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What To Eat Before A CrossFit Competition - The Swole Kitchen

What To Eat Before A CrossFit Competition

You’re already going to be nervous enough for competition day and the last thing you need to do is forget to eat, let alone try to eat, and not know what to eat before a CrossFit Competition. You need fuel and glycogen for your muscles and for your body to pro...

What Is Lactose Intolerance And How To Tell If You Have One by The Swole Kitchen

What Is Lactose Intolerance And Can You Self-Diagnose?

When our bodies don’t produce enough of the right enzymes to break down a food we can develop a sensitivity or a full blown intolerance to a food, food ingredient, or an entire food group. While inconvenient, then chances of you feeling better by recognizing these sensitivities and/...

How Many Fat Grams Should I Eat A Day? - The Swole Kitchen

How Many Fat Grams Should I Eat A Day

Fat often gets a bad rap in the diet world for being bad for you. While you can manipulate your body composition and greatly improve your health with dietary fat, it is often confusing when we think to ourselves, ‘how many fat grams should I eat a day’? This is where our nutrition s...

Consistency Is More Important Than Perfection

Consistency Is More Important Than Perfection

When you’re on a nutrition improvement journey, the pressure and expectations we put on ourselves can often make it feel like there is no room for error. How could there be? You’re working for something, you’re changing, you’re prioritizing new things and often paying for new things,...

How To Make Salad Taste Good - The Swole Kitchen

How To Make Salad Taste Good

Prepared salads can often be a waste of money. While you might pay for convenience, you could just as easily make a salad at home while saving a few bucks along the way. The secret of how to make salad taste good? That comes down to the ingredients you put in it, and trust us, it ta...

Why Are Strawberries Good For You

Why Are Strawberries Good For You

Growing up in Northern California, where strawberry fields are just about everywhere, the sweet, juicy, vibrant little fruit was available all through the warmer months. Varying in size and taste, while I knew I loved these little red strawberry morsels, yet I always w...
Why You're Not Losing Weight With Diet And Exercise

Why You're Not Losing Weight With Diet And Exercise

Weight loss can be hard! It can also be extremely frustrating when you’re not losing weight with diet AND exercise. Combining the two is a great start, but we’ve lined out some common mistakes that we see often to help you get through the weight loss plateau.