Your Guide To Healthy Snacks For Athletes: Part 1

Sports Snacks – All created equal?

Are all sports snacks and supplements created equal? This expert breaks down his 3 rules for picking the perfect snack that won’t bust your waistline while filling you up and providing you the energy you need! Check out Part I now!

DIY Gym Equipment Must-Haves

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The Low-Down on Building Your Own DIY Tools

Not the biggest fan of working out at the gym? Make some of these DIY gym must-haves. These simple tools can help you create an effective DIY gym that you can use to get great results at home or even outside!

Compartment Pressure: Preventing Overuse Injuries

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The Secret to Avoiding Overuse Injuries

We are all constantly on our feet either hustling through our jobs or staying fit via exercise. Check out this expert article that breaks down a common overuse injury and how you can prevent it!

Best Outdoor Workout Ideas: Who Likes to Exercise Outside?

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Exercising In the Great Outdoors

Whether it’s solo or with a group of friends, getting out in the great outdoors and exercising can be a great way to stay active and healthy! Try these tips below the next time you hit the trail or the beach for some exercise!

5 Travel Workouts To Keep You Fit

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Your Traveling Fitness Routine

Travel can be the ultimate killer of your DIY fitness routine. It becomes easy to skip your workout while on the go. Well, not anymore. This expert breaks down 5 tips you can use to keep your fitness routine alive and well!

Calorie Cage Fight

From Crossfit to Pole Dancing…

Have you ever considered how many calories get burned when you’re swimming, doing yoga, CrossFit…maybe even pole dancing? Ready to find out? We’ve put together this infographic that contrasts 8 popular workouts to determine which one dominates in the destruction of calories. We call this our Calorie Cage Fight, so let’s introduce our contenders!

5 Minute Exercise at Home for Moms

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A 5 Minute Workout to Get You Active

Yeah, I’m like a broken record… I keep repeating myself and going on and on about how a little exercise can go a long friggin’ way! It’s so true! Being active for 5-10 minutes is better than nothing – especially for all the time-crunched parents out there! It gets your heart rate elevated and you use your muscles! Give this 5-minute workout a try next time you are pinched for time…so about any day of the week! 🙂

Recipe: Eggplant Caponata

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Eggplant Caponata Recipe

Eggplants and tomatoes are vegetables that produce compounds to protect themselves against oxidative stress and infection, and guess what! These antioxidants and anti-inflammatories are passed on to you when you eat them! Try this eggplant caponata tonight!

Eggplant Caponata Ingredients

  • ½ cup olive oil
  • 2 pounds eggplant, peel thick skin if necessary and cut into 1-inch cubes
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 1 rib celery, roughly chopped
  • 3 tablespoons tomato paste, thinned with 1/4 cup water
  • 1 cup fresh, good quality tomatoes, chopped
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • 6 ounces green olives, pitted and roughly chopped
  • ½ cup white wine vinegar
  • ½ cup golden raisins
  • ¼ cup capers, rinsed and drained
  • 3 tablespoons agave nectar
  • 2 tablespoons unsweetened chocolate, finely grated
  • ½ cup finely shredded basil
  • 2 tablespoons pine nuts

7 Best Foods For Energy

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Super Foods to the Rescue

We’ve all read about superfoods and how they pack a nutrient and vitamin punch that can help us live a long, healthy life. Check out this top list of 7 superfoods that will help improve your health and make you just as “super!”

Wakefulness Enhancers to Increase Productivity?

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Increase Productivity With a Pill?

Need a way to increase productivity? One of the hottest up-and-coming trends in workplace nutrition is wakefulness enhancers. In fact, several movies have shown these as if they are “smart” pills that improve efficiency and productivity – think a badass James Bond focus and intensity. Are they for you? Check out some of the latest information on this rapidly growing market!