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 7 years ago Alisa and I stopped buying salad dressing and began to make our own. This recipe is by far our favorite. It’s so delicious that you’ll find yourself drinking the remaining dressing at the bottom of the bowl. It’s so easy to make you can whip it up while your guest watch. Won’t they be impressed! Let’s get started. Ingredient List3/8 cup Papa Vince EVOO3/8 cup White Balsamic Vinegar¼ rounded tsp ginger powder¼ rounded tsp salt¼ rounded tsp white pepper1 large ruby red organic grapefruit1 medium organic orange3 medium organic strawberries  Squeeze the juice from your grapefruit and orange and add it to the blender cup.      Put olive oil, balsamic vinegar, ginger powder, salt and white pepper, orange and grapefruit juice into your blender cup. Cut the leafy part of the strawberries off and add strawberries to blender cup. Blend for 1 minute. Decant into a Ball Jar...

75g of protein, 4g of carbs and 28g of fat with zero gluten or any acellular carbohydrates from any flours. Oh.. and its delicious! Lets get started... Here’s a quick and easy-to-prepare recipe if you want to eat a piece of delicious pizza but don’t want the carbohydrates associated with flour-based crusts regardless of whether or not they contain gluten. Some of you may recall Alisa and my trip to the popular New York eatery Quality Italian a few years ago. We ordered the Chicken Parmesan and what arrived like more like a wood-fired pizza than chicken. That’s because the “crust” was made of chicken breast! I recreated this dish at home and shared the recipe on Facebook. Fast forward to this weekend. Many of you know there’s an amazing new pizza product on the market that took this concept to a new level. And they’re delicious and convenient to just...

Patrik Dahlin appeared on Super Human Radio last week and discussed a meta-analysis he authored comparing the health outcomes from adherence to a vegan/vegetarian diet –vs- an omnivorous diet (that entire interview can be heard here). Many shocking things came from that discussion. The meta-analysis included over a quarter of a million human subjects. It is clear that the vegan/vegetarians of the world do not fare any better, and, in many cases, worse than their meat-eating brethren when it comes to health and longevity outcomes. Sorry it’s just the truth. What was more shocking was what was revealed at the end of the interview about the potential genetic benefits of eating beef. There’s a new one for you. Something GOOD actually attributed to eating beef. Please don’t tell Beyoncé and Jay Z. This 6 minute video below focuses specifically on this information. How eating beef effects your telomeres. Yep… those darn...

You tell me. See any linkage? The USA is racing to the bottom of the longevity scale while our pharmaceutical drug use is more than any other developed nation and increasing. At best, the Big Pharma Agenda isn’t working and at worst it’s fueling shorter life spans. Either way, the medical orthodoxy needs to stop using the “we’re living longer” excuse for why so many American’s are sick and dying. If that was true we’d be living to 120 year old by now as we’ve always been able to live into the 7th, 8th and 9th decade of life well before Big Pharma started saving us. Don't believe me? Go visit any historic cemetery in America and you find plenty of headstones that show people who regularly lived to be 80 or 90 dating back to the 1700’s and 1800’s.    

Are you still paying the high prices for high protein peanut butter? Make it at home in minutes literally.   So easy you can make it one-handed in minutes. 2 cups of roasted peanuts 1 to 1 1/2 Tbsp. of raw organic coconut oil 1 to 1 1/2 tsp of sea salt Blend in food processor till smooth but gritty Add flavored protein powder 2 to 4 scoops depending upon total protein per serving desired Blend until smooth Place in ball jar and refrigerate till firm Spread and eat! For this example I used Divine Nutrition’s Pound Cake flavored grass fed whey protein. You can use any flavored whey you choose. You can also include dried fruits like raisins. And spices like ginger or cinnamon powder. If you add 4 scoops of Divine Nutrition’s whey you'll end up with close to 100g of protein per jar you make. A jar will...

It drives me crazy when I watch people do cardio at the gym. We’ve all seen it. The guy or gal who ramps the  Model: Alex Leaf treadmill incline all the way up and then hangs on to the control interface or the side rails in order to stay on the treadmill. I’ve asked people over the years why they do this. I’ve gotten many answers. Most say “I’m burning more calories” referring to the calorie counter on the treadmill. One gal said “I’m toning my glutes” explaining that she read an article that walking or running up a hill works the glutes. One older gentlemen told me he was trying to improve his balance. In all of the above cases what evades these trainees is that these effects are only conferred if you’re actually working to walk up the inclined surface unassisted. Not holding on for dear life! Your glutes...

I recently saw a post on Face Book depicting a video of some very hard working muscular women. A particular comment caught my eye. The poster simply posted the word “gear”. This post angered me. I have to go back to 2008 in order to understand why. Back during the Anabolic Steroid Control Act hearings in front of congress, then Senator Joe Biden complained that he wanted to become a pro baseball player but was convinced that every athlete that outperformed him was using performance enhancing drugs. Even though he had no proof of this. He told congress that his inability to make it pro was directly tied to his unwillingness to use drugs. This assumption by then Senator Biden is a slap in the face to every hard working athlete in the world. To simply reduce his or her ability to make it pro to drug use and having nothing...

So here’s the plan. Train early and train fasted. Then have 75% to 80% of my food intake after my training over the course of a few hours. Taper intake into the evening focusing on getting the majority of my fat and some protein. Here’s my thinking. In the book Dove’s Diplomats and Diabetes - A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders by Dr. Milind Watve (book here – SHR interview here), the good doctor explains what can be the only evolutionary scientific mechanism that influences nutrient timing and the ensuing partitioning to fat or muscle. He illustrates that as hunter gathers our brains were influenced by the tasks of getting food in the first place. That influence programmed the body as to what it would use that nutrition for – creating fat or muscle mass. The act of going out into the dangerous unknown was possible because...

Regardless of your goals – weight loss, improved health, disease management, performance enhancement, and gaining muscle mass – nutrition is the cornerstone and quite possibly the most important factor. It’s for this reason that most who are serious about their goals make food preparation a priority. And those who fail to make food preparation a priority quite often never reach their intended goals. For most, food preparation is something we do several times a week. It can include cooking of your chosen foods, portioning, packaging and making these finished meals portable. Entire blocks of time are set aside to perform these tasks. I stumbled upon something recently that a friend of mine, Ravi Reddy, showed me that he does for his food prep. It’s actually elegantly simple. Ravi prepares all of his meals in one crockpot the night before and then brings this with him to work then next day. I’ve...

January 4, 2017 Shoulders I never trained shoulders exclusively since I’ve always believed that they got hit pretty well on back and chest training movements but have since rethought this. So now I have dedicated a specific training session to shoulders each week. I make it the end of my training week since it’s a fairly small muscle group and I’m already pretty spent by the end of the week. Giant sets for shoulders look like this… Seated shoulder press machine + upright dumbbell rows + front raise using 35 lb. plate + reverse pec deck. Yes you counted right. This Giant Set is comprised of 4 movement instead 3. What do you call a 4 movement Giant Set? Hhmmm.. Maybe a Super Giant Set? NOTES: The shoulder press machine I use places the weight “per hand” so the weight stack is per hand not spread across both hands. When doing upright...