Workout of the Day:
Four sets of:
In five minutes, run 600 meters, and then complete as many rounds and reps as possible of:
5 Ring Dips
10 Push-Ups
Rest exactly 5 minutes between sets.
Dallas and Melissa of Whole 9 with Robb Wolf
The Whole 9 Nutrition Seminar and My Journey to Nutritional Greatness
Written by Michele Vieux
I love to cook healthy food so much that I started a business to do it for others. Even though I quit my career in marketing to pursue this path and others have looked to me for answers and inspiration, I do not claim to be an expert in the field of nutrition. That is one of the amazing and exciting things about the health and fitness industry—there is always something new to learn.
This is the reason I will be attending the Whole9 Life Nutrition Seminar we are hosting here at Invictus on August 29th. I can’t wait to hear someone else’s perspective, knowledge, research, and tips on how to make healthy-eating feasible in today’s fast-paced world. I also want to make sure I know the effects of certain foods on the body (for both myself and my clients). New research comes out every day on this stuff and I would be an idiot to only look at 10-year-old data or data from one source. Or, to think that the findings are universal across humankind.
Like I said, I’m still learning and my quest for proper nutrition has been quite a journey for the past few years. When I first started CrossFitting, I was introduced to “The Zone.” I weighed and measured diligently and lost a lot of weight and was definitely healthier than when I didn’t pay attention to what I was consuming. But I was still eating things that caused me discomfort, like grains and peanut butter, because I didn’t know any better. All I knew was that I was balancing my meals with the proper 40:30:30 ratio and I saw results.
A couple years ago, I started to learn more about the “Paleo Diet” and its overall health benefits. I began to choose higher quality foods like greens and fruits instead of processed carbs like pita and rice. I also made the switch from my beloved peanut butter to almond butter. It was difficult at first but I started noticing results immediately. I leaned out even more. I had more energy. And, voila, a lifetime of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and heartburn disappeared and I threw out the Pepto, Tums, and Prilosec for good!
Even more recently, I have been tweaking the Paleo Diet for my personal Biosignature (more to come on this Charles Poliquin discovery in a later post). My problem sites are directly related to high cortisol levels and insulin resistance, two things you don’t want. I am now controlling those levels by cutting things I was previously taught were okay for me to consume like coffee and high insulin response foods like fruit and alcohol. I am also bumping up the use supplements like fish oils, hydrochloric acid, and an herbal adrenal support blend to help me combat some of the cortisol issues.
Now I wonder, what else can I be doing? What am I missing? What don’t I know that I could be telling you?
With the list of promises that the Whole9 Seminar offers (sign up here), I’m bound to learn something new to help myself AND you! My journey to lead by example and provide you with the most valuable and reasonable nutrition information available will take me to the Whole9 Seminar. I hope you will make it a priority as well.
