Chrystal’s Journal – Coach Chrystal's Eat Move Live

Train Your Brain To See The Light

A wise woman once said, “no one gets out of life for free.” Despite how wonderful and joyous life can be, every one of us will experience betrayal, pain and loss in one capacity or another.

Someday the man who walked you up the aisle at your dream wedding is going to die. Someday your best friend in the world will do something you don’t like. And someday you may experience a loss that feels unbearable.

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” –Robert Anthony

What separates truly happy people from the “misery loves company” category is taking responsibility for everything that occurs in their lives and pushing hard to live with positivity despite the heartbreaks, failures and stumbles.

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I hate exercise…

I don’t like getting up and going to the gym every day. In fact, I fucking hate it most of the time. There’s nothing fun about waking up before the sun rises and getting out of my warm comfy bed, where my husband is always holding on to me, trying to prolong that one last moment of cuddling before I start my day. I don’t like changing into my sports gear, and braving the often wet, cold morning weather as I head to my car. I dislike the how exhausting the first few pulls on a rower feel, Read more “I hate exercise…” →

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Chrystal’s Picks

I am forever being asked about my favourites. What’s my favourite protein powder? What exercise equipment do I recommend? Etc. Etc. I decided I might as well make a page of it, you know – for easy reference. I present to you my picks.

On this page, I’ll highlight the things that I use and/or have tried that I am forever recommending to people because they are that good. Enjoy!

Since I’m doing this, I figured I might as well try and make some money out of it. So note: This page contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something I may earn a commission. Thank you!

Protein Powder

These are the Whey protein powders I like (the flavoured ones mix awesome with Greek yogurt!):

These are the Casein protein powders I like:

Bathroom Scale

Health / Fitness Equipment

Miscellaneous

I’m also always referring people to:

The Insight Timer App and more specifically this Body Scan Recording.

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C19: My Self-Care During Isolation

A week or so back someone reached out to me to see how I was doing. I replied that honestly, I was doing alright. By this time, I’d been isolating for more than a few weeks. I was over the initial shock and wallow. I realized by then that I couldn’t and probably shouldn’t continue to eat and drink the universal blow we’re all currently facing, or the now simmering existential dread I knew, away. In fact, those behaviors were probably adding to my anxiety. Read more “C19: My Self-Care During Isolation” →

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Precision Nutrition’s (PN): 5-Minute Actions

Covid-19 has given me a lot of freed up time and I’ve chosen I’m going to use it well. I registered and began Precision Nutrition’s (PN) Level 1 Coaching course yesterday. This is pretty exciting as it is probably the most reputable nutrition course out there even with recognition from CrossFit HQ. I’m convinced this course will build on the nutritional foundation that I already have and it will help make a better coach. Coaching is about way more than just the nutrition science and I want to be a really good coach, not just one with all the answers.
Read more “Precision Nutrition’s (PN): 5-Minute Actions” →

Body Science

A Good Night’s Sleep

I’ve already talked a bit about a good nights sleep and why it’s so important in terms of nutrition, weight gain and obesity. What I didn’t emphasize is how research proves that getting adequate amounts of natural sleep each night actually makes you live longer. So many of us have a hard time sleeping that over the counter sleep medications fly off the shelves and many of us are familiar with prescription sleeping pills too. Medical or drug induced sleep, if and when the medications actually work, does not offer the same quality of sleep nor the same life extending benefits as natural sleep. Sleep aids, just about all sleep aids, whether prescription, natural or over the counter, are sedatives. Read more “A Good Night’s Sleep” →

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I’m not lucky, I just want it more…

As if it were yesterday I remember a particular evening from my past life before massage therapy and fitness, when I was a desk worker. On this evening I was working in a call center, seated at a large desk that was separated so that it had four workstations of which only one sat empty. To my right sat my friend and colleague who happened to be a beautiful young woman of petite stature. Across the table from her sat another, much larger woman. At some point in the evening the conversation turned to a discussion about food and bodies. The larger woman said to the smaller woman, “You are so lucky to have the body you do.” Read more “I’m not lucky, I just want it more…” →

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The Vision

There’s no place to start like the beginning. So here it is. Increasingly, over the past few months (if not years) I’ve been visualizing, planning, and hoping to build to healthcare center that focuses on more than just the manual therapy services that I have offered out of my clinic Aspect Health. I want to focus on educating people to help themselves because I firmly believe that you can do far better for you, than I or any other practitioner can do to you. Read more “The Vision” →

Category: Chrystal’s Journal

Train Your Brain To See The Light

I hate exercise…

I hate exercise…

Chrystal’s Picks

Protein Powder

Bathroom Scale

Health / Fitness Equipment

Miscellaneous

C19: My Self-Care During Isolation

Precision Nutrition’s (PN): 5-Minute Actions

A Good Night’s Sleep

I’m not lucky, I just want it more…

The Vision

What are you waiting for?