Nutrition – Part 2

Depending on what you eat and how fast your food is digested, your pre-workout meal should be consumed around an hour before your strength training workout. What type of food and nutrients you consume directly affects your ability to push yourself to your maximum potential during your time in the gym. You may be able [...]

Starting a successful routine – “Change”

Often change is looked at as a negative. As humans, most of us are creatures of habit and we thrive on routine. Functioning in a very fast paced society, it’s often required for us to establish a routine in order to achieve success in all aspects of life. Working as a personal training over the [...]

Introduction

Hello everybody! I’d like to introduce myself as a proud representative and sponsored athlete for Axis Labs. My name is Melissa Deal — I am a Personal Trainer/Nutritionist, Figure Competitor, and Fitness Model from San Diego and I will be a new face behind the blog. Over the past five years I have been working [...]

Warm Up/Stretching

I know I usually go on my rants about what “most people don’t do.” However, I feel this topic is just as important as any of my other rants. Many people get hurt while lifting in the gym or at home. Many get hurt in professional sports while running or jogging. The leading cause for [...]

Blood Sugar Matters – Article 3 – Cancer

If the last 2 articles were not enough to convince you that blood sugar does matter and is very important, then I hope this one hits you where it hurts. Blood sugar has been linked to the cause of a variety of different cancers. High insulin levels promote and environment that makes it much easier [...]

Blood Sugar Matters – Article 2 – Workout

A very important concept to keep in mind is where you want your blood sugar to be during your workout. This is very much overlooked and is as important as anything else when it comes to proper nutrition and getting the most out of your workout routine. Many people have the perception that you should [...]