How Does Supplementing with Creatine work?

Let’s use a simple analogy to explain the overall gist before getting into specifics.

You can think of supplementing with creatine just like you would think about watering a plant

Let’s say you planted basil seeds in a pot in your...

Tried out a new super easy salmon marinade this week and it was sooo goood!

Ingredients

• Wild-caught salmon from ButcherBox
• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar 
• 2 tablespoon soy sauce or coconut aminos
• 1 teaspoon miso paste
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
• 1/2 teaspoon chili flakes
• 1...

This salmon bowl is an easy and delicious weeknight dinner that comes together in under 15-minutes 

Ingredients

• Wild-caught salmon from ButcherBox
• Fresh lemon juice
• Lemon pepper seasoning & salt from Redmond
• Quinoa
• Bone broth
• Cucumbers, chopped
• Olive oil
• Fresh chopped...

First of all, you know, just kind of like the old school thought that like you need to be sweating, your, your heart rate needs to be up the entire time you need to like, feel like you're actually, you know, working if and the only way to do that is if you are sweating and you're, you're like,...

So I think my opinion on this has evolved over the years as it should, as we learn more as we try out different things. I personally think that it's not as important as some people probably put it out to be. I think that, at least for me, I used to spend a lot of time, like doing like, I used...

It was probably one of the hardest things I've done for because it was a video shoot, not a photo shoot, but well actually, there was a photo shoot the fourth day, but it was a five day video shoot, like all day long type thing. Amazing, you know, experience had a really great team there who...

If your energy sucks during your workouts or you feel like you tap out mid-way through…might be time to start paying closer attention to your meal timing and nutrition around your training sessions ‍

This is an example of a pre-workout "snack" I'll consume about 45...

I will say one thing with that is that there is something called pre exhausting the muscles. However, you need to be very careful with the movement that you choose. So like you were saying, you know, traditionally, you wouldn't do leg extensions, which is a quad isolation movement before a back...

So that's the only thing that from experience, I'll say, with the, the like if your main goal is hypertrophy over strength, not that they don't happen the same time, they absolutely do, we talked about in the program. But there are other things that you can do if you've been doing the same...

I feel like this is a debate that we could have because I was in that camp a lot with not like, oh, using machines is for, you know, wimps or like only when you're injured. But I think this could be a separate episode where we talk about the our, our opinions, and we do talk about this a little...

I was laughing at this because earlier in the day, so we're doing this 30 gram per meal protein challenge in my Flex fam group coaching. And it's like a 21 day challenge of 30 grams per meal, breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, spaced out evenly throughout the day, whatever. And the challenge...

So that's where the mindfulness, the self awareness and auditing yourself, which we'll go through in a minute, is where the bulk of what it's the bulk of what you should be paying attention to. And on top of that, many, many people are doing something, right, they're following some type of...