Nicole in the good hands of Dutch, EC and Shane.
The following CrossFitters have expressed interest in this weekend's SBK Rock Climbing outing. Please confirm your spot and if you can drive by emailing Margie@crossfitsouthbrooklyn.com by Thursday. Theres still plenty of time to sign up if you're interested, it's going to be a blast!
Jeremy
Brian
David
Margie
Jenna
Dan R
Brandy
Vadim
Olga
Malcom
Laurel
Julianna
Stephanie
Sameer
Bethany
Gabe
Adam S
Charmel
Anne
Rob
Daily Red Meat Increases Chances of Dying Early Washington Post
Why your Doctor is Wrong about Meat Life Spotlight
David says
Here is a picture from where we are going:http://climbrockclub.com/gallery/view-image/275/14/
Brian says
Remember:”The higher you get, the higher you get!”
stephanie says
Can I burpee in my harness?
Sameer Parekh says
woot. Backsquats got up easy today. Shorted the ROM a wee bit on my last 205, but my 210 set was -solid-. PR by 15 pounds. I am certain my 215 1RM will eat dust.
3-3-3-3-3 175/185/195/205/210
Excited for climbering!
Sameer Parekh says
note:
Get hold of two cardboard boxes of different sizes and put a brick in each one. Check they weigh the same, then get somebody to lift them and tell you which is the heavier. The vast majority of people will say that the smaller box is heavier, even though it isn’t, and will continue to maintain that it is even after looking inside both boxes and lifting them several times. … Curiously, experiments show that even though people initially use greater force to lift the larger box than the smaller one, on subsequent lifts they unconsciously equalise the amount of force they use to lift them. Despite their bodies apparently “knowing” that the boxes weigh the same, their minds still perceive the smaller box as being heavier. …
[Someone] showed that we can unlearn the size-weight illusion. He got volunteers to spend several days manipulating boxes that became lighter the larger they were. At the end of the process he found that their size-weight illusion was reversed. … This is good evidence that the illusion arises out of experience of the world, where larger objects tend to weigh more than smaller objects of the same kind.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/03/the-eyes-weigh.html
Shane says
Which is why we people think David weighs less than me.
Nice PR Sameer!!
Brian says
Great Morning workout.155/165/175/180/185felt tired and not so strong.
metcon worked me20 Double unders15 Burpeesmax rounds in 10 min.3 + 20 Du, 6 burpees
Shoulders are super tired now.
gabrus says
AM workoutBack Squat 5×3225/245/275/290/300x2couldn’t get a third at 300.
Did the AMRAP (again)15 burpees/60 Singles4 rounds and 5 burpees
Accessory WorkRing Rows 3×835 more burpees5 singles of pull ups
Jack says
Had a great wod yesterday,AMRAP 10 1 arm KB swings(33lbs), 16 situps, 60 on the jump rope, completed 6 rounds. The situps are really hard. This was a sub for the prescribed wod, cause of my left shoulder prob. Went to a chiropractor yesterday(thanks David McG)he says that if I spend the requisite amount of $ in his office, I’ll be back in the game soon. It’s funny with doctors, you go in, they treat you, you fill out forms, and it’s not till you finish the 1st appointment that his receptionist tells you how much you owe. Imagine going to the mechanic to fix your car, and he 1st does the work, then you find out what it’s costing. I’m in the wrong business. But seriously, he seems like he knows his stuff,my shoulder does feel a bit better, and I’m glad David McG gets his 10% referral fee:) Life is good.
paul says
I knew that looked familiar sameer, I am a big overcoming bias fan also.
Mike says
I thought for sure that the comments page would have lit up with red meat comments already, but no matter. In regards to the two links posted above, I would like to address and concede to a few of the arguments that the “pro-meat” author has stated. (I guess I find myself cautiously on the “anti-red meat” side [which says it can be eaten in moderation maybe 2-3 times a week] in the same way I find myself on the side of those that warn about climate change. There are obviously many factors to tease out, and collecting all the data has proved very difficult, but an overwhelming amount of it has shown some serious side effects of eating lots red meat. So shouldn’t we err on the side of caution?)
The points that the pro-meat article and many pro-meat advocates give are:1) processed/preserved meat is what’s really bad for you2)our nation’s ridiculously high intake of sugar/carbohydrates is the biggest nutritional health problem.
Both of these are TRUE, but just because we’re killing ourselves with preservatives and carbs doesn’t mean we aren’t also damaging our blood vessels with the excess cholesterol that comes with red meat intake.
And that cholesterol increase, espcecially in the short-term is what is doing the largest damage to our cardiovascular system. (Yes, we all know that there is good cholesterol- HDL and bad cholesterol LDL, VLDL, AND Triglycerides, but increased red meat almost invariably causes an increase in the latter type, and you never see someone with really elevated cholesterol [say, above 300]that is only due to increased HDL) The LDL can get into damaged endothelial cells (the cells that line our blood vessels) and cause atherosclerotic plaques. These plaques are the basis of most types of heart disease, including stroke, heart attack, peripheral vascular disease, etc.
As for its link to increased levels of cancer, I won’t try to piece together a direct pathological link. After all, almost all of our understanding of carcinogens come from epidemiological studies, not from the basic investigation of pathology.
Two final notes:1)I’m always skeptical of arguments that point to a whole society that tends to eat a certain way, and is very healthy regardless. The fact of the matter is, we are not a part of that society. We differ in behavior, genetics, environmental factors, and in a whole host of other ways. When you want to decide if you, the consumer should eat a particular way, it is only logical that you would want to look at the effects of how others in the same set of circumstances fared, when faced with the same diet choices. When you attempt to compare the risks and benefits of one factor between two societies, you have to somehow tease out all of the other differences between a normal member of our society and a normal member of the other one. This makes the task of interpreting the effects of our one variable (red meat) nearly impossible. The advantage of this National Cancer Institute study is that it uses Americans and that it statistically removed as many other factors such as exercise, smoking habits, drinking habits, and other dietary intakes.
2. One of the critical flaws of modeling one’s diet on the paleolithic man, is that because of his shorter life span, the paleolithic man did not have to worry about later-in-life diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
I’ve got more, but I think that’s enough for now.
Don says
Holy smokes, a moderate, well-reasoned case for something…ANYthing, is a treat these days. Thanks Mike.
Jeremy says
Got a workout in at Crossfit Buffalo
Seven rounds for time of:10 Lateral Burpees10 Ball Slams 20lb ball10 Med Ball Cleans 20lb ball
Lateral Burpees are just burpees where you jump over a paralette each rep.
Time 13:40
Cool little space, hoping to get another workout or two in before the end of the week.