For those of you who have been waiting for the Amazon.com Subscribe & Save feature to launch, it finally has! Four of the five Core Power flavors have been available on Read more »]]>

For those of you who have been waiting for the Amazon.com Subscribe & Save feature to launch, it finally has! Four of the five Core Power flavors have been available on Amazon.com for several weeks now, but the cost-saving Subscribe & Save option took some time to activate. Subscribe & Save is a great opportunity to have Core Power regularly delivered to your doorstep by our good friends over at Amazon.com, and by signing up to do it, you save a little money as well.

Many of you have been asking questions about our online sales of Core Power, and we’d like to take a couple minutes to answer them:

Where Can I Buy Core Power Online Now?

We’ve decided that we’d like to leave the online sales experts in charge of online sales, so we’ve handed this over to Amazon.com – and there will be others in the future. We’ll work hard to make sure that they keep our product in stock so that you can get your Core Power where and when you need it. Want to help? Feel free to write an Amazon product review on any of our flavors! And stay tuned to Twitter and Facebook for additional online opportunities as they come up.

Why is Core Power More Expensive Online Now than It Was when It Was HoneyMilk?

That’s a great question – we totally understand how much of a bummer it can be to see the price your favorite products increase. Nothing super awesome about that. But our goal is to give you more value for your buck when you compare our product to the others on the market, and will always strive to keep our prices competitive. We know that what you put into your body is important and that’s why we use real fresh lactose-free milk and natural ingredients when we make Core Power. No powders like the other guys are doing. It’s a high quality product for discerning athletes like you… And as much as we’d love to be able to continue to cover the cost of shipping like we did when we sold the product via our own website, we just can’t afford to do that anymore. That’s where the Subscribe & Save feature on Amazon comes in and makes sense. We really hope that you’ll take advantage of it.

Where Oh Where is Chocolate Light?

Right now, there are four flavors of Core Power available (Vanilla, Honey, Chocolate and Strawberry Banana) on Amazon.com, but Chocolate Light has been ordered by Amazon and shipped, so should appear there soon. It’s also making its way to retailers in Texas and Colorado, and later this summer to other parts of the country. We’ll announce on Twitter and Facebook as Chocolate Light becomes more and more available.

No, Really. Where’s the Coffee?

The coffee flavor has not been made as a Core Power flavor, but we are definitely paying attention to the comments and requests that are coming in. If you’d like to leave your vote to bring coffee back, you may do so here. In the mean time,  click on the coffee bottle below to scoop up the coffee that is being sold at Amazon.com, while supplies last!

We’re working hard on getting into a TON more stores later this summer, so please stay tuned for updates on that progress. We’ll be updating our store locator weekly, so please check back there to see us grow, and to find out if we’re in your neck of the woods!

If you have other questions, please reach out to us using our handy dandy contact form.

Please stay tuned for more updates, and to get the inside scoop on upcoming events, and on Core Power athletes Tom Danielson, Laura Bennett and Ironman Champ Craig Alexander!

More cool updates:

Another Podium Finish for Tom Danielson at Amgen Tour of California

Core Power Athlete Laura Bennett Powers Her Way to London Olympics 2012!

Core Power Looking for Love on Google Mountain View Campus

Thanks for your continued support!!

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After a grueling 8 stages that twisted and turned all over the Golden State, the final stage of the Amgen Tour of California wrapped up in downtown Los Angeles today and we are very happy to congratulate Core Power athlete Read more »]]>

After a grueling 8 stages that twisted and turned all over the Golden State, the final stage of the Amgen Tour of California wrapped up in downtown Los Angeles today and we are very happy to congratulate Core Power athlete Tom Danielson for taking 3rd overall in the prestigious competition…. for the second year in a row.

Amidst an energetic crowd that was made up of professional and amateur athletes, enthusiastic riders who took part in the Ride Before the Pros, and even hard core cycling fans like actor Patrick Dempsey, the cyclists finished up on Figueroa in the heat of the California Sun. Danielson took third, while Garmin teammate David Zabriskie took second and Rabobank’s Robert Gesink took the top spot.

Here are a few more shots taken from the finish line… to see all the shot’s from today’s awesome wrap up, see the ATOC album on our Facebook page.

Congratulations Tommy!

A week ago Core Power was given the opportunity to take part in the 2012 Google Food Fair, an event hosted on the beautiful Google campus in Mountain View, CA. This fair is a chance for Google employees to taste and experience snacks ... Read more »]]>

A week ago Core Power was given the opportunity to take part in the 2012 Google Food Fair, an event hosted on the beautiful Google campus in Mountain View, CA. This fair is a chance for Google employees to taste and experience snacks and beverages that they’d like to have available in their kitchenettes and gyms. They taste the products and then have a couple weeks to vote for the products that they like the best. Fingers crossed, they like Core Power and will soon be drinking it on campus!

We decided to go in with a Superhero / Comic Book theme, and let Googlers pose with superheros (and Clifford the Big Red dog, who was apparently lost that day, so we adopted him) in front of a comic book backdrop. The premise (as seen in these comic book pages below) was that the Google campus was being threatened by the evils of Buffering Man, a villain whose sole purpose is to slow the watching of entertaining online videos by buffering and buffering and buffering… Googlers who donned a “Captain Googler” outfit joined the forces of Wonder Woman, the Flash… and Clifford… to stop the evil Buffering Man.

And remember Googlers:

A VOTE FOR CORE POWER IS A VOTE FOR FREEDOM!

//Top photo courtesy of San Jose Mercury News. All other photos by Mona T. Brooks. View all photos at http://www.monabrooks.com/events.

(Photo credit: Laura’s husband Greg Bennett!)

Her awesome finish time of ... Read more »]]> With an impressive 3rd place finish at ITU World Triathlon San Diego yesterday, Core Powered triathlete Laura Bennett is on her way back to the Olympics!

(Photo credit: Laura’s husband Greg Bennett!)

Her awesome finish time of 2:00:11 in the 1500-meter swim, 40-kilometer bike and 10-kilometer run means that she claimed the final olympic spot on the US Womens Triathlon team and will join Sarah Groff and Gwen Jorgenson in London. This will be her second trip to the Olympic games – Laura placed 4th at the Beijing Olympics. Watch the USA Triathlon YouTube interview to hear more about the race:

From sandiego.tritahlon.org: “Sarah [Haskins] and I had to be in the top nine, so it was kind of important that we all worked together on the bike and then we could fight it out at the end, and we did so,” Bennett said. Read the rest of the article on the San Diego race here, and the USA Triathlon recap is here.

 Stay tuned to this website, our Facebook page and our Twitter feed for more updates and fun with Laura over the coming months as she preps for London!

On behalf of everyone here at Core Power, and all of your fans out there: CONGRATULATIONS LAURA! We’re honored to be your high protein recovery drink and part of your training, and wish you the best of luck as you prepare to head off and represent the USA  in London!

Fair Oaks Farms is a health and wellness company that promises to help people live life to the fullest by ... Read more »]]> At Fair Oaks Farms Brands (the parent company of Core Power), our goal is to provide better nutrition so that people can focus on leading healthier happier lives. This objective rings true in our company promise:

Fair Oaks Farms is a health and wellness company that promises to help people live life to the fullest by providing them with great-tasting, effective, natural nutrition that starts with the highest quality milk from the most environmentally sustainable farms in America.

We realize that providing great-tasting, effective nutriton is just one step in a many layered process. We also need encouragement, we need education and we need commitment from those around us. And in this day and age, we need that encouragement and support not only from our friends and loved ones, but from our professional colleagues as well.

That’s why we’re starting a new feature here at Core Power, in which we will shine our spotlight on a company that we think is doing awesome things to encourage their employees to live life to the fullest through fitness, nutrition and good health. By doing so, we hope to provide examples of programs that companies everywhere can learn from as they make their own progress towards company fitness. The companies that we select will be featured here on the blog, and will receive some Core Power from us as a token of appreciation for what they are doing for their employees.

 

Congratulations are in order for United Power in Brighton, CO – the first company that we are highlighting for their great efforts. Here’s their story:

In late 2010, the management team at United Power, Inc., an electric utility co-op in Brighton, Colorado, was facing alarming increases in costs for employee health insurance, and a continuing upward spiral in employee health issues.  Rather than just sit and watch the problem continue and possibly even grow, the United Power Senior Management Team took a proactive stand.  Realizing that they couldn’t directly change the costs, they tackled the other part of the equation, improving employee wellness. From that directive came the birth of the United Power Working On Wellness taskforce (WOW), a group of six employee volunteers under the direction of Kim Marsh, United Power’s Manager of Human Resources.

Thanks to United Power for sharing their story with us – we wish them the best of luck as they plan for their next big race!

Does YOUR company do some really great things for their employees in the world of health and wellness? Nominate them in the comments below or by posting a short description on our Facebook Page!

Let’s face it. We are busy bodies. We go go go every day day day.

Up at 5am, workout, work, kid’s events, errands, eat, play, sleep (if we’re lucky), repeat, etc. Well… that all can add up. ... Read more »]]>

Let’s face it. We are busy bodies. We go go go every day day day.

Up at 5am, workout, work, kid’s events, errands, eat, play, sleep (if we’re lucky), repeat, etc. Well… that all can add up. In fact, it can be almost at much strain on our body as working out for hours. Did you know that? Our bodies don’t know the difference between the two kinds of stressors; physical and emotional/mental. That being said, our nutrition and recovery are just as important when we are in the midst of busyness.

We need those good calories, we need that protein, and we need to take an hour to decompress.

How about iced café mocha? Coffee + chocolate COREPOWER+ ice= The perfect midmorning break!

How do you decompress the stress? Leave a comment and let us know!

Cheers,

LC

Lindsay is a pro triathlete’s wife, nutrition/fitness consultant, and shares a passion for GLUTEN FREE cooking! #FitFluential Ambassador – Meet Lindsay at CotterCrunch.com.

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Often times, when people are on the road for work, they want to get in some high-quality workouts… but their legs feel like garbage from ... Read more »]]> Today, professional triathlete Doug MacLean gives us his insight on how to stay ready to train despite the lulls of inactivity due to travel:

Often times, when people are on the road for work, they want to get in some high-quality workouts… but their legs feel like garbage from all that sitting in a car or on an airplane. What to do? Try wearing compression socks when in the car/plane, and always travel with a massage stick.

The compression socks will keep blood flowing through your legs when you’re sitting for long periods, and you can use the massage stick to break up any muscle tightness. Combine the socks and the stick, and you’ll be able to hammer high- quality training sessions even after sitting on a plane for 6 hours!

Great tip, Doug, thanks! Do you have additional training tips for your fellow traveling athletes? Please share in the comments below!

Core Power user Doug MacLean is a pro triathlete and triathlon coach. You can follow Doug on Twitter and learn more about him on his website.

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