Win some beef from Massa Natural Meats!!

How would you like to win 10 pounds of ground beef from Massa Natural Meats? Check out their latest blog post here for details. It’s really quite simple so do it and cross your fingers in hope that you are the lucky winner! For more information on Massa Natural Meats click here to read a blog post I did last year and be sure to check out this post from Wendy Massa (owner) on The skinny on...
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Test/Retest

As promised we are holding a second test/retest day for those interested in testing into our level 1 class.  This is mandatory for ANYONE that wants to participate in level 1 classes.  After this date, if you have not passed the test then you cannot attend Level 1 Classes until you do pass.  If you tested last Saturday and didn’t pass, you can come in on this day and retest the elements...
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Buying Local, Buying Organic

The Thursday night farmers market is back! Now between the Thursday night and Saturday morning markets your quest to shop local and organic just got a whole lot easier. Living in Chico we are spoiled with our abundant access to locally grown produce and grass fed/pasture raised animals all available at our farmers markets. If you can’t make it to the market here is the list of the dirty...
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Gower Power

As most of you have heard at this point, a dear member of our Norcal Family was in a horrible accident last week.  Shane Gower broke his neck at wrestling practice on Thursday afternoon (3/28).  He was taken to Enloe where he had an amazing team working on/with him and by Friday evening he was in recovery after a successful surgery.  Shawn (brother), Chrissy  (sister-in-law) and Jessi...
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How Important is Sleep?

I remember when I first started out as a trainer.  22 years old, directly out of college and ready to help everyone that walked in the door of the gym.  I took clients on at ridiculous hours of the day (or night).  I remember starting training at 4:30am and working straight through until 8pm (with a one hour break to shove some food in my mouth and often times steal a 15 or 20 min catnap).  I...
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Paleo Dinner

This week I stumbled across two new recipes that I had to share. Paleo butternut squash lasagna and a lemon caper salad dressing. I enjoyed this combo for dinner one night and ate the leftover lasagna with sunny side up eggs for breakfast. I highly recommend that you give these recipes a try! Butternut Squash Lasagna  Lemon Caper Salad Dressing  I tossed the salad dressing with red leaf...
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