What is your goal? Do you want to build lean muscle or muscle mass? Get into top shape (or keep making progress towards top shape)? Improve your overall well being? Increase focus, concentration, and productivity? Boost your mood? Whatever your health and wellness objective, enjoying a balanced diet is essential in achieving them. The...

Food is fuel. In our fast-paced, pre-packaged world, it is too easy to fill our tanks with junk – but we know how that goes. We get tired, we slump, we don’t think or move at our peak. It’s important for athletes – and anyone, for that matter – to put high quality fuel...

Forget milkshakes… nothing brings all the boys and girls to the yard more effectively than the aroma of ribs, steak, burgers, and other delicious treats being cooked to perfection over the flames. Sure, grilling is great (really, really great, actually), but smoking is where it’s at when it comes to locking in unbelievable flavor....

It’s the big game, people. No more messing around. It’s time to put on our warrior faces and go to battle… with the stove, the oven, and the crockpot. Game day finger foods are not a game. They’re serious business, and we’re going to help you win big with easy-to-make game day meat appetizers....

Are you confused about what is “healthy” and what is not? Sure, we all know taking a walk and eating fresh broccoli is healthy, while eating a greasy pile of fries covered in sodium and sugary ketchup is not… but there is a whole world of grey in between. A recent study revealed that...

Let’s forget resolutions. Let’s just be healthier and happy this year! Take the pressure off yourself, remove barriers to success, and focus on taking a few simple steps along your journey to enhanced wellness. It’s possible! Here are nine ways to do it. See what works for you, integrate a habit or two, like...

Forget Cross Fit. The average construction worker burns about 340 calories an hour. In an 8-hour day, that’s at least a whopping 2720 calories burned – and that is in addition to the 1600- 2000 the average person needs to function. That’s a whole lot of energy expenditure. Working on a job site requires...

Even if you don’t feel like working out, when you overcome all your excuses and hit the trails, bike, free weights, court, pool, or field, there’s nothing that feels better than a good sweat. Your breathing is fast and hard, your heart is pumping, and your endorphins are flowing. As you recover, a sense...

If you have embraced the keto lifestyle, you know that the hardest part isn’t battling cravings for processed, high-carb foods. Once you start finding the right balance, you feel better – and the thought of going back gets further and further from your mind. No, what’s hard is finding keto friendly snacks to buy! ...

Hitting the slopes? Trekking through the back country? Gliding through fresh trails? Sounds good to us. Not only is this a great way to enjoy nature at its most refreshing (provided you’re properly dressed!), you can’t beat it as a workout. A 155-pound person will burn about 446 calories per hour downhill skiing and...

There’s sitting-in-a-blind-all-day hunting and then there’s trekking-your-way-through-fields-forests-and mountains-in-pursuit-of-game hunting. If you’re a get-off-your-butt type of hunter, we salute you. And we also know that you work up a powerful hunger out there. Why is refueling so important – and what is the best food to take hunting?  Be Choosy Forget CrossFit, spinning, or HIIT....