"Diane"
21 - 15 - 9 rep rounds for time:
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The WOD - WED, 30SEPT09
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The WOD - MON, 28SEPT09
4 rounds for time:
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Tired of arguing with those who advocate the Vegetarian lifestyle? Special thanks to the athletes at CrossFit Balboa for this next installment in a series of articles addressing the propaganda surrounding Vegetarianism.
Debunking Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism Myth #3 - "Soybeans are an adequate protein substitutes for meat and dairy products."
It is typical for vegans and vegetarians in the Western world to rely on various soy products for their protein needs. There is little doubt that the billion-dollar soy industry has profited immensely from the anti-cholesterol, anti-meat gospel of current nutritional thought. Whereas, not so long ago, soy was an Asian food primarily used as a condiment, now a variety of processed soy products proliferate in the North American market. While the traditionally fermented soy foods of miso, tamari, tempeh and natto are definitely healthful in measured amounts, the hyper-processed soy "foods" that most vegetarians consume are not.
Non-fermented soybeans and foods made with them are high in phytic acid, an anti-nutrient that binds to minerals in the digestive tract and carries them out of the body. Vegetarians are known for their tendencies to mineral deficiencies, especially of zinc and it is the high phytate content of grain and legume based diets that is to blame. Though several traditional food preparation techniques such as soaking, sprouting, and fermenting can significantly reduce the phytate content of grains and legumes, such methods are not commonly known about or used by modern peoples, including vegetarians. This places them (and others who eat a diet rich in whole grains) at a greater risk for mineral deficiencies.
Processed soy foods are also rich in trypsin inhibitors, which hinder protein digestion. Textured vegetable protein (TVP), soy "milk" and soy protein powders, popular vegetarian meat and milk substitutes, are entirely fragmented foods made by treating soybeans with high heat and various alkaline washes to extract the beans' fat content or to neutralize their potent enzyme inhibitors. These practices completely denature the beans' protein content, rendering it very hard to digest. MSG, a neurotoxin, is routinely added to TVP to make it taste like the various foods it imitates.
On a purely nutritional level, soybeans, like all legumes, are deficient in cysteine and methionine, vital sulphur-containing amino acids, as well as tryptophan, another essential amino acid. Furthermore, soybeans contain no vitamins A or D, required by the body to assimilate and utilize the beans' proteins. It is probably for this reason that Asian cultures that do consume soybeans usually combine them with fish or fish broths (abundant in fat-soluble vitamins) or other fatty foods.
The WOD - FRI, 25SEPT09
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 rep rounds for time:
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The WOD - THUR, 24SEPT09
4 rounds for time:
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The WOD - WED, 23SEPT09
AMRAP for 20 min
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The WOD - MON, 21SEPT09
Alternating Double Tabata
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Thanks to eveyone that participated in Saturday's Olympic Weightlifting Clinic! A special thanks to Coach Newton and Coach Lane for packing so much learning into one Day!!
Tired of arguing with those who advocate the Vegetarian lifestyle? Special thanks to the athletes at CrossFit Balboa for this second installment in a series of articles addressing the propaganda surrounding Vegetarianism.
Debunking Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism Myth #2 - "Vegetarians Live Longer and Have More Energy and Endurance than Meat-Eaters"
I have heard the argument from vegetarians and followers of the China Study
Diet (aka Tony Gonzalez of the Kansas City Chiefs) that meat is poison and
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In scientific literature, there are surprisingly few studies done on vegetarian longevity. Russell Smith, PhD, in his massive review study on heart disease, showed that as animal product consumption increased among some study groups, death rates actually decreased! Such results were not obtained among vegetarian subjects. For example, in a study published by Burr and Sweetnam in 1982, analysis of mortality data revealed that, although vegetarians had a slightly (.11%) lower rate of heart disease than non-vegetarians, the all-cause death rate was much higher for vegetarians.
Despite claims that studies have shown that meat consumption increased the risk for heart disease and shortened lives, the authors of those studies actually found the opposite. For example, in a 1984 analysis of a 1978 study of vegetarian Seventh Day Adventists, HA Kahn concluded,
Although our results add some substantial facts to the diet-disease question, we recognize how remote they are from establishing, for example, that men who frequently eat meat or women who rarely eat salad are thereby shortening their lives.
A similar conclusion was reached by D.A. Snowden. Despite these startling dmissions, the studies nevertheless concluded the exact opposite and urged people to reduce animal foods from their diets.
Further, both of these studies threw out certain dietary data that clearly showed no connection between eggs, cheese, whole milk, and fat attached to meat (all high fat and cholesterol foods) and heart disease. Dr. Smith commented,
In effect the Kahn [and Snowden] study is yet another example of negative results which are massaged and misinterpreted to support the politically correct assertions that vegetarians live longer lives.
It is usually claimed that meat-eating peoples have a short life span, but the Aborigines of Australia, who traditionally eat a diet rich in animal products, are known for their longevity (at least before colonization by (Europeans). Within Aboriginal society, there is a special caste of the elderly. Obviously, if no old people existed, no such group would have existed. In his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Dr. Price has numerous photographs of elderly native peoples from around the world. Explorers such as Vilhjalmur Stefansson reported great longevity among the Innuit (again, before colonization).
Similarly, the Russians of the Caucasus mountains live to great ages on a diet of fatty pork and whole raw milk products. The Hunzas, also known for their robust health and longevity, eat substantial portions of goat's milk which has a higher saturated fat content than cow's milk (86). In contrast, the largely vegetarian Hindus of southern India have the shortest life-spans in the world, partly because of a lack of food, but also because of a distinct lack of animal protein in their diets. H. Leon Abrams' comments are instructive here:
Vegetarians often maintain that a diet of meat and animal fat leads to a pre-mature death. Anthropological data from primitive societies do not support such contentions.
With regards to endurance and energy levels, Dr Price, from the Weston Price Group, traveled around the world in the 1920s and 1930s, investigating native diets. Without exception, he found a strong correlation between diets rich in animal fats, robust health and athletic ability. Special foods for Swiss athletes, for example, included bowls of fresh, raw cream. In Africa, Dr Price discovered that groups whose diets were rich in fatty meats and fish, and organ meats like liver, consistently carried off the prizes in athletic contests, and that meat-eating tribes always dominated tribes whose diets were largely vegetarian.
The WOD - FRI, 18SEPT09
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'GLOBO' Kettlebells????
Handstand Push-up Variations...[wmv]
The WOD - THUR, 17SEPT09
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 rep rounds for time:
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Skills &Amp; Drills
Hollow Rock 5 X 10 sec
Hollow Position, Gymnastics Cert, Roger Harrell ...[wmv]
The WOD - WED 16SEPT09
"Run, Push, Swing"
4 rounds for time:
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Abs - 40 GHD sit ups
Playing With Ring Pushups(Nicole)...[wmv]
Olympic Weightlifting Clinic this Saturday. . .
Just a reminder to everyone that we are hosting an Oly lifting clinic this Saturday from 7:30 AM to 4 PM, so we will NOT have our 10-11AM class
The WOD - MON, 14SEPT09
'Crossfit Total'
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CrossFit Total Explained / CrossFit Total (Nicole & Zac) [wmv]
Tired of arguing with those who advocate the Vegetarian lifestyle? Special thanks to the athletes at CrossFit Balboa for this first installment in a series of articles addressing the propaganda surrounding Vegetarianism.
Debunking Vegetarianism
"I am starting a week long look at the problems and dangers associated with being Vegetarian. Personally, I follow a Paleo Diet and classify myself as a Meatarian. I find it to be very healthy and rewarding both physically and for performance.
VegetarianismMyth # 1 - The Human Body Was Not Designed for Meat Consumption
Some vegetarian groups claim that since humans possess grinding teeth like herbivorous animals and longer intestines than carnivorous animals, this proves the human body is better suited for vegetarianism. This argument fails to note several human physiological features which clearly indicate a design for animal product consumption.
First and foremost is our stomach's production of hydrochloric acid, something not found in herbivores. HCL activates protein-splitting enzymes. Further, the human pancreas manufactures a full range of digestive enzymes to handle a wide variety of foods, both animal and vegetable. Further, Dr. Walter Voegtlin's in-depth comparison of the human digestive system with that of the dog, a carnivore, and a sheep, a herbivore, clearly shows that we are closer in anatomy to the carnivorous dog than the herbivorous sheep.
While humans may have longer intestines than animal carnivores, they are not as long as herbivores; nor do we possess multiple stomachs like many herbivores, nor do we chew cud. Our physiology definitely indicates a mixed feeder, or an omnivore, much the same as our relatives, the mountain gorilla and chimpanzee who all have been observed eating small animals and, in some cases, other primates..
The WOD - WED, 9SEPT09
Five rounds for time of:
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Skills &Amp; Drills
25 HSPU
Walking Lunges...[wmv]
The WOD - MON, 7SEPT09
Labor Day
Enjoy your Holiday. . .3,2,1 Get Some!!
"Murph"
For time:
If you've got a twenty pound vest or body armor, wear it.
Start and finish with a mile run, and partition the pull-ups,
push-ups, and squats as needed.
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A soldier accepts responsibility for the safety of
the body politic of which he is a member,
defending it, if need be, with his life.
The civilian does not."
Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein
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