Healthy Eating

A worthy salad for your Thanksgiving table? Yes! A time honored Thanksgiving salad doesn’t get any better than this, folks! It’s a Thanksgiving salad worthy of any CrossFit Athlete’s Arena’s member’s table and it looks festively tasty! A salad makes a perfect starter or side dish to accompany all the heavier dishes of a Thanksgiving feast, and…

If you think you are getting a light, healthy bowl of greens when you are eating a restaurant salad you may want to take a closer look. While many restaurants offer somewhat healthy options (Chili’s Grilled Chicken Salad has 38 grams of protein, but skip the cheese and ask for the dressing on the side) many…

Sesame, chia, pumpkin and sunflower seeds are all packed full of nutritional goodness! From essential minerals and nutrients such as manganese, zinc, folate, calcium and vitamin B to promoting healthy digestion and bone health, these mighty seeds are must in your diet! Sunflower and pumpkin seeds make a great snack on their own, while chia and sesame seeds make a…

While we all will miss the summer days spent on Lake Murray, we look forward to cooler weather, fall foliage and, of course, FOOTBALL and TAILGATING! As we all know, tailgating is a lifestyle and an event that takes some planning before the BigGame.  Football, friends and food define tailgating and whether you are a Gamecock fan, Clemson fan, or an…

A couple of weeks ago I got into a discussion with some fitness professionals about nutrition. Their attempt was to expose some fallacies about what is healthy and what isn’t in terms of what is safe consumption of the foods that taste Ohhh so good but are considered Oh so bad. These foods truly are…