Nutrition

Garage Strength provides individualized nutrition plans for all clients.  These vary from a mass gaining diet, to a weight loss diet, a vegetarian diet, ketogenic diet, seasonal diet, regional (Asian, Mediterranean, Nordic, Native) and permanent lifestyle guide to nutrition.

Nutrition is a crucial aspect to healthy living and extraordinary training. With proper eating, an athlete rarely needs supplements or enhancers because they receive the proper amounts of bodybuilding vitamins and minerals from their food source. Proper nutrition starts by understanding food production and the human body’s digestive system prior to forming a diet that best mimics your needs through whole, nutritious, real foods.

Being schooled under the ideas of Francis Pottenger, Weston Price, Gary Taubes, Sally Fallon and Jack Lalanne has given me a very unique perspective on nutrition. These individuals each did a tremendous amount of research before developing suggestions on nutrition. Personally, I believe the best words of wisdom came from Jack Lalanne when he simply said, “If man made it, don’t eat it.”

For all of history, humanity has survived and progressed by eating whole foods. Not until recent times did we start eating highly processed food, loaded with energy (calories) but significantly lacking vitamins and minerals. These modern eating habits have led to a massive rise in debilitating diseases and are not conducive to proper recovery from intense training.

The modern diet severely lacks omega-3 fatty acids. These acids are crucial to muscle and bone development and needed for proper recovery. Omega-3’s also reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. Modern diet dictocrats have continuously guided consumers away from fats. I find this appalling as fat is the most efficient provider of energy (1 gram – 9 calories). Fat also provides a base for the most crucial body building vitamins as the Vitamins A, D, E and K are fat soluble. By eating grass fed beef, grass fed lamb, pastured pork, wild fish, pastured poultry and grass fed raw milk, recovery will come in an easy and natural fashion. These foods are also loaded with all of the crucial minerals needed for proper growth during adolescence, and recovery from intense training sessions.

Any questions on nutrition, please contact me via email: Dane@GarageStrength.com

Dane is also the chapter leader for the Reading/Berks County area for the Weston A. Price Foundation.  Feel free to email him about more information on the Foundation and further research into whole foods.

If you live in the Reading/Berks County area, here is a list of local farmers providing tremendous food sources.

Dove Song Dairy

Misty Meadows Farm, LLC: 67 New Schaefferstown Rd, Bernville, PA 19506. Phone: (610) 488-0164

Wholesome Dairy Farm

M and B Farview Farm

Greener Pastures Farm: Greener Pastures Farm, Shartlesville, Pa. 610-488-6059. Contact Steve at gpfarm@verizon.net

Pasture’s Pride: Kutztown, Pa. Contact Joy at Pasturespride@verizon.net or at 610-683-5436.

Spring Creek Farms: 3880 N. Chruch St., Wernersville, PA 19565. Contact Forrest at: (610) 678-7629

For Natural Turkey and locally grown produce, contact Daniel Heffner: Heffner’s Farm on Heffner Lane 610-926-1693

For local farmer’s markets check the Leesport Farmer’s Market every Wednesday or the Fairgrounds Farmers Market every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Fairgrounds Market also provides raw Swiss Brown milk and raw goats milk.