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Nutrition

How to Get Lean for Summer: A Realistic Nutrition Timeline & Strategy (No Crash Diets!)

As the days get longer and warmer, the phrase "summer ready" starts popping up everywhere. It often comes with images of drastic transformations achieved through extreme diets and punishing workout routines. While the desire to feel confident and energetic during the summer months is completely understandable, the typical crash-diet approach often does more harm than good.

Team WAG

May 14, 2025

1 min read

Weight Loss

The Best Way to Lower Body Fat Percentage

How to lower body fat percentage is a common question that often brings a sense of worry. We offer some answers related to your diet and exercise routines.

Ali Macy

Apr 2, 2024

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Weight Loss

Creative Ways to Increase Your NEAT When You Work From Home

In pursuing a healthier lifestyle, many individuals focus primarily on structured exercise routines to burn calories and improve fitness. While exercise is undoubtedly crucial for overall well-being, there is another aspect of calorie burning that often goes overlooked – Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT).

Miranda Stiehm

Feb 23, 2024

1 min read

Lifestyle and Mindset

5 Tips for Creating a Fall Schedule

Whether your kids are headed back to school, or you’re heading back to full-time or part-time classes, chances are that your fall will be busier than your summer. Organization and time management are essential as more items and events pile on your to-do list (and the same hours in a day to complete them).

Ali Macy

Jun 5, 2023

1 min read

Lifestyle and Mindset

Sleep, Fat Loss & the Importance of Creating a Bedtime Routine

Sleep plays a vital role in weight management, mood, energy, decision-making abilities, and overall happiness. Yet more often than not, it’s one of the first things we sacrifice in order to get through our to-do list.

Team WAG

Mar 3, 2023

1 min read

Lifestyle and Mindset

8 Eating Habits That Haunt Us From Childhood

While we are constantly creating new habits, many of the habits and routines that we currently have are ones that were created and have stuck with us since we were kids.

Nicole Kupfer

Jun 27, 2019

1 min read

Lifestyle and Mindset

Traveling? Add These Essentials to Your Suitcase

Traveling for business or pleasure doesn’t have to mean giving up all of your at-home routines. If maintaining your nutrition is a priority while traveling, then make space in your suitcase for some extra goodies to prepare snacks and meals!

Melanie Barnshaw

Nov 11, 2018

1 min read

Muscle Gain and Performance

Making the Most of Your Off-Season (Q&A 38)

On this week’s Q&A, Adee and Michael get real about the off-season, and the practices and new routines you can implement to set you up for success during your next training season.

Adee Cazayoux

Sep 20, 2018

1 min read

Lifestyle and Mindset

WAG Q&A With Michael, Episode 23: The Importance of Routines and Habits

Michael Cazayoux continues his Q&A Monday takeover this week with an inside look at the daily routine and habits he has formed to stay grounded and mindful.

Michael Cazayoux

Jun 11, 2018

1 min read

Lifestyle and Mindset

Holiday Guide to Giving Presence

It is only natural that we quickly find ourselves exhausted from trying to do so much for the people around us that we forget the most important thing: spending real, quality time with the people we love.

Team WAG

Dec 24, 2017

1 min read

Lifestyle and Mindset

Tips to Stay off Technology

In order to maximize your time with loved ones and create more uninterrupted time for yourself, below are number of strategies to help you decrease your technology usage and free up time in your day.

Melanie Barnshaw

Oct 13, 2017

1 min read

Lifestyle and Mindset

Personal Rules & Boundaries

When you’re trying to do it all — get to the gym, work a full time job, keep your nutrition on track and feel good about yourself every day — having a set of rules and boundaries to abide by helps.

Dani Sheriff

Sep 24, 2017

1 min read