Tell me a little something about yourself.
My name is Travis Petelle. I am a long time nutritionist and personal trainer. Exercising and living a healthy long life has always been a hobby of mine ever since I was a kid. I graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Nutritional Sciences as well as another degree in Biomedical Sciences. I planned on being a dentist early on in my education but soon realized I wasn’t interested in years more of school in things I wasn’t interested in.
Since that point, I have focused on learning everything I can about fitness and nutrition. Now I live in Nashville Tennessee.
Why do you have this blog?
I believe the more people that know how to take care of their health the better. I have a passion for fitness and nutrition, and I like to share that passion with people who want to learn. I believe in taking responsibility for everything that happens or has happened in your life. It’s up to you to live a healthy life and take care of yourself. I started this blog to help as many people as I can along the way.
What do you like to do for fun?
I am a very active person. Since I’m living in Nashville, I like to hit the hiking trails in the mountains. I also enjoy mountain biking and rock climbing. When the seasons are right, I love to surf and snowboard. I also love to play guitar and cook. I try and get at least one of these things in a day along with my work out.
What is Go Healthy Fitness about?
Well I created Go Healthy Fitness to bring fitness, nutrition, and health news to the world. You will be able to find recipes, workouts, exercise videos, free reports, ebooks, and dvds at Go Healthy Fitness. Any suggestions of what you guys want are welcomed. Just let us know here.
What’s your philosophy on health?
I believe in regular exercise along with a healthy diet to be best practice for nearly all fitness and health issues. A diet high quality fats, protein, and low glycemic carbohydrates will produce the best results. Everyone has to learn their body and how it reacts to certain routines.
I teach people how to recognize what their body gets best results with. A healthy lifestyle is not a difficult thing. It just takes sometime.
Why should I listen to you?
Well, I don’t have much a reason for you too. I believe everyone should do their research on all exercise and nutrition advice they receive. There are too many websites out there that have false information which will lead you to the wrong results. I won’t lead you in the wrong direction but don’t forget to assess everything you come across when it comes to your health.
What’s your favorite exercise?
I was very big into power lifting through college and got to be extremely strong with the Deadlift. Every since that time I have loved the deadlift more than anything. Just lifting so much weight is a great feeling. I really love plyometric workouts as well though.
What’s your favorite cheat food?
I love ice cream with a passion, haha. It’s delicious and I enjoy a bowl quite often, even on my cleanest diets. Don’t even think you have to give up foods you love to be healthy.
What to do next?
If you’re interested in simplifying your lifestyle and seizing control of your health, take a look further into Go Healthy Fitness.
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Check your sources. The recommendation of 1.5g of Protein per unit body weight is for kilograms, not pounds. Your intake, according to this, is >3g/kg if your CBW is 233lb(~105kg). The correct protein requirement following these recommendations for you would be 158g/day. This is still high but for bulking up or endurance athletes this is acceptable. The protein requirement would be more for repair than actual building though. Muscle mass can be gained by modest increases in protein if any at all. There are many Sports Dietitians out there who study this very subject extensively. A quick Google search will pull up a few. One of my former professors is a former bodybuilding and a Sports Dietitian. Articles to considered are referenced here: http://bit.ly/TvJ9i
Good input Ross, but take a look at the article again. I’m recommending 1.5g per pound, im not saying the RDA recommends that. I realize how much protein that is, and from my training experiences this has better effect.
First sentence of this post is “There is lots of controversy in the nutrition world about a high protein diet.” I work with sports dietitians about this subject daily and there are some who agree and some who don’t.
Early in my career I worked with all body builders and thats why I adopted this theory. Like you mentioned, the extra protein is mostly for the repair needed. Thats why I like it.
Thanks for your input though.
Hi, I popped in for the Boomers & Seniors: News You Can Use Blog Carnival. Thanks for a very interesting article. My senior mom loves to do similar exercises with a community cable show specifically geared for senior citizens. I’ll have to show her your exercises to see if there are some new ones for her.
We both also enjoy walking together. It gives us a chance to spend some time chatting and get some good exercise. In addition, I will usually walk another two miles a day while I chat on the cell phone with my daughters. I get nice visits and don’t even notice I’m “working out.” That’s my favorite way to exercise
Hi Kaye. Exercising with a partner or talking with someone while you exercise is always helpful to make the time go by. Walks by yourself can often be pretty boring haha.
I have quite a few quality routines for seniors. If your mother would like to discuss any of the routines or exercises, tell her to contact me at contact@gohealthyfitness.com.
Thanks for reading =)
interesting material, where such topics do you find? I will often go
What’s most important is that you eat properly even when you’re trying to lose weight. One of the biggest misunderstandings is that you should drastically cut calories when you’re dieting
. In fact, these high-protein low carbohydrate diets can give you a lot more nutrition then you might get with other types of diets. And, for most people, this type of diet is safe and satisfies hunger pangs.
exactly, cutting calories drastically isn’t what works in the long run. Even with a high protein diet, you don’t have to cut carbs that much.
Over training can mess you up lol, no one wants to get sick and over training only leads towards that. Good input.
Determining if you’re currently over-training is fairly simple. If you’re in tune with your body, you can often see the signs of over-training before they get serious. If you are losing interest in workouts, are having trouble sleeping, and feel weak and irritable, you may be in a state of over-training and should take a week or more off
When I began working out, I was overtraining. I started to think something when my eye would twitch.
Great content. Looking for some nutrition materials when I stumbled across your site.
Bookmarked!
Very nice post on nutrition. Hope to learn more from you.
Nice post about protein diet. i have learned much more from this post. thanks for the posing.
Found your blog while browsing Google. Bookmarked. Looking forward to more nutrition tips.
In order to grow, muscles must fully recover from their last workout, every workout. If you are over-training and work the muscles before they have fully recovered, you will break down the muscle tissue before it has rebuilt-making it impossible to build muscle
Came across your post as I was looking for whey protein related info. Very nice post. Hope to learn more from you.
Yay Your back!!!!!
lol yep
Numerous studies have demonstrated that regular weight training can have a positive effect on health by showing reductions in the rate of insulin resistance, blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer
Nice post and blog! Greets.
Nice post and blog! Greets.
Hey! Nice job here! I’ll be dropping by from time to time
An interesting read and although I like many have tried several of the latest diets I have not been able to stick with them for various reasons. My last attempt is scheduled for next month and researchng the latest diets I have heard some good things about the Fat Burning Furnace. Has anyone here tried it and is it any good?
There are some good diets out there on the market, but most are filled with bull crap just to be something new to make a buck. Im not familar with the Fat Burning Furnace diet, but I am familiar with affiliate marketing…so if you can tell me the design of this diet plan and what you liked about it, I will leave your link up there.
Please no affiliate links in comments unless you can provide valued information about your product and its relavent.
I like to try out all the ebooks, diets, and whatever products are out there for my viewers. Better to know what works than recommend blindly
Hey – nice blog, just looking around some blogs, seems a pretty nice platform you are using. I’m currently using Wordpress for a few of my sites but looking to change one of them over to a platform similar to yours as a trial run. Anything in particular you would recommend about it?
thanks for the compliment. I liked to go with a magazine looking layout. Wordpress offers so many, its really helpful. If you know any HTML or CSS or can make it look really nice. I usually make small tweaks to make it my own. It works out nice for me.
Useful info, nice blog, thanks.
this is some great information you have here thanks for this
If you are looking for a way to gain weight without building any fat, then you are out of luck. However, you can keep the same amount of body fat percentage as you are gaining weight.
thats theoretically true. but over an 8 week period you can drop body fat % and gain weight
I don’t use bar bells when I lift, but I still was able to implement what you wrote and use it for my own use. I workout on the weight machines. One thing tht I got a long time ago is that concentration is so important. I am not sure why not many people replied to this post. I just wanted to tell you that I agree with you. I appreciate the information, thanks.
Thats great Jasmin. Im glad you adapted with what you had. All your muscles can be hit with every day items. Good luck with your workouts and enjoy good health. =)
I very happy reading your blog post. Thank you very much for provide good information.
Excellent work. You have gained a new fan. Please keep up the good work and I look forward to more of the same interesting posts.