B Fit 4 Winter is a standards-based fitness oversized “board game” that enables up to 100 children to learn, in a fun way, basic condition exercises that will help prepare them for participation in a snow sport including alpine skiing, snowshoeing, cross country skiing and  snowboarding. The game is a collaboration between SIA’s award-winning Winter Feels Good initiative and Skillastics®, an education-based company that produces a variety of games that encourage physical activity, sports and recreation among children.

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John Berardi of Precision Nutrition, wrote in his blog last week about two recent studies (you can find them here) that tell us how consuming 20 or 30 grams of protein per meal is all one needs to improve recovery and protein synthesis.

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Athletes have a love/hate relationship with pigeon pose. Most who hate it at first do so because it hits all the tight places in athletic hips. Once those release, folks learn to love it. But in its traditional orientation, facing downward, pigeon pose can be far too intense in an athletic body, causing more trouble than it solves.

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