Fitness and shit

[racedoll]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

Just signed up for my first sprint triathlon too... not sure what I'm getting my fat ass into.

Where? Make sure you do bricks.

[Archren]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Interesting discussion on body mechanics...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcVy7EEgqNM

Dr. Starrett is my freaking hero. His Mobility WODs have been a life saver for me, to the point where I pre-ordered his book when I heard it was coming out. The man is a wealth of information, and following his advice has helped me improve in a variety of CrossFit movements, including fixing some minor tweaks I developed, not to mention it forced me to pay a lot more attention to my posture throughout the day.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Archren

Dr. Starrett is my freaking hero. His Mobility WODs have been a life saver for me, to the point where I pre-ordered his book when I heard it was coming out. The man is a wealth of information, and following his advice has helped me improve in a variety of CrossFit movements, including fixing some minor tweaks I developed, not to mention it forced me to pay a lot more attention to my posture throughout the day.

Reason #7256 why everyone should check out the Joe Rogan podcast.

[Archren]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Reason #7256 why everyone should check out the Joe Rogan podcast.

And mobilitywod.com. He has a ton of free videos talking about things to do to improve mobility and proper positioning/posture for everything from pullups and pushups to olympic weightlifting.

[No Worries]

Originally Posted by Archren

Dr. Starrett is my freaking hero. His Mobility WODs have been a life saver for me, to the point where I pre-ordered his book when I heard it was coming out. The man is a wealth of information, and following his advice has helped me improve in a variety of CrossFit movements, including fixing some minor tweaks I developed, not to mention it forced me to pay a lot more attention to my posture throughout the day.

I got Starrett's book "Becoming a Supple Leopard" from the library. I'm only half way through, but it is amazing. It's extremely comprehensive. He shows all the correct ways to do my favorite exercises like the squat, deadlift, and clean and press. He shows all the faults (how not to do the exercises) and has many tests. I failed several of them. I can't wait to read more.

[Archren]

Originally Posted by Method

I've been interested in crossfit lately. I decided I was bored so I signed up for the Pdx Triathlon in sept and have been training for that, but would like to work some CF into the training plan as well.

Training for the triathlon has been a LOT of fun - it's certainly a nice change to my usual gym time routine. The brick workouts are rough!

If you're training for a tri, I'd say CF as a supplement is fine (since it will build your strength and work on the anaerobic metabolic pathway), but definitely continue training for the tri events primarily. If there's one thing I've learned about CF it's definitely more of a generalist fitness regime rather than a specialist one. Which is fine for me, being in the military, but for someone training for a particular competition it's not ideal as a primary workout. Edit: Unless you're training for the CrossFit Games.

Originally Posted by No Worries

I got Starrett's book "Becoming a Supple Leopard" from the library. I'm only half way through, but it is amazing. It's extremely comprehensive. He shows all the correct ways to do my favorite exercises like the squat, deadlift, and clean and press. He shows all the faults (how not to do the exercises) and has many tests. I failed several of them. I can't wait to read more.

I still need to finish reading the book My coach just went to KStar's mobility course this past weekend. Today was my first day back to working out since last week, and I noticed he was watching everyone's form like a hawk and giving very specific suggestions for correcting their form on things like deadlifts and whatnot. I noticed he never called me out - not sure if that's because I watch KStar videos religiously and have my deadlift down pat, or if he just wasn't paying attention to me at that particular moment.

[Kaneman]

Thanks man, should be fixed.

[randysway223]

Good shit on the jumping. I've been doing this Alternate day fasting diet... and it's been working like a charm so far. 20lb lost so far in the past 2 months.

Kinda lean cutting. But nothing too solid. Anyone else try the ADF diets?

[Kaneman]

Another vote for mobilityWOD...I'm a big fan and have all my clients doing at least a couple of exercises I learned there.

[Cutty72]

Anyone here into biking? (pedal type) Just picked up a Trek 4300 cheap and am looking at commuting to work on it (about 16 mile round trip) plus hitting trails at campgrouds.
Guy was trying to talk me into a 7200, but that was too much road bike for me.