76 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health... In addition to throwing off the body’s homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar’s metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications. 1. Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease. 2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body:...

Protein bars... Ingredients 1 cup barley flakes or oats Half a cup pumpkin seeds (pepitas) Half a cup slithered or raw almonds chopped Half a cup coconut Half a cup sesame seeds 1 cup ground almonds Half a cup dried apricots or apples 1 tablespoon olive oil 3 tablespoons protein powder (vanilla) Half a cup of tahini 2 egg whites (optional) Half a cup of honey (or rice or 100 % maple syrup) Half a cup of apple puree Directions Add honey...

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Functional Fitness Training... LaVanda Elite holds Functional Fitness Strength Training courses most nights of the week. Functional strength training should be thought of in terms of a movement continuum. As humans, we perform a wide range of movement activities, such as walking, jogging, running, sprinting, jumping, lifting, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting, turning, standing, starting, stopping, climbing and lunging. All of these activities involve...

What to Expect…... Do you feel like you are not fulfilling your true potential when working out? You will find it hard to keep fit, work out and gain strength if you’ve got poor posture and/or spinal misalignments. It causes physical trauma to your body which can slow down your progress. Don’t despair! We recommend you get your spine checked out at a Chiropractors. The results may be drastic… it can speed up your results in your...

Muscle Elasticity... What is muscle elasticity? Well, if you were to cut out a muscle, put it on the table and stretch it, you would see it shrink back a bit. In plain physics, it’s a natural ability of some things to recover the original form upon the removal of the force initially applied. However, a human and his body is not all physics, it’s physics, chemistry, biology, psychology and all that good stuff, and last time you...

What is periodization?... In basic English, periodization is simply the organization and planning of training. In sport, this planning is usually based upon achieving maximum physical abilities (strength, speed, power, etc..) for a given competition or period of competitions. In bodybuilding, the training might be organized around a specific bodybuilding contest. Most bodybuilders actually plan or instinctively “periodize” their training...

Training and rest... It is a well-known fact that most people need about 7-9 hours of sleep every night to recuperate from stress of daily activities. And it is a similar situation in sports - people participating must always remember to get adequate amount of rest between training sessions. There are those of us that couldn’t handle more than a couple of days of exercising or running a week. Then there are those few that have the...

How to become a successful trainer?... How to Assist Trainers in Becoming Self Generating Some specific methods that trainers can use in order to become self generating include: Referral systems – All trainers should have a referral system in place that works best for that individual Follow-up calls – All leads need to be continually tracked. Remember the 2, 2, 2 principal Group exercise – Become an instructor, or get to know some...

Vasily Ginko Kettle Bell Course Gallery... Lavanda Elite brought the World Champion in Kettle Bell lifting, Vasily Ginko, to Australia for the Level 1 and Level 2 International Kettlebell Sports Association certification course, 2009. Vasily didn’t stop all day - demonstrations of new lifts, coordination drills and his amazing power juggling prove why this guy is ranked number 1 in the world. Check out the pictures taken on the day. To view an image full...