- Category: Journal, Research Lab
- Date: 7.11.09
Facebook comes to my rescue again! Got an invite to a group the other day “87 Days of Paleo“. Just what I needed. For the last little bit I’ve been trying to get back on the Paleo diet, with not much success, I’d keep cheating, and with getting my new apartment ready to move into I’ve been all over the place with my eating (for the first time EVER actually MISSING meals!).
Kate Rawlings of Crossfit Cleveland is running an 87 day fitness challenge for her firm. To make it a challenge for herself as well, she chose to add in the 87 days of paleo. Making it a group brings it out into the public, and it’s always easier to accomplish something when you got people watching you. And in perfect timing too, I’ll be out on my own (FINALLY) by Monday - the same day that the challenge is set to start!
Said to be “The World’s Healthiest Diet“, this won’t just be a hard challenge, it will be bringing with it improved fitness, health, and well-being.
The Paleo Diet is a way of eating in the modern age that best mimics the nutrition of our evolutionary and genetic heritage - an ancestral, Paleolithic diet. For millions of years our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate combinations of lean meats, seafoods, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. But today in America, more than 70% of our dietary calories come from foods that our Paleolithic (Stone Age) ancestors rarely if ever ate … and that modern humans are not genetically adapted to eat. The result is epidemic levels of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, arthritis, acne, gastrointestinal disease, and more.
- Taken from ThePaleoDiet.com
I’ll be tracking my results through this challenge, the first few weeks should be interesting while I go through “sugar withdrawl”, and I’ll keep adding new Paleo recipes as I go.
I urge everybody reading this to give it a try as well, see how long you can last, trust me, it’ll be worth it!
Here’s a nice simple site I found with tonns of great recipes and ideas
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- Category: Journal
- Date: 7.10.09
Society today is housing too many damn weaklings! And I don’t just mean physically, what happened to people’s minds?! Why do people so easily (and nonchalantly) just cheat?
I was running a Crossfit class this morning, and one of the attendees would just skip out on reps left and right. The workout was 50-40-30-20-10 of Double Unders, Box Jumps, and Sit Ups. I knew this one lady was a habitual cheater from previous classes, so I started counting after she blasted through her first round.
She couldn’t do double unders, so she was prescribed to hit up 3 times the number of singles. So the second round came, and she confirms that 120 single skips need to be done, then gets on her way… Dropping her rope at 70 and heading to her box… Seriously, 70?! That’s not even close, you can’t even chalk that one up to a miscount, no chance in hell. Then her box jumps, a normal occurance, breaking them up into smaller more manageable sets. 10 sounds good, 4 sets of 10 with a little breather between each. Well she chose to do 3 sets of 9, followed by a set of 8 and then off to the sit ups. I mean come on lady, what the fuck?
I’m totally ok with people that physically can’t do the workout, cause ya know we can modify it so that YOU CAN DO IT. Don’t just puss out! Or better yet, completely fucken cheat just so you can get a better time!
What do you get from cheating? The point of Crossfit is to increase your physical capabilities. Cheating through your workout will not do that. Toughing it out and finishing the workout properly, even if it’s a shit time - WILL!
And how the hell do these people expect to gauge their results too? I mean she happily ran over to her book and jotted down her time for the workout, but what happens when she comes back to this workout in the future? Will she just try and cheat more to beat her current time? Or did she record the workout including her cheating, so that she may cheat the exact same the next time around to accurately determine her progress?
Bottom line, when you cheat, you’re not beating the other people in the class, you’re not furthering your fitness - You’re looking like a damn fool!
DON’T BE A HOMO - FINISH THE GOD DAMN WORKOUT!
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