Recipe of the Week – Flourless Chocolate Zucchini Banana Muffins

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Flourless Chocolate Zucchini Banana Muffins

These quick and easy muffins make a great breakfast. Give them a try!

What You Need:

  • 2 soft medium bananas
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 cup melted coconut oil
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 6 tablespoons honey
  • 5 tablespoons black cocoa powder
  • 1 1/2 cup almond flour
  • 1 tablespoon coconut flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup grated zucchini (or 1/2 cup if you don’t want too much green stuff)
  • Chocolate chips for sprinkling on top

How To Make It:

  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Line a large muffin tin with parchmentpaper liners.
  3. In a mixer combine all of the ingredients (except the zucchini) until smooth. Then add in the grated zucchini and combine.
  4. Using an ice-cream scoop, fill the muffin tin with batter.
  5. Sprinkle chocolate chips over the top of the muffins.
  6. Bake on 350F for 65-70 minutes until a knife when inserted comes out clean.

Enjoy!

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Fit Tip #10

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Adding movement is the next progression of the Side Plank.

By adding a rowing movement we force the body to stabilize and resist the forward pull of the band and maintain spinal alignment through out the entire movement.

Give it a try once you can hold a perfect side plank for 30 seconds or more.

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Fit Tip #9

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Once the Plank is mastered the next progression is to add movement.

One way this can be done is with the Renegade Row.

A common mistake with the Renegade Row is using too heavy of dumbbells and focusing only on the rowing portion of the movement. But really the focus is on core stability through stabilizing the spine as we move or pull the arms up.

Check out the video below.

 

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Fit Tip #8

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When you are new to exercise a simple dynamic warm-up is enough to get the job done to prepare your body to lift.

But, as you get stronger you need a little more time spent on grooving the movement pattern for your big lifts (deadlifts, squats, presses).

This is accomplished through a technique known as Pre-Activation.

It works like this.

Do a stretch, warm-up up with some light variations of the movement, and then do an explosive variation of the movement.

For example is you are going to Deadlift you would do the following:

  • Standing Toe Touch Stretch – Kettlebell Deadlift
  • Broad Jump
  • Light Barbell Deadlift

For a Squat:

  • Squat Pry Stretch
  • Goblet Squat
  • Jump Squat
  • Light Barbell Squat

For a Press:

  • TRX Chest Stretch
  • Push Ups
  • MB Chest Throw
  • Light Barbell Press

Doing this before your big lifts turns on the nervous system and gets the body ready to lift heavy weight much better than just jumping in.

Give it a try!

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Fit Tip #7

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Improve your golf game with these three exercises!

In this week’s “Fit Tip” Josh Proch from Pittsburgh North Fitness discusses three exercises that every golfer should be doing to improve their game and move with more flexibility.

Check them out in the video below.

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