Three Tips to a Fitness Friendly Thanksgiving
- Buy the highest quality ingredients you can find - Eat. Enjoy it. Be Thankful.
- Purchase an Organic Free Range Turkey from Natural Grocers or a Farmer’s Market in your area.
- Use Grass-Fed Butter. It’s delicious.
- Don’t buy canned Pumpkin or canned Cranberries – instead make it from fresh organic ingredients. All can linings are riddled with BPA (derived from synthetic estrogen)
The Power of Tradition
* 2003 National Championship Team (Derek York, Cele Rodriguez, Mohamed Aden, Enrique Guerrero, Josh Merrick, Matt Levassiur, Jesus Solis)
How Do You Know When to Stop Working Out?
Everyone would agree that unless you dread seeing your family this is an extremely ineffective use of your time and resources.
Lifting Without Lifting - The BreakThrough
To become the fast and vicious Olympic Lifter you want to be, you have to lift without lifting. This is not a zen-like approach of using your mind to Snatch all the weight, it is learning to pull or push yourself under the bar instead of trying to lift it up to you. It is the giving up on the idea that you have had since the first time you picked up a barbell – that you must lift it – all the time.
Starfish Feet – OverPuller – doesn’t like to lose any tension on the barbell.
Cortisol, Heavy Metal, and Health
Cortisol equals stress equals belly fat. That is what most people know about cortisol and although that is not fully wrong it is far from the whole story.
Call Yourself an Athlete - Just Do It
Athlete - a person who is proficient in sports and other forms of physical exercise.
Is Betty the soccer mom who trains regularly, is faster than her kids, and sometimes plays tennis with other soccer moms an athlete?
Yes
Is she really?
No
Do we really want to be the guy or gal that argues the semantics of the word athlete and crushes Betty’s dreams?
I hope not
It is annoying, like being the guy who finds a way to use the word semantics in an incredibly informal blog post.
PDS CrossFit: Overview and Adaptation
*Photo Courtesy of Dan Morice Photography
Goals / Philosophy
What If You Are SmokeShowed? Should You Show Up?
To go along with the previous post, what if you do not live this ideal athlete life of minimized stress, perfect eating, and full recovery? Well it’s pretty simple if you come in crushed from life, lack of sleep, and Halloween candy you are not going to get to pick up anything heavy or destroy it in the weight room. That would be stacking stress on a system that is already highly stressed AKA a great way to steal gainz, get you sick, and perhaps even injure yourself.