Restricting Fruit Intake?!

Did Fruits are a great way to get healthy antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.  Many of us choose fruit over vegetables simply because fruits taste betteryou know that you can get all the healthy antioxidants, minerals and vitamins from vegetables without consuming any fruit?  True story. Fructose is the simple sugar found in fruit.  An over… Continue reading Restricting Fruit Intake?!

Intermittant Fasting Protocols

The protocol Most clients maintain their 8-hour feeding-window between 12-2 pm and 8-10 pm on all days. For those doing early morning fasted training I have maintained that feeding window and added small feedings of BCAA pre- and post-workout. Similar to fasted training, 10 g BCAA is ingested pre-workout. However, instead of initiating the feeding… Continue reading Intermittant Fasting Protocols

How Food Affects Your Behavior

With Labor Day around the corner and the backyard barbecues continue, consider what you’re eating.  Maybe you don’t normally eat BBQ or drink  alcohol.  But summer and fall football games do something to all of us.  Summer makes us feel young and indispensable.  Therefore, our diets revert back to a time when we either didn’t… Continue reading How Food Affects Your Behavior

Breathe for Golf

Man is to air as a fish is to water. We cannot live without air.  It is a necessity to our existence. Yet, it is so present in our lives and available that most of us are unaware of it and the power it beholds for us. To increase one’s strength, one must first learn… Continue reading Breathe for Golf

Spend Five Minutes With This Stretch to Improve Your Mobility

I believe in looking at motion to decipher if someone is going to have joint issues. One of the more problematic movement issues we deal with at Smith and Esch is overly tight hipflexors and quads. When the hipflexor and quads get tight, they tend to shut down the neural recruitment of the glutes and… Continue reading Spend Five Minutes With This Stretch to Improve Your Mobility

Dr. Weston A. Price

I have always found it interesting that most of our studies on health and nutrition have been focused on observing sick people to figure out how to get healthy. Finding irregularities in their physical make up and blaming it on a genetic flaw, like being predisposed to high cholesterol no matter how well you take… Continue reading Dr. Weston A. Price