Thursday 30 April 2015
May 1, 2015 – Fitness
Friday 150501
Rest Day
Roxy at SnoRidge CrossFit.
"Live. Fate Loves the Fearless" - CrossFit Journal [video]
"Comma Queen: The Lay of the Lie/Lay Land," by Mary Norris, The New Yorker.
Live. Fate Loves the Fearless
CrossFit saved Miranda Oldroyd’s life—literally.
In June 2012, the CrossFit Level 1 Seminar Staff member was involved in a terrible car accident. She remembers it vividly and wrote about it on her blog.
“I never lost consciousness,” she says, “but I was immediately in a ton of pain. I remember saying out loud, ‘It’s OK, it’s OK, you’re fine.’”
When she arrived at the emergency room, Oldroyd complained of significant neck pain.
“Several times I mentioned, ‘My neck hurts, my neck hurts,’” she recalls. “I asked if I needed an X-ray. (The doctor) seemed to think that it was just whiplash. They gave me a soft collar … and gave me a prescription for pain medicine and sent me on my way.”
The 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games were quickly approaching, and Oldroyd was excited to work for CrossFit Media as an on-camera personality. She worked the entire week interviewing athletes and hugging fans, all the while unaware of how bad her neck injury actually was.
When she got home from Carson, California, Oldroyd received life-changing news: Initially misdiagnosed, she was told she had been living with a broken neck for two weeks. Radiologist Dr. Will Wright cites Oldroyd’s fitness as the reason she made it through those weeks.
“She’s lucky she was a CrossFitter,” he says.
Oldroyd says several doctors told her the strength of the muscles around her neck actually prevented paralysis or death.
After spinal fusion, Oldroyd was told she could do activities that didn’t cause pain, so she was training again three days after surgery, using the movements that were available to her and chasing her dream of making it to the CrossFit Games.
“It’s a beautiful stubbornness about her,” says Oldroyd’s husband, Tyson.
In “Live. Fate Loves the Fearless,” filmmaker Heber Cannon tells the story of Miranda’s phenomenal recovery from an accident that could have claimed her life.
Video by Heber Cannon.
26min 24sec
Additional audio: CrossFit Radio Episode 274 by Justin Judkins, published May 3, 2013.
Wednesday 29 April 2015
April 30, 2015 – Performance
If you're finding a lull in your training try mixing things up before you quit ...try #crossfit …
If you're finding a lull in your training try mixing things up before you quit ...try #crossfit
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#training #workouts
Thursday 150430
Deadlift 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps
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David Howe at CrossFit West Seattle.
"The Back Squat" - [video]
Tuesday 28 April 2015
April 29, 2015 – Performance and Fitness
The Hip and Athletic Performance
Zachary Long takes a closer look at hip anatomy and identifies common dysfunctions that can limit CrossFit athletes.
The hips serve as the primary generator of force in the majority of movements performed in athletics, and this statement remains true for the exercises most commonly performed in CrossFit.
The pelvis, lumbar spine and core play a vital role in stabilizing the trunk to allow force to be transferred through the body. Despite the importance of the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex, dysfunction of muscle activation and mobility is very common.
These dysfunctions can greatly decrease performance, and it is therefore important to identify common impairments seen in these areas and better understand the hips’ relationship with the pelvis and lumbar spine.
Monday 27 April 2015
April 28, 2015 – Performance
Check out our latest review - We take a look at the #reebok #zpump but are they any good for …
Check out our latest review - We take a look at the #reebok #zpump but are they any good for #crossFit ?
http://www.dsstuff.com/reebok-zpump-fusion-review/
Watch our Reebok Zpump Fusion Review video or simply check out the text version including photos of the new shoe.
04/27/2015
CrossFit Mayhem – CrossFit
Bench Press (7×2 @80% 1×3 @80% (Complete a set Every 1:30))
Metcon (Time)
6 rounds
50 Double unders
10 Strict HSPU
5 Deadlifts (365/225)
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Sunday 26 April 2015
April 27, 2015 – Performance & Fitness
2015 CrossFit Games Tickets on Sale April 29th!
Friday 24 April 2015
Saturday 150425
2015 Masters Qualifier Event 3
2 rounds for time of:
1,000-meter row
65-lb. thrusters, 50 reps
30 chest-to-bar pull-ups
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Bo Jones, U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division.
"Fear Factor" - CrossFit Journal [article]
Check out my week 14 #HIIT workout and if you enjoyed it please check out all the other weeks he…
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Try the G.I. Jane wod - this workout of the day is hell if you hate burpees! http://www.dsstuff.co…
Try the G.I. Jane wod - this workout of the day is hell if you hate burpees!
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Yesterday I posted a reebok offer, just after I posted it I received a email form reebok saying the offer wouldn't start until today so it's now live for anyone wanting to get the shoes at discount price. Check out my last post.
We are aiming to compile the biggest list of crossfit workouts on the planet starting with the official list set by CrossFit
Wednesday 22 April 2015
April 23, 2015 – Competition
The Jason Nolan Memorial Workout
Tuesday 21 April 2015
Wednesday 150422
Ironman in Waterworld
Years of being told to “hydrate, hydrate, hydrate” caused first-time Ironman athlete Dan Fontaine to overlook the dangers of overhydration.
He had been training for his first Ironman for 12 months. Dan Fontaine thought he had done everything right.
“The only problem was my plan had a big flaw,” 32-year-old Fontaine said almost five years later.
It never occurred to Fontaine that drinking too much during the race would dilute his blood-sodium levels to the point that he would vomit violently and be left on the side of the road, unable to continue for hours.
Fontaine was never officially diagnosed with exercise-associated hyponatremia (EAH), a potentially life-threatening condition characterized by dangerously low blood-sodium levels. But he has since researched what happened to him and has confidently deduced he was hyponatremic in 2010 at an Ironman race in Penticton, British Columbia.
An athlete who drinks too much during exercise runs the risk of diluting blood-sodium levels to below the normal range of 135 to 145 millimoles per liter. Symptoms of EAH include fatigue, nausea, vomiting and seizures. The most serious cases have led to fatal swelling of the lungs or the brain. Damage from brain swelling—exercise-associated hyponatremic encephalopathy (EAHE)—has taken the lives of at least 12 otherwise-healthy people since 1981.
Although Fontaine couldn’t pinpoint why he chose to chug water when he wasn’t thirsty, he knows the fear of dehydration was never far from his mind. Advertisements, event organizers, the reading he did and the people he knew kept telling him to drink more, ultimately to his detriment.
Monday 20 April 2015
Upcoming Spring Events (& A Plea For Help!)
Whoops! I just realized that I’ve been announcing my upcoming book signings and appearances only in my weekly email newsletter, and not here on my blog. Sorry! (If you want stay in the loop, be sure to subscribe to my newsletter here.) I actually have a few events coming up in the (very) near future, so let me catch you up in a hurry!
PALO ALTO—MY HOMETOWN! Curious about the food writing biz? Or just want to come meet me and a bunch of my awesomest (yes, that is a word) food writer pals? On Wednesday evening, April 22 (just a couple of days away!), I’ll be on a panel with some of my favorite local cookbook authors discussing today’s evolving food media landscape. My co-panelists are my good friends Emma Christensen and Cheryl Sternman Rule, and our moderator is the wonderful Dianne Jacob. Topics include how to write for an increasingly global (and often mobile-based) audience, how to expand one’s reach, and how to marry the tactile pleasures of food with evolving platforms. Food and drinks will be served, and there’ll be ample amounts of mixing and mingling involved! For more deets and to register, peek over here.
April 21, 2015 – Performance
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Sunday 19 April 2015
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Road to Conviction Episode 5: CrossFit Is the Foundation
While incarcerated, Fletcher Tholin discovered CrossFit. Watch his rehabilitation in this eight-part series.
In Episode 5, Tholin is seven weeks into CrossFit and he’s competing in his first Open competition.
As Tholin works, he explains he’s feeling happier in his life. And of course he’s spending more time at the gym—working on double-unders, repeating Open workouts and continuing to build relationships.
“Practice makes perfect,” he says after completing 50 unbroken double-unders.
Throughout the Open, Tholin’s competitive side comes out. At CrossFit Edwardsville in Glen Carbon, Illinois, athletes are watching the announcement for Week 3. Tholin says he’s hoping for something heavy. He gets his wish: a couplet of increasingly heavier deadlifts and box jumps.
“I feel like I gotta poop, man,” he says after hearing the workout details. “I don’t know if I’m nervous or if I really have to. I don’t know.”
After the announcement, Tholin goes head-to-head with fellow athlete Dan Williams—one of the stronger athletes at the affiliate. Many predict Williams will beat him, but Tholin proves them wrong by completing 133 reps and winning.
While Tholin gets stronger in the gym, he gets stronger in his perseverance to live a positive and happy life.
“CrossFit is the foundation that everything … is built on in my life right now,” he says. “CrossFit gave me the stable foundation to build the positive life that I’m living right now. It gave me hope.”
Video by Gary Roberts and Jordan Shalhoub.
14min 34sec
Additional reading: “Streets to Scholarship” by Andréa Maria Cecil, published Aug. 17, 2014.
Road to Conviction Episode 5: CrossFit Is the Foundation
Saturday 18 April 2015
Sunday 150419
Rest Day
"Jacob's just gotten his first bar muscle-up, and momma and Robbie are perhaps more excited than he is."
- Robin Lerner at CrossFit Bel Air.
CrossFit Video Contest, Third Place:
CrossFit Coalface - [video]
CrossFit Coalface: CrossFit Video Contest
CrossFit Radio Episode 377
On Episode 377 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed two athletes who were at the top of the regional leaderboards in the CrossFit Games Open. Carleen Mathews placed first in the North West, and Christian Lucero was No. 1 in the South West. This episode was webcast on April 15, 2015.
2:18 Best in the North West, Carleen Mathews was also 17th worldwide, putting her in very elite company. The owner of CrossFit Saint Helens in Oregon said her Open performance has given her confidence as she prepares for the West Regional, to be held May 29-31 in Tacoma, Washington. Mathews talked about her work on the mental side of competition and offered advice on choosing a trustworthy coach who can help an athlete prepare for the tough CrossFit Games season. As an affiliate owner and competitor, Mathews explained how she finds balance in her busy life.
12:12 Christian Lucero talked about his results in the Open and described his athletic background. With the South Regional set for May 15-17 in Dallas, Texas, Lucero reflected back to the 2014 South West Regional, where he and several others contracted a debilitating case of the flu and had to drop out of the competition. He explained how last year’s unfortunate results motivated him in 2015. Lucero, a coach at Backcountry CrossFit in Littleton, Colorado, offered some insight into his training as regionals approach, and he said keeping things light and fun helps him prepare for the pressure that will come in less than a month.
