RKC and IBD: 31 Days to RKC

The Backstory July 26, 2012 I have IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) – ulcerative colitis to be exact. I also have a date for the RKC (Russian Kettlebell Challenge) test in exactly 31 days. When I was diagnosed with IBD 4 years ago I had no idea what it was – I had never […]

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From Great to Good…

From great to good?! … Isn’t that backwards? Isn’t that the opposite of what we are working for? Well, yes. Most of the time we are working on moving from good towards great. School, career, fitness are all areas of life best designed to be continually improved upon. But what happens […]

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How My IBD Can Make You Healthier

Why do we eat food? Food tastes really good – warm chocolate chip cookies… but only once a year right 🙂 Food provides nutrients and energy – broccoli, blueberries, wild salmon Food helps us achieve our fitness and physique goals- protein drinks But what do you do when food, even […]

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Triathlete.com Interview

Back in September 2011 I completed my first sprint triathlon – the TriRock San Diego. I had the privelege of being interviewed by Triathlete.com to discuss my journey from my diagnosis to a triathlon. At the time I was three years removed from my ulcerative colitis diagnosis. Prior to race day I began a four […]

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Strengthen Your Gut

We seem to be constantly focused on how we look. We spend huge amounts of money on products and treatments that promise to make us look better. From expensive hair salons to designer clothes we seem to believe that the better we look on the outside the better we (hopefully) […]

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Motion is Life

“Motion is life”…wise words, no coincidence that they were said by Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine. In my book, The IBD Fitness Solution, I quote Hippocrates regarding my outlook on warming up. We simply need to move. We need to move before we workout in the gym, before we run, […]

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Nutrition Abundance

“There is an ancient Vedic story about a young man who went in search of the secret of abundance. For many months he traveled through the countryside until one day deep in the forest he met a spiritual master and asked him if he knew the key to having unlimited […]

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