Passion trumps Logic

Nutrition,the new drug of choice

Awesome article on the use of food as another modality of performance enhancement.  All my young athletes listen up, and my beat up college athletes, change your diet, improve your performance and recovery!

Where did Crossfit go wrong?

Greg Glassman has made a permanent impression on the face of how we look at fitness, this is a fact that can not be questioned.  And while I don’t train in a “crossfit style”, I do track and read where the community moves and progresses.   I have great respect for the community as a whole. 

 

I found it troubling while looking at the winners of the 2011 crossfit games today, and I wonder how crossfit has gone from producing fit women like the picture of Jolie Gentry above to who won the 2007 crossfit games, and Nichole Caroll below to the picture of the winner this year (she is on the right of the bottom picture).  Four short years has changed the direction of the philosophy has gone from this:

To this:

It would seem to me that the allure of a large payday has changed the sport to friendly competition to win at all costs…..

End of a Great Sprint Session

A combination of women’s soccer players and basketball players after they gave their all on a particularly difficult sprint sequence.  Great Effort Ladies!

Squat Clean done the right way

quick video of training this afternoon, Claire has been doing Olympic Lifts for about 10 days, weighs about 120 pounds and pulls 3 perfect squat cleans at 135 pounds.  Not bad, not bad at all