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#MotivationalMonday – Have you ever thought about how much of your fitness journey is actually *mental* strength? 🧐
Arguably, your mental strength is the majority of your success! Think about it: if you have a negative attitude, there is not much inspiring you to keep going and push your hardest through workouts or try your best to eat well. Once you change that to a positive attitude, its MAGIC how you’ll all of a sudden be sparked with motivation ✨
It’s not all about how strong your body is, it’s your mentality 🤓

Nutrition is the BIG DAWG always for losing those extra pounds. A great and easy way to follow this is TRY and cook all your meals. I know it’s hard but if you truly want to lose the weight you will have to sacrifice some time and that will start in the kitchen. Lets start with half your body weight and add twenty to that for your protein everyday. That is a good start. So if you weigh 100 lbs try and get 70g protein every day. Then onto the dreaded carbs. Some great carbs are fruits vegetables. Yes they are carbs. Eat them up. Then after long grueling workouts eat some rice or potatoes. These are all just suggestions. This stuff has worked for me over the years.

The second best thing to do is strength train. Everyone has a BMR. Basic metabolic rate. This is how many calories your body burn everyday if you were just sitting on the couch. The way to increase BMR is to gain muscle. How you gain muscle >>>> GET STRONGER. If you have been using the same weight for years your body will not be stressed enough for changes. The goal should be to get as STRONG as you can with good form. So bump up those 30lb goblet squats. Lets shoot to get to the weights on the bottom rack. If you aren’t good at pushups elevate them. The only way to get stronger at pushups is to do them full range. If you are deadlifting the 88lb Kettle Bell like a BOSS try two 53s. If you can’t do a chin up start doing chin up holds or chin up negatives. If you have a question ASK! Guys we are here to help you. If you have questions we will try our best to give you the answer of do research to figure if out for you. Hope this helps. Lets eat well and get STRONG!!

Trainer Tip of the week: This simple band pull apart exercise could help your posture!
What will this do for me? When performing band pull aparts and focusing on keeping your chest up tall, you could help mend the hunched over position many of us have- whether it is sitting at a desk or a computer!
Check out the Trainer Tip of the week here!

#MotivationalMonday: As we’re closing up the second month of 2020, we’re about 1/6 of the way through this year.. have you stuck to the New Years Resolution you made? 🧐🧐If you have, YOU ARE AWESOME, and if you haven’t, YOU ARE STILL AWESOME 😍 This quote today is just a reminder that every Monday is the start of a new week that we can think of when attaining a larger goal. Say that your New Years Resolution was to drink more water every day; Just because you messed it up last week doesn’t mean you blew it for the year! Start over every Monday; take it one week at a time 😎

With spring break and summer right around the corner, that can only mean two things…. trying to lose a couple extra pounds for that trip to the beach and the occasional alcoholic beverage! How exactly though does drinking alcohol affect fat loss, and is it even possible to lose weight while enjoying a drink here or there? Luckily the answer might surprise you!

No matter how you break it down, alcohol is basically a poison to our body. Even though we might enjoy that feeling of being a little “tipsy” our body wants absolutely nothing to do with it at all! That’s why when we drink our body’s main priority is to get the alcohol out of our system as fast as possible. This is why we tend to have to make a couple extra bathroom breaks during the night because our body is doing everything it can to get that alcohol out of our system. Since our body’s main priority is to get rid of the alcohol in our system, it shifts all of its resources to getting that “poison” out. This means that instead of digesting those nachos and buffalo wings you had for dinner, your body’s more concerned about getting rid of the 5 Miller Lites you had to wash them down.That means that when you drink, your body doesn’t do a great job of digesting food, which in turn has a higher chance to be stored as fat! Of course having an occasional glass of wine with dinner won’t pack on the pounds, but let’s be honest how many of us are only having one drink on a trip down to Mexico?

 Here are a couple helpful tips to help you enjoy a night out without having to worry about your waistline:

1.  Try to stick to leaner cuts of meat and vegetables if you know you have a big night ahead of you!
2. LIMIT DRUNK EATING (Snappy dog is great, probably won’t help you lose that last inch on your waist though)
3. Order your usual drink with a diet or soda water instead of the usual high sugar mixers they come with
4. Be proactive! Try to get a workout in during the day!
5. Don’t let the hangover, hang you up to dry! Even if you had a terrible night of drinking, with all the hot dogs and desserts, don’t let this carry into the next day! Put it behind you, and try to get right back on track. One day of fun won’t ruin your progress anyways!