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?!
Category: Bill Esch
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
A Workout Routine For When You Are Traveling
The above picture appeared in the Maribel Country Club newsletter recently from a golf trip I took with my family to see my parents wintering in Scottsdale. The caption was three generations exercising. The staff was so excited because they could not recall ever having three generations in the room working out at one time. … Continue reading A Workout Routine For When You Are Traveling
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
Running For Fat Loss
I have been in the field of health and fitness for going on 17 years now. The amount of misinformation on how to lose body fat has only grown more with the onset of the internet. Most people treat health and fitness like mob bosses and hit-men treat spirituality; they do horrible crimes during the… Continue reading Running For Fat Loss
Be An Athlete And Get Off The Cart
The average golfer tends to take up golf at an age when he or she is no longer racing around the sports field, nor any other physically demanding sports. Golf is generally viewed as a game of technical skill rather than an athletic event, requiring less exertion than other sports. This common misconception often leads… Continue reading Be An Athlete And Get Off The Cart