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We are Different.

By Jonathan Heuer

We are a different breed.  We get excited by things most people avoid.  The idea of being laid out on our backs after a workout is appealing.  We strive on performance, deal with the pain, and take pleasure in small victories.  5 more pounds, 2 seconds quicker, an inch higher: these are the milestones we live for.  These are the reasons we come in day after day and do what we do.  We love the suck.

We are also a little ridiculous.  We try and explain to friends and family why our shins are always scraped open, why our hands are ripped, why we’re having trouble walking down stairs that day, and then immediately try to convince them why they should come and do it.  We tend towards a cult-like mentality.  (Get more than two of us together and try to have a conversation about something else.  Won’t happen.)  We get way more excited about food than is normal, and we take cheat meals very seriously.  We wear ridiculous looking shoes, or sometimes no shoes at all.  We cheer when someone gets their first hand-tear and then take a picture of it.  We congratulate someone for puking during a workout, and none of this seems unusual to us.

Most of all we are a community.  We suffer together and we succeed together.  We cheer each other on.  We help each other push past the pain and achieve things we never thought possible.  Both inside and outside of the gym we are family.  We come from all walks of life to find a common ground: CrossFit.

3…2…1… GO!

The original can be found here http://crossfithollywood.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/we-are-different/

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Here is a homework WOD:

“Blackjack”

20 Push-Ups
1 Sit-Up
19 Push-Ups
2 Sit-Ups
18 Push-Ups
3 Sit-Ups
17 Push-Ups
4 Sit-Ups
16 Push-Ups
5 Sit-Ups
15 Push-Ups
6 Sit-Ups
14 Push-Ups
7 Sit-Ups
13 Push-Ups
8 Sit-Ups
12 Push-Ups
9 Sit-Ups
11 Push-Ups
10 Sit-Ups
10 Push-Ups
11 Sit-Ups
9 Push-Ups
12 Sit-Ups
8 Push-Ups
13 Sit-Ups
7 Push-Ups
14 Sit-Ups
6 Push-Ups
15 Sit-Ups
5 Push-Ups
16 Sit-Ups
4 Push-Ups
17 Sit-Ups
3 Push-Ups
18 Sit-Ups
2 Push-Ups
19 Sit-Ups
1 Push-Up
20 Sit-Ups

You VS. YOU

Here is an excerpt from and article I found on the NorCal Strength & Conditioning Site.  You can read the rest of the article here.

Soda…Are you STILL drinking it??

Below you will find what soda does to your body in the first sixty minutes of consumption.

* In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
* 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
* 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your liver dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
* 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
* >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
* >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
* >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.

*FYI: The Coke itself is not the enemy, here. It’s the dynamic combo of massive sugar doses combined with caffeine and phosphoric acid. Things which are found in almost all soda.