Welcome to My Pain Cave

Daniel destroyed us this morning at boot camp.
It didn’t help that I pulled a rookie move and showed up to the workout without having any sort of snack beforehand. Usually it’s just half an apple or a handful of blueberries – it doesn’t seem like it should make that much difference, but it does.
I [...]

The QuickStart Guide to Eating: Better Nutrition in 217 words

Don’t have time to deal with all the crap I wrote in “The Super Basic Five Steps You Can Take to Begin to Eat Smarter“?
No problem.
I boiled it down into three handy-dandy guidelines to give anyone a jumpstart on improving their nutrition.

I Am the Legs.

I play competitive womens softball tournaments with the most talented team that I have ever been lucky enough to be a part of. Almost all of the women on my team are former All-Americans, some of them several times over. They have won national championships together, traveled across the country together, and spent [...]

How to Blast Fat Off Your Body in Record Time

Fitness can be about a lot of things. It can be about creating a feeling and experience of wellness and establishing healthy patterns and habits in your life. It can be about creating a strong body so that we are better prepared to weather the unpredictable ailments and challenges that may come [...]

The Perfect Protein Shake: Why Jay Robb is My New Personal Hero

(The true story of how I found my new favorite, totally killer protein powder.)
I drink protein shakes. Lots of them. I need them. I love them. In a five or six-meal-per-day nutrition plan, they’re essential for a quick and easy way to get a lot of high quality protein fast, without [...]

More Top Ten Foods! Wa Hooo!

I couldn’t help but post this.
A little while ago Tom Venuto posted a few top ten lists and they are excellent. Seeing as how my Top Ten Super Foods post was so popular, I figured I’d share his as well. They’re listed here but you should really, really, really go check out his [...]

Sleep Station: Ten Tips for Getting Better WinkEye

I’m big on sleep.
Earlier this year when I was still spinning marketing cogs for a software company in town, I went through a two and a half month period of really, really crappy sleep. We were preparing to launch a huge new product and the to-do list that was in front of us was [...]

How I Dropped my Body Fat by 5% in Just Two Weeks

Ok, ok. You were right.
Well, at least some of you were. When I threw down the gauntlet the week before last, some of you said, “Heidi, there is no way you have 24.5% body fat!”
I admit, I was a little bit skeptical too, but I figured it could very well be possible. [...]

Death Hike v.2007

It appears that I have bad luck with Oregon hiking. That, or I am just so gosh-darned Northwestern by nature that the world throws storms at me because she knows I can take it.
Saddle Mountain is rated “hard” and the sign at the bottom describes the path as “a constant climb”. Even still, [...]

Be Relentless. Just Relax. Run a 6:50.

I was bouncing around the house yesterday in between hammering out portions of a guidebook that I am ghost-writing for a client. I would go into super-fixated, song-on-repeat, headphone writing mode, finish a section, log the time on my invoice, and then pop out into the living area, nearly bursting at the seams.
“What’s up [...]