RELIEVE YOUR BACK PAIN
By Shelby Stoner, PHASE IV Exercise Physiologist FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Each year, 50% of Americans over the age of 18 develop a musculoskeletal injury that lasts longer than 3 months. That’s 108 million [Read More]
THE GUT-ARTHRITIS CONNECTION
PHASE IV Functional Nutrition & Health While scientists haven’t settled on a concrete cause for what causes rheumatoid arthritis, newer and newer research is pointing towards the microbiome in [Read More]
4 TWEAKS IN 4 WEEKS FOR YOUR BEST MARATHON EVER
By CEO Robert Forster, PT 1. ADD WATER AND LOSE PROCESSED CARBS Do one deep water running workout a week and feel your power and speed come up. Running in deep water with a flotation belt for buoyancy [Read More]
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET
By Tina Paymaster, PHASE IV Functional Nutrition & Health Specialist A QUICK HISTORY… The Mediterranean diet is one of the most thoroughly researched and studied diets. Named after the [Read More]