SGT Peterson RSSWhile sitting in the hospital with one of my loved ones last week, I was introduced to something that made my mind go crazy: The idea that a person’s voice and touch, alone, could help relieve pain. In addition to that, it’s something that registered nurses do full time, and it’s encouraging to see. I [...]
#1 – For the fruit lovers Ingredients: – 2/3 cup unsweetened almond milk – 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt – 1 3/4 cup frozen berries – 1/2 frozen banana – 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder (I used 1/2 scoop in mine this morning because I eat a lot of protein throughout the day already) [...]
This post is inspired by a person that recently started working out with us at SGT Peterson’s. By no means is this the first or last person that will forget to listen to what we say about the intro workout. They then realize why we tell them to drink plenty of water beforehand, get plenty [...]
The reason for this article is simply for men and women to feel understood when it comes to their emotions and WHY people exercise. Emotions can drive people to react in ways that outsiders see as irrational. As much as men want to pretend they don’t make decisions that are emotional based, I know it’s [...]
The purpose of this article is to show the improvements of the New Army Physical Fitness Test by the Army Physical Fitness School. First we’ll go over the improvements in strength in respect to muscle length-tension relationships. It will also go over the improvements in dynamic agility. Let’s take a look at the difference between [...]
America is always reinventing itself. Let me paint a picture for you. When I get old I will sit on my porch after mowing my lawn in the summer and shake my fist at the teenagers racing up into the air of my suburban neighborhood with those “damn flying cars! These kids have no respect [...]
You’ve heard it said, ‘you need energy to burn energy’ and you might even know that you should eat something before a workout…or is that after a workout? That’s the problem… you’re not sure what to eat and when to eat it! In this post I’ve put together some guidelines that can help you make [...]
As a former high school football coach I would often see the other teams in our division doing what seemed like 60-90 minutes of warm-ups before the big game. If they overdue it during the game like this, can you even imagine how much they are over training on the practice field? What I have [...]
Each week we are faced with an onslaught of news information: a new potential war, a new disaster, a new definition of what is “good” and “bad” for us, a new way to prevent cancer, and on and on. The overload of information can leave some of us paralyzed, giving us a feeling of apathy [...]
This is one of our latest newsletters. Not getting our newsletter yet? Go here and sign up! Here in America we’ve all been trained to think everything should be easy. Need food? There’s a McDonald’s on every corner. Have an ice cream craving late at night? Walmart is always open and most likely within 15 [...]