Q. What do you consider the most beneficial things you can do for overall well being:
A. Diet, exercise, and stress management. Eat high energy food filled with lots of protein. Exercise to keep your endorphins (feel good hormones) rolling and provide a sense of stability and confidence. Always try to find something positive in every negative situation to help prevent the aging of the body because of stress.
Q. Do you Consider yourself healthy?
A. Yes. I try and support my everyday quality of life with mostly "clean" living although I am human like everyone else and like to live a little. A little bit of everything is good. Its all about balance.
Q. What do you do for a living and what do you do to live?
A. I help people find answers and ways to produce a better quality of life for themselves and the people they come in contact with.
Q. What supplements do you take?
A. It depends on the time of year and what kind of training I am doing. But overall, digestive enzymes, probiotics, good fats ( fish oil ), and Rhodiola which is an adaptagen herbal that helps to support physical and emotional stress response along with increasing mental and physical acuity and endurance. During heavy training I use protein powder and a nitric oxide supplement.
Q. What is your favorite healthy and unhealthy meals and why?
A. I tend to have a similar diet throughout most of the year which entertains a lot of protein skillet meals containing eggs, turkey or chicken, organic spinach, red pepper, green pepper, feta, goat cheese, or hot pepper cheese, basil, cayenne pepper, salt n pepper. I eat this meal because it contains lots of good healthy protein and greens along with tons of fantastic flavor and can be made within minutes. If I was to eat something unhealthy I would say its having a Culvers Double Burger with onion rings and a strawberry banana shake. Its full of fat, sugar, and lots of calories but its worth it once or twice a week as a pre load for a heavy workout the next morning.
Q. How do you exercise and what is your favorite kind?
A. In the summer its about being at the beach and playing 2 man beach volleyball competitively. Whether its doing drills in the sand or playing in a big tournament on the weekend, its provides great cross training with the best strength coach in Grand Rapids Craig Baker once a week with weights, sand bags, and gymnastic rings. Its a maintenance schedule to prevent over training. During the winter I tend to get really focused in the strength training department and Craig tailors my workouts for 2 heavy sessions a week which has yielded tremendous results in loss of body fat, increase in lean muscle, and prevention of injuries. No matter what you do for activities getting in a gym and pushing some weight is the only way to go year around as a healthy lifestyle.
Q. What part of working with Warren do you find most rewarding?
A. The reward is in meeting a lot of different people and sharing information that may help them in whatever situation they are in.
Q. What is your background in nutrition?
A. I started in the health business during college and continued on for the last 15 years learning from holistic practitioners, chiropractors, chemists, scientists, dietitians, strength coaches, personal trainers, doctors, and so on. I've been very lucky to work with all of these people and more.
Q. How long have you been working with Warren Nutrition?
A. For about 10 years.
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