Planning Your Diet Tutorial

Just follow the steps below and the video will walk you through how to figure out your daily calories using the automatic calculator here on the site.

But first a rant…

I know diet can be really confusing but honestly and truly the biggest problem I see with peoples diets is that that don’t even eat REAL FOOD. Eat from scratch. Period. That’s it.

You don’t have time right? That’s poor logic. Why would you waste an hour in the gym, plus travel time, if all your sweat and effort is for nothing. If you are still eating packaged materials, with all the chemicals and empty calories, the gym might slow the damage but you’ll never look and feel great.

I didn’t write that without thinking. Every word of it is true. Find a frozen dinner or breaded chicken in the woods for me. You can’t do it and that’s why your body gets so messed up when you eat that stuff. It doesn’t even know what to do with it. Sometimes, it will even classify it as poison. That’s when you get gut rot, drowsy, headaches or water retention.

The food industry is scamming us so hard, that we think being fat and feeling like crap is normal and that skinny people must work real hard or not eat hardly anything. It’s lies.

Here is how to figure your daily calories if you like to do things by numbers:

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Crux Nutrition Secrets

like most people, you’ve probably been on a diet at some point in your life. Maybe you’ve followed on of the most recent fads, counting your calories or focusing on your intake of carbohydrates, fats, and protein. You’ve no doubt heard countless ads for miracles supplements that supposedly help you lose weight or gain energy.
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What Is Periodization?

Periodization is when you cycle your training objective over the short term in order that the long term goal be recognized more efficiently. This is done through the use of macrocycles, mesocycles and microcycles.

An example of periodization for a ATP/CP athlete would be to spend 3-4 weeks on foundation training, 3-4 weeks on Functional Strength, 3-4 weeks of Plyometrics training and ending with 3-4 weeks of overspeed/overskill drills.

While a time frame of 3-4 weeks is used for these periodization cycles, this does not mean a dead start and stop approach. Each phase of the periodization model is eased in and out with some components remaining throughout with less emphasis.

5 Things Your Trainer Should Never Do

Today I have 5 things that your personal trainer should never do for you. These are five guidelines that personal trainers should follow in regards to appropriate actions or recommendations regarding sports medicine related problems are:

1. Your personal trainer should never attempt to diagnose an injury or any other medical health condition.
2. Your personal trainer should never attempt to dispense any kind of medication whatsoever (including juice and over the counter medications) to anyone.
3. Your personal trainer should never attempt to treat any health condition or injury under any circumstances whatsoever (except first aid).
4. You personal trainer should never prescribe exercise for anyone with a known medical problem without first obtaining clearance to do so and or instructions from the attending sports medicine expert.
5. Lastly, your personal trainer should never, if they suspect that a problem exists, continue any personal training with you until the problem has been fixed by a competent professional in that field.

AND THE BONUS ONE. Your personal trainer should never tell a female client she is fat. HOWEVER, a great range for fit males is 10-14% and for females 14-18% would be great should you care to do so. Not that your fat..it must be the jeans…You Folks Have Any More You’d Care To Ad?

Building your MMA/Sports Program

Building your MMA/Sports Program:

This is one of those questions that I am asked a lot so I though that I would write a little about it.

I use 5 Steps in building my workout for the different sport(s) that I do which is mostly MMA. These are what I tell people to do:

1) Breakdown the different components of your sport.

a) What kinds of movements are required?
b) What kinds of strengths and conditioning is required?
c) What techniques do I perform constantly?
d) Which muscles do I use (even the little ones)?
e) What movements do I use (am I slow and calculated or explosive)?
f) Does your sport require you to hold a piece of equipment? What equipment do I use?

2) Search for Drills and exercises that pertain to the questions above and do them. Learn from people who know!!!!!!
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