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Paleo Recipe: Guacamole Deviled Eggs

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Ingredients 4 eggs, hard-boiled 1 avocado 2 tsp hot sauce 1 tsp lemon juice sea salt (optional) freshly ground black pepper Instructions Peel hard-boiled eggs and cut in half length-wise.  Spoon out yolks into a small bowl. Mash yolks with avocado, hot sauce and lemon juice.  Season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper [...]

Games Open Workout 12.3

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Scaling in CrossFit through substitutions or modifications of movements, rather than adjusting weight or reps, often serves a couple of purposes.  First, it’s a path to eventually performing the full movement as prescribed.  Second, they’re often just bad enough that you’ll want to do the full RX (prescribed) as soon as possible.  Push-ups with hands [...]

CrossFit vs Steady State Cardio

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CFJ: What about aerobic conditioning? Coach Glassman: I know you’re messing with me– trying to get me going. Look, why is it that a 20-minute bout on the stationary bike at a heart rate of 165 bpm is held by the public to be good cardiovascular work, whereas a mixed-mode workout keeping athletes between 165 and 195 bpm for [...]

Can you do 100 perfect pushups?

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Mastery of the basic, entry-level “P.E. push-up” is a prerequisite to the handstand push-up. Very few people have achieved mastery of the push-up though many of you think you have. The test is simple: can you do 100 perfect push-ups? The standard for perfection, though simple, disqualifies nearly everyone. A perfect push-up is slow and deep with a body absolutely perfectly [...]

Partner Workouts

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Tuesday, January, 17, 2012 Paleo Challenge Blog (Day 9) The fear of embarassment is enough to push us to our limit. Partner workouts provide a fun and challengenging way to compete. Compare it to sports that require teamwork as the basis for success. The joy and camaraderie that comes from it is unparallelled. Our partner [...]

Functional Movement + Variety + Intensity= CrossFit

PALEO CHALLENGE BLOG (DAY 5) Friday, January, 13, 2012 SicFit: 25 Ways CrossFit is changing Fitness and Changing the World 13. Play.  There is a focus on evolving, learning new skills, experimenting, and applying our fitness to enjoy life more, or at least suck less at life. Training in the gym is about living life [...]

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Stamina as defined in the 10 General Physical Skill of Crossfit states that stamina is the ability of the body to process, store, deliver, and utilize energy. When that system is compromised so is stamina via muscle contraction. Ironically the only way to improve stamina is to push the envelop during training. Today is your [...]

Friday, December 23, 2011

Skill: Inversions Conditioning: 20 – 15 – 10 – 5 Back Squat (135, 95) Toes To Bar Interesting tidbit: Guacamole originated from the Aztecs…gotta love them and the guac!  Below are nutrition benefits  of avocados which should help persuade to try eating them more often (try it for one week and see how you feel)… [...]