As some of you might know, on July 1st AGOGA beat the business odds and turned one year old! Considering the first year is the riskiest time for any business, the AGOGA team thought we’d celebrate by finally asking our fave boss and the woman behind our brand all of the questions we want answered when it comes to taking the plunge and starting your own business.
Food, glorious food! Processed meats, yellow cheese, chocolate, chips, cakes, cookies, chocolate, bread, cereals, tinned foods, frozen meals, chocolate, fat free dairy, protein bars, energy drinks, alcohol, chocolate… this list could go forever! Walking into any grocery store these days you could be forgiven for thinking that food grew in plastic packets and came out brighter than your Saturday night underpants…
For those of you who aren’t quite up to scaling park fences and back flipping from tree branches just yet, I thought I’d take you through some basic primal functional moves you can do at home (or on holidays!) with very little or no equipment. If you’re not training regularly at AGOGA chances are these moves will be a little challenging but they are fantastic for working on all those supporting muscles traditional training forgets about. This will improve your athletic performance and will also tighten up your whole body – just in time for summer…
Guest Post by Cassie Mendoza-Jones – naturopath, nutritionist and herbalist. Our appetite can fluctuate throughout the day and with this, our blood sugar levels too. So, I’m going to give you some of my fave afternoon snack ideas. Some people crave sugar right after a meal (usually lunch and/or dinner) and some people are fine until about 3-4pm when they reach for a double-shot latte, a chai latte (always get the loose-leaf tea please, not the powdered latte muck!) or a Mars Bars. Not a Mars person? Ok a Twix then? Nooo!!! Eat these delicious options instead 🙂 your hormones/mood/energy/concentration can thank me later…
Guest Post by Cassie Mendoza-Jones – naturopath, nutritionist, herbalist.
When it comes to cooking with oils, things can get very confusing! All fats and oils have their own ‘smoke point’ – the temperature at which the oil or fat will begin to break down, deteriorate and become rancid. This can have health implications as when fats and oils break down they can release free radicals which cause stress and damage on a cellular level.
Protein Shakes. For me, these words used to conjur up images of big, beefy men in footy shorts and nipple revealing singlets, cruising around the scarily sized weight stack at the gym and sipping from weird plastic bottles. Not intimidating at all… right?
Guest Post by Cassie Mendoza-Jones – naturopath, nutritionist and herbalist.
Good digestive health is at the core of naturopathic practice. All too often I see patients in my clinic suffering from bloating and digestive issues. It can be uncomfortable, painful and distracting. You don’t have to suffer through it! There are many reasons why you may get bloated; I have picked five that I feel are very common.
If there’s one thing that’s super important as you start to ramp up your training – whether it’s endurance, weight loss, pace, or strength you have your sights set on – it’s getting your nutrition right.
And while it’s all very well getting super technical by asking questions like, “what should I eat as I start to train for endurance events”, or “what foods are best to eat post-training to help me lose weight/gain muscle”, or even “what should I eat the morning of a big event or major training session”, it’s important to get a few basics right first! Yep, we’re talking about good ol’ fashioned healthy eating.