Rules To Live By

“Nutrition can make a good athlete great, or a great athlete good.” Mark Verstegen, Founder and President of EXOS   Eat BREAKFAST everyday! COME BACK TO EARTH!!! Try to choose the least processed forms of food. Animal protein, healthy fats, vegetables, minimal nuts, seeds, fruit and whole grains. EAT SMALLER PORTIONS MORE OFTEN spread evenly […]

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Force Multiplier: Life Performance Outline

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” Colin Powell   Force Multiplier: A force multiplier refers to a factor that dramatically increases, hence “multiplies”, the effectiveness of a system. Independence and sustainability is UpRight Movement’s chief underlying goal for all the people it serves. We help you feel, move, and perform better in life. To support […]

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Declaration of Health and Fitness

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson   Have a “WHY” that inspires you to be your best as well as to give to others. Practice […]

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Your Nutritional Fingerprint: Metabolic Typing

One man’s meat is another man’s poison.   What is Metabolic® Typing? Metabolic® Typing is a system for identifying your optimal starting point for fine-tuning your macronutrient (animal to plant food) ratios. Today, this is not so easily done because in the past 1,000 years there has been an increase in racial mixing as we’ve […]

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The One You Feed

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, doubt, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is […]

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The Pre-Flight Checklist: Monitoring Fatigue

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” Albert Einstein   Stress was originally coined by Hans Selye in 1956, describing the general adaptation syndrome where the initial response, the alarm stage, is negative, with the physiological state of the organism decreasing following the imposition of stress shown […]

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