No Shortcuts
There is no quick fix to optimal health. It takes dedication and sacrifice. Here's how...
- Eat foods that makes you healthier, every meal, every day. Eat foods that makes you less healthy infrequently, if at all. Eat just enough to support activity levels and goals.
- Exercise. Work hard. Harder than you are now. But more importantly, work smart. Too much volume, intensity and frequency is just as bad as too little.
- Recover. Devote as much effort to recovery practices as you do to training. This is not optional. Most fall miserably short in this category.
- Sleep 8-9 hours a night, in a cool, dark room. Make time for this. You can get away with less, but only if it’s summertime.
- Manage your stress. Deal with it in a healthy fashion. Stress will undermine all of the above.
Do this, day in and day out, for years and years and years, as consistently as you can.
- Above post abbreviated from The Whole Nine.
David spent four days on a boat, diving for lobster. Above is what he packed - Paleo foods. This type of dedication is why he's 30 lbs. lighter than when he first walked through our doors and keeps getting stronger and faster.
Workout of the Day:
Three rounds for time:
100 m dumbbell waiters walk, right arm 50/35
30 sit-ups (GHD for Rx; Abmat for scaled)
100 m dumbbell waiters walk, left arm 50/35
30 back extensions
Thanks to the CrossFit members that ran the 5k Run tonight. The temperature was outrageous but everyone posted a great time. The run was a great success for the Girls on the Run program and the support is sincerely appreciated.
Posted by: Gina | July 29, 2011 at 09:13 PM
Hey Wendy, if you see this will you let me know when our guys are going today?
Posted by: Chris H | July 30, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Wendy, just saw you guys on TV watching ESPN3! Men's heat 5, Killer cage event. Looks like so much fun!
Posted by: Margaret W. | July 30, 2011 at 10:33 PM
Saw them too! Christine, Frankie, some other woman, Rob, Wendy and Debbie!
Posted by: joe PT | July 31, 2011 at 02:28 PM