Figo: Lunges and Rosemary Roasted Butternut Squash

This FigoFit & FigoFood episode has us gearing up for Thanksgiving Day!

For FigoFit, Peanut demonstrates a step back lunge and single arm press. This is a great move to tone the shoulders and tighten up the legs! Add this … Read more

In Season Produce this Spring

Choose recipes that contain produce of the season! As the air becomes fragrant with warmth and vegetation in April, May, and early June, I like to think green. Some of my favorite choices include:

asparagus
spring peas
artichokes
zucchini
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The Best Weight Training Exercise for Runners

Running Season is here! Try out the Smith Machine Step Back Lunge for your cross training workouts. Hit the finish line faster with this move to target your GLUTES and ABS for strength and tone!

Complete 10 reps on each … Read more

Small Victories with Trainer Peanut

I’m about a week out from the Fitness Atlantic 2014 in Connecticut! One small victory, one day at a time in reaching my ultimate goal. Slip ups have ABSOLUTELY happened, but I didn’t let them overcome me. I didn’t come … Read more

life lessons learned in italian culinary school

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LA ESPERIENZA experience

If there was ever a time that I thought I was “the shit” in the kitchen at my school or while on my internship, it was often quickly repressed by a complete and absolute failure on my … Read more

your relationship with food

Everyone needs to have a relationship with food. We need a relationship with food if we want to survive. Some have a healthy relationship with food, and others have an unhealthy relationship with food.

According to a statistic from the … Read more

how to make kale chips


Kale is a superfood packed with folid acid, vitamin K, iron & vitamin B6. It’s easy to eat these healthy greens when they’re dried and accented with good quality Italian olive oil and sea salt.

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3 minute jump rope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2lVl0UggHA

Day 3. Peanut inspires you to keep on moving, even if it means trespassing into your local mall’s North Pole. In this clip ended unintentionally short, Peanut risks it for the sake of fitness and gets kicked out of … Read more