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Listening to Your Body

Jun 9, 2020
4 min

Listening to Your Body

Your body has a lot to say and is in constant communication with you. Whether or not you are listening is the issue. From waking up in the morning feeling tired to craving certain foods to feeling sore; your body is trying to tell you what it needs in order to be at its best. I am going to try to cover these various messages your body is giving you in as succinct a way as possible, because each message could be a blog post in itself. Let’s start with cravings. Cravings ca

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May 26, 2020
3 min

To Lift or Not to Lift?

The answer to that question is yes. There are many benefits that come from resistance training. The type of training you do depends on what you are looking to get out of the workout regimen you are doing. Are you looking to improve your mile time or are you looking to put on muscle mass and see some muscular definition? Endurance type athlete: Lifting weights is still something that should be done. The type of resistance training you do here should be muscular endurance t

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Mar 2, 2020
3 min

Self-Experimentation #1

Hello friends. Today I am sharing with you all my plant-based diet experience. For starters, I did this to give myself some experience with this diet prior to conducting a possible study that asks participants to partake in a plant-based diet intervention for a 4-week time period. I am an advocate of being your first client, especially when you are going to be asking someone to make a change to their lifestyle, you should be able to relate and pull from your own personal e

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Jul 7, 2018
2 min

CrossFit pt.2

Okay, so I can’t share with you all anything about the test, but I can tell you about how awesome my weekend at the CF L2 course was. Just to let you guys know, I am super shy and I almost didn’t want to go to the course because I knew before going there I would have to coach in front of people I didn’t know and that is COMPLETELY out of my comfort zone. So that was my emotional/mental state entering into the weekend. I was forced to step WAY outside of my comfort zone and ho

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Jun 30, 2018
1 min

CrossFit

So this Saturday is a pretty exciting one because I am at Reebok CrossFit One in Boston, Massachusetts for the CrossFit Level 2 certificate course. Almost 5 years ago I was sitting in the exact place completing the Level 1 certificate course. I was the youngest one there. I started doing CrossFit when I was in 8th grade(about 7 years ago) and I fell in love with it. It took less than a year of doing CrossFit for me to decide that one day I was going to open my own CrossFit af

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Shoutout Pinterest (Again)

Jun 2, 2018
1 min

Shoutout Pinterest (Again)

So I was scrolling through Pinterest as usual and I came across this image: I really relate to this quote and thought this would be a good thing to share here. Sometimes it is hard to stay motivated to workout when you are comparing yourself to someone else. This is often my problem. I will feel unmotivated to workout or just not feel great about my workout because I am thinking it isn’t good enough compared to someone else. I know I shouldn’t compare myself to other peop

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Pinterest is a Wonderful Thing

Apr 28, 2018
1 min

Pinterest is a Wonderful Thing

So the other day while procrastinating studying for final exams I was scrolling through my Pinterest and came across an awesome quote: I really love this because it is something that even I forget sometimes. I am guilty of forcing myself to exercise and workout when my body really needs to relax because I ate one too many candy bars or gummy bears or had an extra latte or too many mixed drinks. Exercise is supposed to be an outlet for stresses and an enjoyable activity. The m

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Feb 24, 2018
3 min

Fuel for Performance

Fueling your body for athletic performance requires some planning and willingness to eat things that may not always be whole foods and ‘healthy’. With fueling for performance comes nutrient timing. For example pre activity you are going to want to have carbs and proteins with little to no fat within an hour of said activity. This will allow your body to use the energy sources quickly and efficiently. Fats take your body longer to use and longer to digest and thus will not be

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Feb 17, 2018
3 min

Nutrition Tracking

My ultimate favorite thing is when people say, “Wow *insert name* looks so good, I need to eat like him/her!!”. This line really gets me because what works for one person, does not always work for another person. Weight loss isn’t as simple as lowering calories in and raising calories out. There is no blanket diet that will be 100% effective for every single person, so eating just like someone else is not the answer for making personal changes. You are you, and you are spe

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Feb 10, 2018
1 min

Hello Everyone!

Hey everyone, My name is Paige and I am a 21 year old college student studying Exercise Science. I am also a college athlete and an aspiring physical therapist. Some of you may have found this blog through my Instagram account @pd.wellness (if you did thanks for following me) and if you found this blog through other means, thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoy! So this is something that I have been thinking about doing for some time now, and I have been back and fo

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