Wholistic Fitness

Out of 4,700 qualified applicants…Coach gets accepted onto the roster of PowerBar� Team Elite…again!

“I have been taught that the Peaceful Warrior looks at the world through compassionate eyes that sees the suffering of all beings. I designed WF (Wholistic Fitness�) as a multi-disciplined Path of Yoga to help us feel our life more fully; be it painful or happy, poor or rich, ugly or beautiful. A Warrior lives their life authentically, not addicted to comfort or sense pleasures. The Warrior continually looks within. That is what matters most in the long run.”
– Coach Ilg
photo by LA TIMES

{the above appeared in February in “Reflections,” WF Student Kristi Lees Blog}
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It is with honor and many, many bonks diverted, that i accept entry onto PowerBar’s Team Elite�.

Though often approached by other supplement representatives, PowerBar’s Performance Bars and PowerGels remain the only synthetic source of ‘supplementation’ that i use, endorse, and embrace. And, like SUNRIDER� Whole Foods, I have been with this fine company since Brian Maxwell and Jennifer began making us Boulder, Colorado athletes test their “Energy Glops” from their own oven back in the early eighties.

PowerBars remain, like Wholistic Fitness�, the Original and remain the peerless leader in Western Energy Nutrition. Their amino acid profile is superior, their short-to-medium-to-long-term cascade of nutrient integrity and assimilation while the body is undergoing exercise is unmatched in the industry that attempted to copy them and still has not come close. All the rest of the Energy Bars? Candy bars that mess with your blood sugar regulation. If you test, really test, any other bar within the physiologic and pranayamic realms like i do…there is no question about it; PowerBars have that something Special; integrity across the spectrum.

Having said that,
i do admit…i remain utterly Old School with my PowerBar preferences:

Here it is…Malt Nut, baby! Man, if i could take ONE MAN MADE THING WITH ME INTO THE BARDO?!?!
Yup…
Malt Nut PowerBars, baby! I know that they could get me through all of the 100 Bardo Realms, even the the 58 Wrathful Realms..just lemme have my Malt Nut PowerBar’s, baby…i can do it! Seriously however, on this Plane, i have field tested the various incarnations of PowerBar Performance Bars across a wider, more elite spectrum of outdoor and inner realm fitness than anyone else i know; including the rest of my PowerBar Team Elite Teammates! Age and stupidity enough to get myself into all sorts of epic high mountain situations have convinced me of one undeniable fact; without PowerBar Performance Bars including a vital profile of Leucine, Isoleucine, and Valine amino acids for working musculature, i would not be here today. They have literally saved my frozen, injured, bonked out, and utterly lost ass on more occasions than i wish to sheepishly admit. Second choice flavor; Chocolate. I know, I know…PowerBar’s first two original flavors…awlright then, go ahead, say it; Coach Ilg is still stuck in the ‘eighties!…there, you happy, now?

Prevent your next bonk; get yourself a box of PowerBars and don’t leave on a workout without one!

Next up: PowerBar’s PowerGel�

Aren’t these things just overpriced Gluey Yucky Sugar Globules?

Uh..no.

In fact, i am convinced that if the Ancient Yogic studs like Siddhartha, Milarepa, and even ol’ Patanjali himself would have had access to PowerGels? They woulda probably lived off of them instead of that honey and ghee crap. I’m serious. Remember, the single most important factor to beginning the Ascent of Kundalini and subsequent control of inner locks and conscious breathing rhythms is…

no blubber belly…no pooch…no nothing except a tremendous pumphouse of consciously controlled organs and subtle musculature. one cannot feast upon dead animals, junk food, and unneeded calories and still expect the refinery of inner potentiation to arrive at unskilled, unworked for command! Thus, any Yogi worth his or her Mula Bandha knows that several hours of no eating is required before a deep Practice of asana, pranayam, or meditation. But you need SOMETHING to keep your Chi Up, right? Well, try this:

Far more than just Sugar Globules, PowerGels (i helped design the following nutrient profile) are intelligently created to sustain energy and replace electrolytes and branched-chained amino acids, and anti-oxidants:
Maltodextrin, Filtered Water, Fructose, Citric Acid, Natural Flavor, PowerBar� Amino Acid Blend (Leucine, Valine, Isoleucine), Potassium Chloride, Salt, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate (to retard spoilage), Antioxidant Vitamins C and E (Ascorbic Acid, a-Tocopheryl Acetate)

Told ya…
Patanjali probably could have given us a FEW MORE WORDS in his Yoga Sutras if he would had the Energy of PowerGels�!!!

Anyway,
i bow my head and deepen my Padmasasana to my new friends at my old, old company; PowerBar�. It was an honor to set up many of PowerBar’s original accounts within the Front Range and Four Corners back in the day…and i am very, very happy for the success of a wonderful athlete (God Bless Your Soul); Brian Maxwell who followed his AUTHENTIC passion and made a lot of athletes better people along the way. Myself included.

PowerBar�; The only synthetic supplement i endorse. It burns as clean as a whisper and gives you the Power you need to just keep
CRANKIN’!!!!!!!!

namaste from an old traveler along the Upwardly Inclined Path,

coach ilg
Member/PowerBar� Team Elite