Olé Soccer challenges you and your family to take the smoothie challenge!
#OléSmoothieChallenge
For the month of August, we will challenge all families to drink at least one smoothie each day. This can be first thing in the morning, lunch or later in the day. There are a ton of benefits on why the smoothie challenge can benefit your family, here are a few below.
21 Reasons to Consume Healthy Smoothies
(via Healthy Smoothie Headquarters)
- Get your daily allowance of fruits and vegetables. Consuming the daily recommendations of fruits and vegetables can be a challenge. Blending a couple of servings of each into a smoothie helps ensure you meet your body’s daily nutritional needs.
- Quick and easy. Making your own nutrient dense smoothie doesn’t take as long as preparing most meals, giving you more time for others things. Taking a smoothie with you is an additional convenient option.
- Kids like smoothies. Getting your kids to eat healthy foods is not always easy. Fortunately, most kids love the taste of a creamy smoothie naturally sweetened by fruit or a good sweetener like honey, maple syrup, or stevia. You can even hide veggies in your kid’s smoothies that they would never eat on their own. For more info on kid friendly smoothies, see how to make smoothies your kids will love.
- Easier weight loss. There are a number of weight loss programs that promote replacing a meal with a liquid drink. Provide your body with all the vitamins and minerals it needs via smoothies, cut out the weight gaining crap from your diet, and watch the pounds melt away. Lose weight easier than before and slim down the healthy way with diet smoothies.
- Improved digestion. Nobody I know wants to experience constipation or indigestion. Let your blender “chew” your food and ease the burden on your digestive system while you simultaneously consume plenty of dietary fiber to ensure excellent digestion.
- Delicious. Yes, eating healthy and tasting great can go hand in hand. With so many recipes to choose from, finding one or more pleasing to your palate is a breeze.
- Detox. We’re exposed to and bombarded by thousands of man-made chemicals in today’s world, which leaves our body begging to detoxify. Give your digestive system a break while adding detoxifying ingredients like dandelion greens and kale into your smoothies to aid your body’s detoxification processes.
- Build muscle and improve athletic performance. Provide your body with the nutrients it needs to excel during athletic competition, and recover and rebuild after working out. It’s easier for your body to absorb and assimilate the nutrients in a smoothie as opposed to a meal.
- Reach your own personal health goals. Tailor your smoothies to meet your desired health goals.
- Beauty. Think radiant skin, hair, and nails. Supply your body with the vitamins and minerals it requires to grow healthier hair and make your skin glow.
- Healthy eating education. By learning what constitutes a healthy smoothie, you’ll also educate yourself on what comprises a healthy diet. This will allow you to make better decisions when the blender isn’t around. You’ll be more confident in your food choices.
- Strengthen your immune system. Getting sick is no fun. Reduce the number of times you get sick (if at all) and lesson the severity by empowering your immune system.
- Deeper sleep. Improving your health by consuming healthy smoothies almost always results in better sleep at night.
- Meal flexibility. You can consume a smoothie at any meal, not just breakfast. No time for lunch, grab or make a quick smoothie.
- Healthy ingredients galore. The number of healthy ingredients available for smoothies is practically limitless. After your basic fruits and vegetables, you can add an array of the various spices, herbs, superfoods, and other health foods. The possibilities and combinations are endless.
- Energy. Supply your body with the right fuel for more energy in the short and long term.
- Empowerment. Take control of your health through simple and delicious healthy smoothies.
- Reduce cravings. We all crave sweets and unhealthy foods from time to time. Reduce those cravings, or better yet, replace what you would normally splurge on with a healthy alternative.
- Brain boost. Give your brain all the vitamins and nutrients it needs to improve your mental clarity, focus, and memory. Say goodbye to brain fog.
- Happiness. Experience a renewed sense of calm and well-being that good health leads to. Be in a good mood all the time.
- Fun! Many people including myself find creating smoothies to be rather enjoyable. You can think of yourself as a modern day alchemist mixing and matching various smoothie ingredients.
Ready to take control of your health?
Be on the lookout for recipes and tips throughout the month that will allow provide lots of value and health benefits!
Looking forward to the journey and excited to see the results. Remember it takes 21 days to build a habit, good or bad!
What is your favorite type of smoothie? What are the benefits of this smoothie? Share your thoughts and resources below to be part of our Olé Soccer community.
Want to win a NutriBullet?
Ole Soccer is giving away 2 Nutribullets this month thanks to our amazing friends at Urban Futsal LA for sponsoring the health movement!
Rules:
1. Sign up for our Email Newsletter
2. Sign up for the weekly Friday Night Clinics for your child for the entire month of August – Click Here for More Info
3. Tag us on Social Media @OleSoccer with a photo drinking a smoothie this month. We prefer to see you and your child drinking it together!
– Use (#) Hashtag #OleSmoothieChallenge as well
4. Most important rule!! Have fun and be healthy together!
Hope you can all join us, even if you do not win the bullet, you can be part of our health and wellness movement together. Share your team spirit and be part of our community of change.