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André Ellison (Dre) is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Fitness Professional who coaches methods of healing, disease prevention, and wellness.
How does Group/Community help people Lose Weight and Burn Fat Faster?
Making a living with (other) people’s bodies.
Philosophers will continue to ask questions about the ways in which human minds and souls intertwine whether through thought or faith. What is clear to me is that all people share a fundamental foundation of the state of health and fitness. For most people, it isn’t until you get sick that you realize how much you value health.
In order to produce as a higher being than before, one must support the physiological aspect.
To truly value health is to commit to a better tomorrow
In my five year career in health / fitness around the Puget Sound, I’ve become acquaintance with many people who have struggled with health. Actually, there are a lot of people on the front lines of natural health who themselves have experienced pain or tragedy. They re-learned how to treat their bodies and re-emerged from their struggle to share meaningful stories and information with people going through something similar.
Health must have a preventative focus
At the same time, health must also require urgency. The most important act of health are those which nourish or empower the entire person. Holistic health has a focus on preventing disease of modern society. Every day is extremely important in the function of all human systems including the heart and mind.
Communities with shared health values succeed more often
You’ve heard the saying, “you are what you eat.”
Perhaps you should adopt a new one…, “you are who you spend your time around.”
The quickest way to reach your goals is to surround yourself with people who are experiencing the journey already. Health and fitness, they say is also like success, as in it is more about the journey than the destination.
I see these things as… A healthy constitution, a vessel which is rewarded by ongoing detoxification, a real human person with the thoughts and feelings of empowering their most important asset.
Burning fat is best done in the company of others burning fat
If your goal is to burn fat, aligning yourself with other people who share these values will have a profound positive effect on daily behavior. Yes we are influenced by others, so use it to your advantage.
Maybe you already are on the journey. Then, reader, I solute you. Continue to inspire the people in your life to make choices that benefit the foundation of their needs as a human. Yet, help those who want to be helped.
Finally, the benefits of group fitness summarized
- Accountability
- Fun
- Motivating
- Effective
- Positive social outlook
- Team aspect,
- Yet individually competitive
- What humans have known forever:
WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER
Technique for Novice Deadlifters
Deadlifts provide valuable training stimulus
They also go to show how strong you REALLY are.
That is because true strength requires muscles throughout the entire body to work at the most efficient joint angles. Technique is incredibly important for injury prevention and performance.
Deadlifts are for strength
Like any exercise, deadlift is a skill which requires the lifter to learn the deadlift movement pattern.
Deadlift Fundamentals
For the deadlift, you should take note of these
1. Full body tension
2. Legs and hip drive
3. Squeeze the butt aggressively
4. Bar is as close to the body as possible during the entire lift
Deadlift Critique
Setup
Need to correct – Leaning forward
1. Chest Up
2. Hips back
3. Drive through the heels
Sit back into the rep, focus on using glutes as the power player.
Mid-Range
Need to correct – Hips rise too fast
1.Focus on Leg Drive
2. Push heels into the ground
3. Spread the floor with your feet
Lockout
Need to correct- Stopping short
1. Pull the bar towards the body
2. Squeeze glutes forcefully
Lowering
Need to correct – Too much lower back on way down
1. Keep the chest up
2. Let the hips drop as soon as bar passes the knees
How to Improve your Deadlift
Main ways to improve the Deadlift
- Practice the deadlift (train the deadlift)
- Get stronger in all key areas (upper back, lower back, core, glutes, hamstrings, quads)
- Practice the deadlift!!!
More reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhYspMFUmY
More reference 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4qRntuXBSc
Keep at it y’all. Cuz you realize that when you’re deadlift technique is good, you WILL have a strong, strong, strong back and legs. Your spine will be protected by slabs of muscle and you will feel the strength in all the other areas of your life!!
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Is Chronic Inflammation holding you back?
Chronic Inflammation is the pre-cursor to disease and insult to the organ system
To experience chronic inflammation, one need only go so far to consume the SAD (Standard American Diet) on a regular basis. Fast food restaurants come to mind. Soda is quite possibly the most anti-fat loss thing people consume regularly. Not only does soda erode oral health, it also causes the bones to leech minerals as an attempt to balance the pH of the system. The acidity mixed with sugar also put stress on the pancreas and liver.
To make things even worse, the quick delivery of all that sugar into the gut tends to feed the harmful, opportunistic bacteria. Then you have serious gut dysbiosis (microbial imbalance) and more and more research has shown that obese people share similar gut bacteria.
It’s about the organs, dummy.
Nah, you’re not weak of mind. You understand that eating healthy is of vital importance to making gains in fitness.
This guy ate veggies today.
You can’t get rid of your past
The more years one has eaten poorly and not taken care of themselves, the more effort it will require to re-balance the body. Your lifestyle must change, is changing, or has changed in order to reach a healthier state — a fitter body. Learn from mistakes and be humble because food has power over all of us.
Antioxidants: Healing Power on Daily Basis
Wow, to think that we can consume natural foods and promote the wellness from within our own vessel. I can’t go a day without eating at least something of color. The greatest nutrient density and antioxidant power will make itself known through resilience and hues of the rainbow.
Healthy picnic at the park
Promote Healthy Inflammation Regularly with Nutrition
We need a certain amount of inflammation in the right areas at the right times, balanced anywhere around the body. To do that, we have to eat healthy foods — ideally the healthiest foods on the planet.
There is access to some of the world’s healthiest foods in nearly every grocery store in America. It’s usually fresh. It may have distinct colors. It could be pungent, bitter, sweet, sour, or rich and delectable. Natural markets and delis are literally goldmines for the latest new, health trends combined with traditional healing knowledge from all parts of the world (often in the form of herbal extracts or educational products).
Extremely high nutrient density found in this fresh Carrot/Beet/Ginger/Parsley juice and Wheatgrass shot.
The truth is that we should aim to have a healthy relationship with food — being natural food. This is how you can get a fit body, beyond discussion of calories and macronutrients. Beyond basic calculations. Nothing can make up for the pure antioxidant power of healthy natural food. Eat well my friends.
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