Bodytribe Fitness

QUICK NOTICE: This weekend’s workshop is being postponed. Don’t worry, we’ll keep you updated!

Workouts and such

Keep in mind that just because I’m too busy to post workouts doesn’t mean we’re not doing them. But the time it takes to document, link and post some of these blog entries has been taken up by a slew of new people coming through Bodytribe’s door. Today is no exception, but I thought I’d play a quick catch up. Here’s some of the nonsense we’ve been throwing in the mix:

Squats walks. 52 pound KB’s. 25 feet up and back. 180 degree turn steps across the room, and with each step comes a deep squat. Oh, and on the way back, go backwards.

Ring pushups, with feet on a ball. As many reps as you can before crumbling to the floor. Follow this up with L Dips and burpees and it’s quite a combo.

(Replace the box with a ball and you get the idea.)

Brent keeps wanting to do CF WOD’s, so to humor him we’ve done:

75 hang snatches with 75 pounds for time. These suck, not in the ‘oh-it’s-hard’ sort of way, but because such redundant high rep explosive work seems contrary to the the health of my joints. I won’t be doing this combo again, and I’m far from convinced that Oly lifts are a good tool for high rep work. They are lifts that have evolved over time for the purpose of moving a very large load efficiently, not a small load repeatedly.

and

Pullups/squat press (I refuse to call them ‘thrusters’)/burpees. 7 each for 5 rounds for time. This was a little more my style, and if i wasn’t so trashed from a workout the day before, could see myself having even more fun with this combo.

This has all been mixed in with max force work, since I have a meet coming up in about 3 weeks.

FRUIT: THE MODERN SCARE

Enough. The food scare has gotten ridiculous. Some folks are still fearing fats, others have decided to run screaming from this big, blurry world of carbohydrates, while some groups don’t care what the food is, but are simply scarred to death (sometimes literally) of calories in general.

Enough. Does it not strike anyone as sort of ridiculous that researchers are pitting cultural groups and histories against one another to determine how our entire planet should eat? Should we really start ingesting sheep livers because the sheep liver-eating people of Hackerstonia have a lower rate of rickets? But if their ‘low fat’ diet better resembled the ‘low processed carb’ Menstrazoic period of 80 billion years ago, they’d be 3 inches taller and live to 105. But the Chewycheesecake Indians only ate foraged food and half-eaten dead fish left over by hungry bears, and they could fly and had uncommonly high math skills, so try our new dried pre-masticated fish and tuber trail mix for true health and vitality.

Don’t forget the French. They pig out on oil, pasta, cheese and gelato (or is that the italians?) all day, and still have a lower rate of obesity and heart disease than us ‘Mericans, so look for the new Olive Garden Diet Program any day now.

The tipping point for this silliness was the several instances recently when clients and friends have mentioned their fears of eating fruit. There is an honest-to-god belief that fruit makes you fat, that this nature-made, super low calorie/high nutrient treasure of our planet MAKES YOU FAT!! Even hyper-trendy diet programs like South Beach keep you OFF fruit for the first section of the schedule.

So now we’re insane. We’re a bunch of dunderheads who are getting our information fourth-hand, regurgitated through too many mouths and brains, actually creating minor hysterias about fruit. FRUIT!

These words from a previous post bare repeating:

Filling your pie hole successfully for a balanced, healthy lifestyle, is pretty simple and doesn’t require millions of pages from thousands of tomes to get the point across. If your food has a high level of naturally occurring fiber and nutrients, chances are it’s pretty good for you. If it doesn’t, it probably isn’t. There are small exceptions. Certain fats are beneficial, sans any fiber or lack of easily noticeable micronutrients. Same with proteins. BUT if your meals are big collections of processed, nutrient-free (or nutrient-added) nightmares, then even an idiot like me can guess that you’re ingesting crap.

So fear no food. Modern diets are confusing and contrary, going so far as to advocate avoiding fruit. Keep it simple. If it is high in naturally occurring nutrients and fiber, eat it. Stop counting, stop weighing, just eat like a human, not an American.