Wondering what foods are the best performance promoting foods? This video is on what foods will help to improve your performance versus foods that prevent improvements in your performance. Check it out for some helpful tips on how to perform at your best ability in that next race or athletic event, or to just improve […]

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Do you know your food? Here is a quick video about the 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Food. Do you really know what you’re eating? This video is about reading food labels and points out 5 major things you didn’t know about your food. Check it out for a quick lesson on how […]

Do you know your food?

  Grocery Shopping for Meal Prep – here’s a quick video blog about how our registered sports dietician, Kristen Ziesmer, grocery shops to prepare her meals for upcoming sports and body competitions! Watching this video, you’ll learn how sports dietitians grocery shop and how to shop on a budget. Kristen explains her process for grocery […]

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Competition Prep: Supplements – video blog by Kristen Ziesmer, RD and sports certified dietician Week 2 of Competition Prep Done! This week I will be focusing on supplements because this is such a hot topic. The supplement industry is a multi-billion dollar a year industry and supplement companies will do just about anything and everything […]

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Spring cleaning is here! Spring is the perfect time to not only ditch the dust bunny-ridden clothes sitting in the back of your closet, but also cleanse your body for the inevitably approaching summer season. Though it may sound daunting to think about getting into your tiniest bikini in the next few months, if you […]

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Alright, so we’ve talked about Green Tea Extract and Coffee Bean Extract as two of the millions of weight loss supplements that promise to make you thin, now let’s talk CLA, or Conjugated Linoleic Acid. You probably haven’t heard as much about CLA as you have about green tea extract or coffee bean extract, because it’s […]

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Metabolism is the body’s process that converts food, water, and oxygen into energy for all of your daily activities, not just exercise. The calories in the food you consume are just units of energy. During metabolism, this energy is converted into a simpler form. The energy created from this process will either be immediately used […]

Training Diary: Meal Preparation Does meal preparation make you a little nervous or confused? Preparing meals in advance can be a daunting task, but this video can help! Watch as Kristen Ziesmer, RD shows you how she preps and cooks her meals for the week – all in advance. Not only does this video give some good tips […]

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Are you one of “those” who thinks a sports nutrition plan or fueling for your race consists of just downing a big pasta dinner the night before? You may be laughing but you know it’s true for many athletes! Weight lifters, you are not exempt from this either! Unfortunately, fueling your body for performance starts […]

Here is a quick plyometrics routine we put together that you can do at home. For those of you that have never tried plyometric training before, it is no joke. Plyometrics which is also referred to as “jump training” is a form of exercise that exerts maximum amount of force in a short amount of […]