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Thursday 080717
Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:
15 Push-ups
12 Ring dips
115 pound Push-press, 9 reps
Post rounds completed to comments.
Unrestricted low-carb diet wins hands down
Sunscreen and melanoma
How to review your blood test results (via)
Looking for realistic healthy habits to adopt
Food, not nutrients
Courtesy of The Onion
Hooray for 'unrestricted' diets!
5x5 DL
275, 285, 295, 305, 315 (5 x my 1rm!)
Much thanks to Craig for the encouragement. We shared the barbell and his last set was 85# over mine!
Juan, Adam and I went out to for a bite after elements class. Adam was hesitant about going out since he didn't have another shirt aside from his UnderArmour (we tried to convince him to wear the pink GymBoss t-shirt instead, but he declined). Either way, it paid off since it earned him a "bigger-muscles-than-me" discount from the guy selling rap CDs in Times Square. See, Adam? There's no reason to feel self-conscious!
Here is the original study which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (way too long to read now):
http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20080716/diet-debate-3-top-plans-go-toe-to-toe
But from reading the Mark's Daily Apple article (nice summation) and its comments, it seems there were some flaws....
But anyhow, thanks to the Israelis for doing this study!! As an aside, in Israel it is quite common to eat 2-3 eggs daily; no one is really that concerned over the cholesterol from eggs!
a bite? yeah thats an understatement.
As expected, Dean Ornish wrote a piece questioning the New England Journal study.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/146641
i just ate three hard boiled eggs.
Thanks for the link, and good to interest in the study!
sliders
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/dining/16slide.html
I sort of have an objection to the idea of expensive sliders. It makes little sense to me to be paying at least as much as you would for a regular burger, but you're getting f*cked by a worse meat-to-bread ratio.
burgers in Paris
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/dining/16paris.html?em&ex=1216440000&en=bcf5f88b7d1a77cf&ei=5087%0A
"“Another thing I’ve noticed is that the muscled guys order the boeuf double with bacon, egg and fries, and a Diet Coke,” he said. “Then they share a cheesecake. They don’t want to gain weight.”
Also, he explained, Parisians don’t really understand about drinking a milkshake with the burger. They order it as dessert."
we ate parisian style then. hmmm, fancy.
NYC Urbanathlon is sold out, again. I know some of you (Kurt?) may have already signed up. For anybody else, a Brooklyn CF'er proposes we organize our own little urban race.
http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=34519
Ewen,
That sounds like a great idea. I am signed up for the actual race (I signed up two days after registration opened to make sure I got in), but would love some run specific training sometime in August or September.
I will try to post more ideas in the related thread you linked to.
i got up today feeling amazing for the first time in weeks. I got up, went to pick up my refund deposit from my last apt (hooray!), then went and paid the IRS the money i owe them (since my wages were being levyed from work) then went to mid-city to do the WOD. My second round i realized i ran around all day with all this enegry from feeling so good and hadn't eaten anything. Good time to lose gas :( did the 3rd round and stopped. I still feel good though :)
15 push ups
12 stable dips
9 65# push press
3 rds
This wod SUCKED.
3 rounds + 3 push presses
pushups
ring dips off a box
95lb push press
additional strength work
backsquat
135x4(warmup)
185x5
195x5
200x5
200x5
200x5
135x20
Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:
15 Push-ups
12 Ring dips
115 pound Push-press, 9 reps
7 rounds plus 5 dips as rx'd
This WOD did suck. My shoulders feel... wait I don't feel much of anything right now. Come to think of it they feel pretty much dead. This has been quite a week as far as the push muscles are concerned.
And yes, "unrestricted diets RULE!!!"
4.5 rds -- made sure full range of motion for everything. This thing hurt.
4 rounds and 15/12/2 for me
at the BBB
4 rounds, 8 pushups.
I'm not sure what sort of dips I did - they involved my hands on a box and my feet on a stack of tiles.
i wanna call it the ghetto jesus dip.
6 rounds + 4 push ups (bar from floor)
Yes, this WOD was horrible. Cleaning the bar from the floor didn't make it any better...
Ewen - I am in on a CF urban race. Lets get it done!
3 Rounds + 15 pushups + 8 ring dips