First, I found a great series by Andy Deas on Loving/Hating CrossFit. For those of you who have not heard of Andy, he is the co-host of Robb Wolf’s podcast: The Paleo Solution.
I’ve been messing around with my training schedule lately. I’ve generally found that I’m sore pretty much all the time. [...]
In general, I think the online Paleo community is too hard on The New Evolution Diet. I experienced bafflement at a few things, and they are all on this list at Melissa McEwen’s site. In particular, throwing out egg yolks is, I think, ludicrous. Choline is a critical nutrient, and it’s all [...]
I have to say that “The Bear Complex” sounds like something a gay male friend would say he has. Come on, I know at least one of you thought that when you saw the title!
It is actually a sequence of five lifts [video link of a woman doing a demo]:
Power Clean
Front Squat
Push Press or [...]
For more about burpees, read what Cosmopolitan Primal Girl has to say.
Long story short, they suck, they are hard[warning: music at that link], but I did do ‘em yesterday in a WOD. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I guess.
I’ve been doing CrossFit for a while now. In fact, I completed a Level 1 Certification Seminar this weekend. The only reason I don’t know if I passed the exam is because they had a large (and frankly inexcusable) IT failure, and we have to wait for our results from HQ. Yes, [...]