Top Health and Fitness Trackers Hello, it’s Coach Hunter here. I wanted to discuss the Success Team’s favorite health and fitness tracking gadgets. As a Bodybuilder and Board-certified Health Coach myself, health tracking is something I have spent a ton of time doing myself and researching for others, with
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Read This Before You Get A Trainer
What Does Being Coachable Mean? Definition of a Coach: A dedicated person who sees the hidden potential and maximizes performance by encouraging, developing, and believing. Additionally, someone that leads by example gives you your plan(s), and someone that helps others overcome fears and struggles. **What a coach is
Common Hormone Disrupters
Hormones don’t stay the same over years, months, weeks, or hours. They will always be in a constant ebb and flow, but what we put into our bodies and lifestyle choices will affect that natural balance of our hormones. The messages we give to our body will influence how well
Dieting Mistake: Downhill Dieting
My advanced chart in this image shows that the person dieting downhill is failing. A quote from the book Metabolism Made Simple. “Antiquated “wisdom” around the idea of calories, energy, and traditional diets—and, more specifically, their execution—has failed our society. I call this linear subtraction of calories and increase in
Resetting Insulin Sensitivity
Resetting insulin sensitivity (Part 1)… Why would I have someone do an insulin reset protocol? And how do I know that someone needs to do a reset? The first and easiest way to know is to check your blood sugars with a glucometer or CGM if you see a fasting
How to Pick Your Class and Division(s) For Your Bodybuilding Competition
So you want to compete in a bodybuilding show? Here is how to pick your class and division(s) How To Pick Your Class And Division(s) Did you know that “Bodybuilding” now encompasses seven different classes/categories? We have traditional Bodybuilding, which is what most people think of when they hear “Bodybuilding,”
How Long Before A Show Should You Start Posing Practice?
The more prep time you can have for your posing practice, the better. Some initial poses can take a reasonable amount of time to get dialed in effectively. If you consider this and know that you will be doing a contest, then it’s recommended to do posing practice
Can You Eat Out on Contest Prep or a Diet?
Is it acceptable to eat out when on a contest prep diet? Note: This sushi meal was the only meal I had for 38 weeks before my bodybuilding show, and I brought a food scale to measure it all out. The salad in the photo was after show #1 of
Why Fad diets don’t work “Downhill Dieting”
Why Fad diets don’t work “Downhill Dieting” You can see the difference in my labs from a dieted state vs an off-session fed state. Too many “Fit” Influencers with alluring advertisements and immense followings sell “get fit quick” programs that put trainees on protocols that emphasize more training and less
Post-Workout Eating Tips For Success
How long should you wait after your workout to eat?? There are better ideas than eating immediately after or fasting for long periods after training. Here’s why… Fast answers: Fasting after training is catabolic (you’ll lose muscle) Eating too fast after training is too hard on digestion (you won’t digest