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Measuring Body Fat

Measuring Body Fat

Nutrition One of the most important tools in monitoring your progress is tracking the change in your body fat percentage.  Far too often we only look at the scale, but fixating on body weight is not necessarily the right thing to do.  When we start a rigorous workout program,...
by Feb 07, 2011 59 Comments
Pop/Diet Pop

Pop/Diet Pop

Nutrition Okay, we all know that regular pop is bad for you.  That’s a no-brainer.  It’s full of refined sugar and refined sugar is bad! But what about diet pop?  It has no sugar and no calories.  How bad can it be for you?? Well, before I answer that, let me just...
by Jan 31, 2011 24 Comments
Shakeology Taste

Shakeology Taste

Nutrition I remember how excited I was to get my first bag of Chocolate Shakeology.  I was 1 month into my Round 1 transformation, and I was starting to see results, but I wanted to MAXIMIZE my results and had finally pulled the trigger on Shakeology.  Honestly, I didn’t...
by Jan 25, 2011 56 Comments
Seeing Results?

Seeing Results?

Motivation Usually I get my blog topic ideas from questions I get asked via email on as comments to my other blog posts, and I guess y’all are just dying to know the answer to the question: “When will I start seeing results?”, or “When did you start...
by Jan 19, 2011 116 Comments
Fat Shredder Foods

Fat Shredder Foods

Nutrition Perhaps you are in the “Fat Shredder” phase of your workout program.  I was in the Fat Shredder phase for most of my first round with P90X, and believe me, if you will stick with it, you will be SHOCKED at how the body fat will melt away. For many (like...
by Jan 16, 2011 159 Comments
P90X Nutrition Plan

P90X Nutrition Plan

Nutrition P90X Nutrition Plan — Overview I want to revisit the whole topic of the P90X nutrition plan  in a single post, because I often get the same questions over and over (which I’ve answered over and over), but people don’t know where to go on the site to...
by Jan 12, 2011 147 Comments
Starvation Mode??

Starvation Mode??

Nutrition If you’ve spent any time on beachbody message boards, facebook P90X message boards, or on my teamRIPPED forum, you’ve come accross the topic of “Starvation Mode”.  Is it for real?  Will your body really go into starvation mode if you...
by Jan 09, 2011 37 Comments
Ode to Shakeology

Ode to Shakeology

Nutrition Allright gang, it’s the Christmas season, and what better way to get in the spirit than to have a little poem! As you all know from my transformation, P90X, Insanity, and Shakeology can do amazing things, even for someone who’s been relatively sedentary...
by Dec 24, 2010 9 Comments
Shakeology Cleanse

Shakeology Cleanse

Nutrition Shakeology Cleanse Putting on some unwanted holiday pounds???  Surely none of you teamRIPPED folks would do that, right!!??  But maybe there are some newbies who are visiting us for the first time as they prepare for their New Year’s Resolution, and they may be...
by Dec 20, 2010 28 Comments