INTENSITY is what drives our progress and results.

How heavy were your weights, how many reps did you do, how long did it take you?

These are all direct expressions of our intensity (or power).

This is also why your coach (wink wink) asks to see these metrics and wants you to keep track as well.

What results are we shooting for?

Well, what are your goals? Are you looking for changes to your body composition? Are you training for an event? Are you trying to run a 5 minute mile?

Adding intensity to your workouts is what will move you closer and closer to that goal.

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The grocery store shelves were empty. Plastic bags covered the handles of the gas pumps that had run dry. We were trapped in our home. Afraid and anxious, wondering if we would ever feel “normal” again.

If one of your goals to improve your health is to shed some body fat, you might be surprised at how your sleep (or lack thereof) could cause you to lose just as much muscle as you do fat! Let’s not let that happen!

Every once in a while it’s good to go deep into a topic to really understand what’s going on. Today is one of those days.

It will be a practical discussion and hopefully by the end you have a great understanding of what calories really are, why you need them, how to know how many you need, and why it’s important to take losing or gaining weight seriously (and how to do it right).

As it stands, after housing, most Americans spend more money on food than anything else in their budget.  

According to the Bureau of Labor, the average household spends about $8,000 on food in 2018.  (about $3,500 of that was spent at restaurants and the rest was spent at the grocery store).  

Any way you slice it, it’s a lot of money.  

The cost of food increases slightly year after year and as a culture we are eating out at restaurants more and more.

It’s no secret that making your own food at home is substantially cheaper than buying it already prepared from a restaurant.   But even within the walls of the supermarket there are a lot of choices that an affect your grocery budget bottom line.

Are you a chef?

Can you whip up amazing meals without giving it a second thought?

Yeah, us neither.

Over the years we have learned that you can accomplish 2 main things by learning to cook most of your own food.

#1 - Save a bunch of money.

Restaurants are crazy expensive. I mean, a “value” meal at a place like Subway is going to set you back at least $10. How much are you going to spend at a mediocre chain restaurant for dinner? $15-20 per person? It adds up fast!

#2 - Save a bunch of calories.

If you’re going to start cooking at home there are some basic kitchen essentials that you need to have on hand to set yourself up for success.

Food packaging is ridiculous. Companies know that we have short attention spans and that we’re on a mission to look for healthy options.

Often they use these facts to confuse and mislead us by plastering the front of the package with buzzwords and bolt font highlighting things that we believe to be “healthy” all while hiding the ugly truth.

You drank the kool-aid or someone twisted your arm and convinced you to log your daily food intake. It’s a worthwhile effort because guessing and estimating will only get you so far.

And there is really no better way to accurately know how much you are eating.

If you’re getting serious about losing fat or building muscle, how much you eat makes all the difference.

The downside of using apps like MyFitnessPal is that there’s a bit of a learning curve and it can be a little overwhelming in the beginning.

We’ll, you’re in luck because we are here to:

1. Walk you through the steps that will get you going in the right direction.

2. Show you the common problems when you set your goals up.

3. Show you how to log food/meals the right way.

4. Show you how to get more accurate with your food quantities when logging.