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Join Me and Melissa Hartwig This Saturday

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Are you headed to the Expo West this weekend? Join me this Saturday, March 11th, from 12:00-1:00 P.M. PST when I’m teaming up with my friend, Melissa Hartwig of Whole30®, for a full hour of Meet and Greet (booth H1013). And just to add to the fun, the first 50 people who show up will walk away with a free Primal Kitchen® Whole30® Approved item. And no worries if you can’t make it to the Expo. Join Melissa and I on the Primal Kitchen Facebook page for a Facebook Live chat at 11:45 A.M. PST this Saturday, when we’ll talk about the show and my brand new Whole30® Approved products—Egg-Free Mayo as well as Green Goddess and Caesar Dressings.  You won’t want to miss it. I’ll look forward to meeting the Primal crowd this Saturday. Grok on, everybody! The post Join Me and Melissa Hartwig This Saturday appeared first on Mark's Daily Apple . from Mark's Daily Apple http://ift.tt/2m1bSRs

10 Uncommon Exercises For Maintaining Strength, Agility, and Power With Age

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The older you get, the more important strength, agility, power, and lean mass become—and the greater the risk of their decline. This isn’t how most people approach old age. They expect strength and all the other trappings of physical capacity to degenerate, and so they do. It’s what happens all around us, every day. Seniors are feeble, right? The weight room is scary for a lot of people. Hell, even able-bodied youngsters in the prime of their lives shy away from lifting heavy things. So, first things first: Seniors should definitely strength train . If you’re unsure of your form and capabilities, find a trainer who works with older folks and ensure your safety. Just get out there. But it’s not the only way. If, for whatever reason, you can’t or won’t do traditional strength training , or you just want to diversify your training arsenal, I’ve come up with several uncommon exercises and activities to help you stay strong, agile, fit, and powerful as you age . Let’s go: Taking the St

Secrets To Eating More Salads

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Happy Registered Dietitian Day!! Geez, that picture feels like forever ago, and why was I wearing a seashell necklace from the 90s?! Hahaha. It’s been seven years since I passed the RD exam , and even longer since I went back to school. Never would I have imagined that this is where I would end up when I set out on that path! I am thrilled to be dipping my toes back in the field with Designed To Fit Nutrition , and I’ve been loving helping clients find creative ways to enjoy real food while meeting their nutrition needs. My goal with KERF has always been to answer the question “ How do you eat real food?” Most people know the why and the what . If you asked 100 people on the street “What should you eat to be healthy?” I bet SALAD would be one of the top answers. I try to eat at least one salad every day. Sometimes it’s a big meal-sized bowl packed with all kinds of things, and other times it’s a simple side salad while I’m out, just trying to get something green in my dinner. And

An Often Overlooked Piece of Recovery

Written by: Kevin Cann As a coach understanding how each lift affects recovery is also important when writing programs. The bench is the easiest to recover from, the squat is the next easiest, and the last is the deadlift. What makes the deadlift a tougher lift to recover from then the other 2? I think it lies in the biggest difference between the deadlift and the other 2, it requires grip strength. The hands are very unique. The small muscles of the hand contain over 200,000 neurons. We use our hands to learn a lot about our environment. The hands are one of the densest sites of neurons in the human body. This means that we get a lot of strong reflexes coming from the hands. For example, if we touch something hot we will pull our hands back quickly before the pain is even felt. Once we experience that reflex, we learn that the thing that we touched can be hot and we know to proceed with caution in the future. This allows us to travel through our environment safely. There is a maj