Gotta love Annie.
(via willwodforfitness)
Doug McGuff, MD - - Medical Proof for the Caveman Diet, “The 21 Convention”
Some pretty interesting stuff from an MD on the virtues of eating paleo. It’s a long lecture, and he really goes into the physiology and science of the paleo diet and high-intensity exercise. I’m not sure I can comply with his views on exercise/recovery because I love the high of long, hard workouts on consecutive days. However, I’ll admit that his break down of glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity is spot on. Nutrition segment begins around the 1hr mark.
Dr. McGuff is the author of “Body By Science” . I just ordered it; otherwise I would give you a review.
The Naked Crossfitter vs Crossfit HQ: Part 1
Crossfit HQ lashes back at those that conjecture that decathletes gold medalists would perform well at the games…The Naked Crossfiter rebuts, preying on whichever dumbasses at CFHQ continue to proliferate this kind of garbage on the interwebs. I happen to agree with the author’s frequent objections to CFHQ’s preposterous claims, primarily that the top CF games athletes are indeed fit, but to call them the greatest athletes or most fit individuals on the planet is probably overreaching.
“Let me just throw a few things out there:
1) What the fuck does Tom Pappas have to prove to the CrossFit community? The man is a phenomenal athlete, period. His ability to do burpees doesn’t have any bearing on his athleticism because his athleticism has already been proven beyond any doubts.
2) Let’s make fair comparisons here, and not fall into this small minded trap of shadowy argument methods. The Games today are not the same competition they were 5 years ago. I know handfuls of people who would have done amazingly well at the first few CrossFit Games, but aren’t competitive today. Can Tom Pappas win the 2012 CrossFit Games? Yea…not really. But a better question is “would any of the best CrossFitters in the world win the 2012 Olympic Decathlon?” and the answer is a resounding “they wouldn’t even come close”. Maybe that’s because the Decathlon has sport specific movements like the shot put, hurdles, or pole vault. But if you try to argue that CrossFit doesn’t have sport specific traits, you’re kidding yourself.”
Read the rest of The Naked Crossfitter’s post HERE.
Kelly Starrett breaks down the finer points of the snatch for Crossfit Games Open WOD 12.2
Annie Thorisdottir, CF Games Champ 2011
POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE
If you get a warm tingling feeling from watching this video, it tells me you’ve accomplished something great in your life. Not many people in my life have understood my life to punish my body and persevere through challenging physical punishment and reward on a daily basis. But, if you felt that tingling feeling…you and I have something in common.
Exercise was important to paleolithic man, but he wasn’t doing high-intensity training every day or even every other day. Hunter gatherers weren’t eating a lot (another swing and a miss for Epic Meal Time) so they had to conserve their energy. Don’t get me wrong, occasionally, they’d be forced to fight for their lives against predators and probably lift some heavy shit. They probably also traveled long distances at times, so thumbs up for walking while carrying stuff.
If you are going to again fall back onto the shoulders of evolutionary biology, you can’t justify training like the Crossfit Games Athletes (4-6 hours per day) and call it functional evolutionarily speaking. This could be why studies are now popping up with data showingincreased risk of heart complications in people that have been distance running for most of their lives. We’re only becoming smart about this now that we can collect data from people that have been running long distances for the past 50 years (“jogging” became a sport thanks to Bill Bowerman in the 1960s). The same could be said for everybody that lives off of the high that you get from frequent high intensity exercise. I’m guilty myself, having trained for an Ironman and doing Crossfit consistently for the past few years. As a long-term mechanism of achieving fitness, training at such high intensity is not a healthy choice, a sentiment shared by Annie Thorisdottir, 2011 Crossfit Games Champ.
Art De Vany, in his great Essay on Evolutionary Fitness summed it nicely: “Think of a lion or jaguar. They are muscular and lean and spend long periods in languid rest and brief, highly intense periods in the hunt. Paleolithic man needed rest, and so do you.”
13-year old Abbey Watson is breaking world weightlifting records. How is this possible? “I think the reason Abbey is lifting weight that surpasses adults is because she‘s never been told she can’t do it.” - her coach, Jonathan Sabar
Jason Statham - yeah, the guy from Transporter - trained for a while with Logan Hood, a former Navy Seal and owner of Epoch Training Systems. Check out a typical week of Statham’s workout HERE. It’s certainly nothing to scoff at. Not one bit.
Epoch is located in L.A. But apparently they only open their doors to people that are serious about meeting their workout goals. An email to Hood will likely evolve into an exchange like this one.
Ahh! Somebody beat me to it…Shi%t Crossfitters Say.
I'm a med student, researcher, and athlete. This blog is an attempt to focus the curiosity and intrigue that I've encountered in my pursuit of happiness for myself, my planet, and society through food, sport, adventure, and love. I am the change I wish to see in the world, and I implore you to be the same.
