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Competitive Breed offers services to ensure all athletes maximize their potential through progressive exercise programming while synchronizing their nutritional needs. Whether your goal is to build your best physique possible for competition or just improve your overall health and performance, Competitive Breed can provide the coaching you need.
Not every season needs to be focused on maximizing progress!
New parents - it’s much easier to maintain fitness than it is to progress (especially if you’ve attained a high(er) level of fitness)
When sleep is going to be chronically disrupted (ie. During the newborn phase), I believe a perspective shift that takes pressure off of yourself to “progress” during this phase is smart approach.
Many of us will end up reducing how many days per week we’re exercising (or at least reducing the duration of those sessions & total work performed).
So creating a plan that is more about maintaining fitness (or even minimizing regression) is likely something that is sustainable, and will prevent you from “falling off the wagon” or “letting yourself go”.
With my second born; over the last 6 Mo, I basically haven’t had ONE night of undisturbed sleep. (And I’m blessed, my wife does the overnight feeds, but I’m still “waking up” and this chronic sleep disruption doesn’t put any of us in a position to maximize recovery, performance, and body composition).
With that, I reduced my weekly resistance training frequency to 3x week … utilized full body sessions more often than not, and autoregulated workouts based on perceived readiness to perform (physically) and mental aspects simply related to motivation.
The thing is, this season is temporary.
Soon, you’ll turn the corner - sleep will drastically improve (ie when your kid is no longer waking for feeds overnight and/or starts to sleep in their own room, etc etc) and in that chapter, you’re physical energy and psychological desire to train will come back.
If you need help with this phase, or whatever phase you may currently be in - we’re here to help. Shoot me a message and we’ll take it from there 💪
04/10/2026
Sometimes the best thing to do is no-thing, at all. Be still.
One thing I love about yoga (and bodybuilding) is how the practice(s) give you the opportunity to sharpen your discipline, to be less reactive, and to connect with your mind, body, & spirit.
How can you remain calm in the chaos? There is so much to be gained from those moments, especially when it’s applied to other areas of our life.
For those of you who have (and perhaps regularly) done a modern yoga class, you have likely heard the instructor say something along the lines of “final savasana (co**se pose)” is the “most important” posture of the practice. At face value, many people are quick to dismiss or undervalue this sentiment from the teacher. How/why is it so important to just lay on your back, and do, “nothing”.
It’s an opportunity to observe how the last 60-90 minutes of work in a 102+° room has affected your internal environment, and how long it takes for your body to get back to baseline.
The work, the sequence of postures, the heat, the shortening and lengthening of agonist/antagonist muscle groups, impacted your physiology.
The significant increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate is palpable.
This palpability gets you to connect with your mind, body, & spirit on a deeper level than any other time of the day. This is so beneficial beyond the physical.
You can feel your body start to “recover” and shift from the sympathetically aroused state, to a parasympathetic, relaxed state. … (if you let it).
Too often, so many people are in a rush, they feel like they have something to tend to, and, they simply want the “discomfort” to END - they want to get out of the heat, get in the AC’d lobby, drink their fluids and go. BUT, this is the moment that truly is for you to reconcile how the work and practice has benefited (and changed) you.
This helps me remain calm in the chaos, even when it feels like my internal world/personal life is in flames, or when the stimulation & consumption of the external world news (literally being on fire) is a lot to process and navigate.
I hope you have practice(s) that serve you in this way. If not, all are welcome 🤗💪🧘♂️
Delicious Desserts Every Single Night Even When Dieting
Having delicious protein powders is the ultimate hack to making so many foods taste like an absolute treat, and satisfy your cravings.
Nearly every night (even when I’m dieting for competition) I’ll make myself a high protein Greek yogurt bowl or a ninja creami … the key is having a delicious protein powder. I love nearly all of whey + (isolate) but right now I’m hooked to their strawberry cheesecake flavor 🍓 🍰 and a couple months back I was on a red velvet cake kick 🎂 (they use a TrulyGrassFed ™️ whey, that is lactose free & of the highest quality 🤌)
When I’m in an offseason and have more calories to play with, these yogurt bowls or creami’s just have more toppings (e.g. granola, chocolate chips, brownie pieces, etc). But year round, the staple is always:
1-2 servings of greek yogurt (or FF skim milk if making a creami)
1 scoop of protein
0.5-1.5 serving of fruit 🍌🫐
This particular bowl gave me 8g Fat, 45g Carb, & 52g protein
It’s reallllly easy to scale up or scale down the total calories of these treats depending on your goals and how your allocating your calories and timing your nutrition throughout the day.
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Free shipping for new customers, a 100% back money guarantee, and code CB20 for extra savings and dbl rewards.
If you struggle to hit 1.2g - 1.6g protein per LB of FFM, protein supplements are an easy, cost effective way to increase your essential amino acid/protein consumption 💪
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