CFSC at the Perform Better Summits

Just wanted to let everyone know that we’ll be doing our Certified Functional Strength Coach Certification on the Thursday before each Perform Better Summit.

You can get the Summit dates here

Register early as these will fill fast. There will only be 60 spots at each seminar and we won’t be able to add a second day.

PS- You must be registered for the Perform Better Summit to register for the CFSC.

To register go to www.certifiedfsc.com

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10% of CFSC for BodyByBoyle Online Members

For the month of March we are giving BodyByBoyle Online members 10% off of registration for Certified Functional Strength Coach Certifications.

We only have about 6 spots left for

March 28 – Perform Better Functional Training Institute (Warwick, RI) [6 Spots Left]

May 16 – Park Center Health and Fitness (Chicago, IL) [4 Spots Left]

You can sign up for these events at our website: http://Certifiedfsc.com and use the code at checkout.

the 10% Promo Code is:

BBBONLINE

If you have any questions you can send them to support@certifiedfsc.com

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Is the Food Industry Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook?

mboyle1959:

This is a great article that will really make you question whether you can believe anything the food industry writes.

Originally posted on Michael Boyle's Strengthcoach.com Blog:

Recently I received an article that was as disturbing as any I have read. The title is The Perils of Ignoring History: Big Tobacco Played Dirty and Millions Died. How Similar Is Big Food?  The really scary part is that the authors, Kelly Brownell and Kenneth Warner, are not two easily dismissed fringe nutritionists but rather work at a couple of places you may have heard of, Yale University and University of Michigan. The authors have studied the actions of the tobacco industry beginning in the fifties and have come away with some frightening parallels.

The findings of the paper are, as I said, disturbing;

“The tobacco industry had a playbook, a script, that emphasized personal responsibility, paying scientists who delivered research that instilled doubt, criticizing the “junk” science that found harms associated with smoking, making self-regulatory pledges, lobbying with massive resources to stifle government action, introducing “safer” products, and simultaneously manipulating…

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Become a Better Player by Not Playing!

Confusing headline? I hope it makes you read this.

Athletes Are Made In the Off-Season

If your child is a hockey player from 6-15 PLEASE don’t sign them up for spring and summer leagues! The only people who need spring and summer leagues are rink operators and league operators. ALL THE EVIDENCE SAYS NO.

Athletes Are Made In the Off_Season

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Want To Read A Scary ( and informative) Article?

This article from the Organic Consumers Association has some really interesting and informative stuff that is also a bit scary. Bottom line is that it’s really hard to eat well. You need to keep reading labels and reading articles like this.

Why Does the Dairy Industry Oppose GMO Labels?

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Take 5 Intervals and Call Me in The AM?

Fitness professionals may be the best medical practitioners in the world. We actually do something to deal with the underlying disease as opposed to treat the symptoms. Doctors have been reduced to simply giving us something that masks our symptoms. A friend once hypothetically compared doctors to mechanics. Imagine bringing your car in for service because the “check engine” light was on and getting handed some duct tape. The mechanic looks you straight in the eye and says “put a piece over the light, you won’t see it anymore”. You’d probably laugh and never go back to that mechanic, right?

Why don’t we laugh when the doctor gives us a statin, or blood pressure medication, or Metformin? Does anyone think that statins actually do anything to deal with why your cholesterol is high? If you do, you’re crazy. They just change the test results. The reason you have high cholesterol is still there? ( PS- lets not even get into the whole cholesterol debate, just think symptom and treatment)

High blood pressure? Take this. It will lower your blood pressure. Again, the drug will change the test result so that it appears more favorable. Does the drug deal with why you have high blood pressure? No, the drug just makes you “ignore the light” until something more serious happens.

To stay with our mechanic analogy, you now back a few weeks later and say “my oil light is on now too”. The mechanic says “no problem, have another piece of tape”. You just keep driving until the car stops working, with all these pieces of tape covering your warning lights. What’s the life analogy for that scenario? Not a pretty picture is it?

I’d love it if someday you went to the doctor to complain and they said. “Here’s a prescription for exercise, take 5 intervals three times a week for six weeks and come back. And also, lose a pound per week while you’re at it. If you come back and you’re not down six pounds and have an attendance note from your trainer I’m going to cancel your health insurance”. Now that would be practicing medicine.

We can dream can’t we?

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