Great Chipper Today!

Great job today.  We had a visitor today that really pushed us to do better.  Welcome Josh from CrossFit Laverne. 3-2-1 GO!

Beverages anyone?

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/6-beverage-industry-secrets-they-dont-want-you-know-0

CrossFit article in Forbes mag

http://blogs.forbes.com/sportsmoney/2010/07/the-crossfit-games-an-action-sports-investment-opportunity-in-the-making/

ok ...

ha! knew i should have just thrown away that teeny bit of creamer i had left that i bought weeks ago ...90% again Tuesday. i feel a little leaner and more "with it" mentally and am actually recieving comments on how i look slimmer after 2 days at 90%???  hmmm maybe there is something to this checklist. Maybe i actually know what i am doing.      Today started well so i am thinking 100% today.   If i can do it, you can do it,  folks!!  :)

-TODD

a few things...

So those of us who are keeping up on the research are aware that eating a smart, ancestral diet mitigates a whole host of common "western" ailments like cancer but this seems to me a worthy cause and so it will be my first 5k ... and hope to inspire more folks to join me. Lets make a good showing from CrossFit LifeSport...i am going to try to get Rogue Fitness in on the action as well  http://www.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=418590  

 My first day of adherence to my own checklist was Monday and i was 90% - having only a smidge of sugary coffee creamer in the morning... today will be 100%!

Phil’s Kick-Ass Corner

Busy, Busy, Busy……  Ok I have gotten 40% the last couple days which puts me at 40% for the week.  I am not sure why it has been hard for me to just turn on the strict diet this week.  Probably the fact that I will be on vacation this week coming up. Going to Petoskey, MI and it will be hard to be strict during vacation but I am going to work out everyday on vacation.  I am working on programming my week now, I have a k5 scheduled where me an my wife will run and kids will ride their bikes.  I have a Tabatta with Push ups, squats, and sit-ups that we all will do one morning.   If you guys have any fun ideas let me know, I will post our results daily.

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Ok is it just me or is the CrossFit Games better than the Olympics, I have been watching as much as possible and I LOVE IT.  It is completely motivating me, so much so that I am going to say this……. Wait for it…….. I will at least compete at the 1st level of this event next year, I believe that is the regional's but Todd you will know more. So there it is, I said it, now it will happen.

I will not see anyone this week so Have fun on me,   BTW Todd is there a Phil WOD, just wondering.

CrossFit games are here!!

live.crossfit.com

Phil’s Kick-Ass Corner

Ok Todd I will comply, plus I think your right.  So Yesterday I Did Jackie for the 1st time and trust me she is a mean #@*$(!.  I did better on not eating sugar/sweetener but I need to add Fish Oil to my diet because that will up my daily goal percentage.  I hit 40% again yesterday but I felt like I did better, whatever.  I will destroy today. 

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Small Testimony
4th of July I went to Cedar Point with my family and the first thing I noticed was I did not have to fight to get into my seat belt on the kids rides.  That changed my day and help me enjoy cedar point that much more.  Thank you Todd for continuing to push me and motivate me to do better. Small but significant way that CrossFit LifeSport has changed my life (to the better.)

Fat Man Corner

Set my goals today for Labor Day.   Drum Roll please……….  By labor day I will be able to stretch down and touch my toes.  Sounds stupid to most but I haven’t been able too in years.  I will also bench press 300 lbs, now that will be a true achievement considering I couldn’t bench 200 lbs in high school.

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Daily Checklist Summary
I only accomplished 40 % today.  I will try and improve for tomorrow.  My nutrition was better today but I still slacked not even good enough to convert to zone measurements.

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WOD – Fight Gone Bad

PR’d Today's workout with 241 from 200.

Hey guys I hope this is encouraging to see a fat guy try, please comment with your nutrition plan for day and any great recipes you used for Paleo.  Everyone can benefit from this.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Fatty,

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Fat Man Corner

Working with Todd I am going to start posting my nutrition and all around lifestyle choices on his blog.  I am going to try to do this everyday but we will see how it goes.  First and foremost you will get honesty, if I mess up you will know about it.  So lets start, I have been messing up and eating like a real pig, I won’t get into it but trust me I can be a pig when I want too.  So today sucked but tomorrow will be better.  Until then Good Night.

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Daily LifeSport checklists are here!!

If you haven't gotten your LifeSport health and wellness checklist yet make sure you ask for one, go make yourself some copies, and see if you can earn a score of  "10" everyday.  See you at the gym!   :)

sugar=sugar=sugar

from our friends at "whole 9"....
Sugar = Sugar = Sugar
We got the idea for this post in the middle of our SnoRidge CrossFit workshop. We were about an hour into the afternoon, and Dallas was talking about how (and why) sugar and artificial sweeteners make you less healthy. That led to a discussion of all the sneaky ways big business, marketing campaigns and advertisers find to appease the sugar tantrums in all of us. Which prompted one attendee to ask, “Do you have a comprehensive list of sugars somewhere on your site? A way to identify the different forms of sugar we may see in a list of product ingredients?”



Huh. Well, no, we didn’t… but that was an awesome idea, so now we do.



Today’s post is dedicated to calling out all of the sneaky ways SUGAR may try to hide in the foods you eat, and shining a light on the misleading claims that are made in support of one form of sugar or another. They (the high fructose corn syrup people, the agave people, the Stevia people) claim because a sugar is “natural” or “low on the glycemic index” or “non-nutritive” that it’s somehow healthy for us. On top of that, they sneak it in under the guise of a label that sounds vaguely plant-like and harmless, or in plain sight under its scientific name, easy to overlook because you just plain don’t know what it is. The truth? Sugar is sugar is sugar, regardless of the form it may take or the claims it might make. And on no planet does added sugar ever make you healthier.



Below is a list of the most commonly employed sneaky ways “they” find to sweeten the foods we eat. Don’t be fooled. Educate yourself, read your labels and avoid regular consumption of products with added sugar, in any form.



Just Plain Sugar



______ Sugar (brown sugar, cane sugar, raw sugar, beet sugar, confectioner’s sugar, etc.)

______ Syrup (high fructose corn syrup, malt syrup, refiner’s syrup, rice syrup, etc.)

Science-y Names for Sugar



Dextrose

Disaccharide

Fructose

Glucose

Galactose

Lactose

Maltodextrin

Maltose

Monosaccharide

Polysaccharide

Ribose

Saccharose

Sucrose

“Natural” Sugars



Agave Nectar

Date sugar

(Evaporated) Cane juice

Fruit juice*

Honey

Maple Syrup

Molasses

Rice Malt (extract)

(Sweet) Sorghum

Treacle

*Admittedly, it can be hard to know where to stop in your quest to remove added sugar from your diet. Fruit juice is basically just sugar, which is why we’re including it here. Does that mean your apple juice sweetened chicken sausage is out? That’s your call. We’re just here to present the information – what you do with it is up to you.



Artificial (Non-Nutritive) Sweeteners



Aspartame

Acesulfame-K/Potassium

Equal

Nutra-Sweet

Saccharin

Splenda

Stevia

Sucralose

SweetLeaf

Sweet ‘n Low

Truvia

Sugar Alcohols



Arabitol

Dulcitol

Erythritol

Glycol

Glycerol

Hydrogenated Starch Hydrosylate (HSH)

Iditol

Isomalt

Lactitol

Maltitol

Mannitol

Polyglycitol

Ribitol

Sorbitol

Threitol

Xylitol

Neanderthals

http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthal-hormones-strong-arms.html

interesting article brought to my attention by the lovely, talented, and strong Mary Long

...most scientists agree the neanderthals were wiped out by our ancestors however i swear i have personally met a few!

Get your LifeSport on!

At CrossFit LifeSport today we will be getting our heavy deadlifts + "Annie" on!


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saturday... game on!

Come out and play! Business as usual at Lifesport Fitness saturday NOON "team life match" workout... come experience fitness as a sport! FREE for all newcomers! www.crossfitlifesport.com

go organic!

Baby carrots John? Now you are rousing my ire purposely! :)

The gym is open saturday till 2 and monday as normal

today i have to... compile a list of emails (a boring, on-going project), workout, read, learn, teach, eat better than yest, and talk to my new roomie about moving in arrangements, get my truck from the shop, clean the gym a little, hook my new printer up, and chat with my counterpart in Seattle. phew! ...feel like i am forgetting something...