I spent a long time to say this: Successful athletes have a foundation of proper nutrition. Being prepared makes for the fastest cooking. Use your rest days to prepare the components of good meals, then you can focus on doing the things that make life worth living. See you next […]
Friday, January 27 – Sunday, January 29 I am saying it is a ski trip but you don’t have to ski. I am sure you can find something fun to do in Tahoe that weekend. $75 per person for the weekend (stay Friday and Sunday nights too, if you want). […]
I thought I would start a new type of post to add some variety to… well not too much, as I haven’t updated the blog lately. Actually, it is variety for me rather then you, my dear readers. Sometimes I just can’t get started and writing about something I read […]
Thursday, Nov. 24 – 9 AM: Edgewood Park (or the gym if it is raining), check us out on twitter (@maddawgfitness) or Facebook for last minute details. Friday, Nov. 25 – Sunday, Nov. 27: Closed. Happy Thanksgiving! Christmas holiday schedule coming soon.
I have uploaded a pdf of a spreadsheet that shows how we are going to scale King/Queen Kong. I think it is pretty clear, but I have been wrong in the past. 🙂 I think the only issues are how we are going to scale the Muscle-ups and handstand push-ups. […]
As many of you know, every 6 weeks or so we try a new benchmark workout, Last month, we did CrossFit Total which is your total weight for a max effort back squat, shoulder press and deadlift (more on the results from that cycle in a later post). For the […]
Saturday, from 9 to noon, we sorted food for the Second Harvest Food Bank. It was a great experience mostly because they are so organized. We sorted food and bagged over 2000 bags of food in a little less than 3 hours with about 100 total people. They distribute about […]
I had an epiphany today. I was in the Dutch Goose with Susan and my mom after a great run with Streeter and his friend David at Huddart Park. I was looking around the Goose and I said “I want a job that I can sit around on Sunday afternoon […]
As you know, we have a number of resources for you here at the gym to help you with your nutrition. For members, we have the Whole9 Nutrition Guide. For your friends and family, we have the copies of Mark Sisson’s The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation or you […]
Robb Wolf tells a story in one of his podcasts about how they catch monkeys in one of the places he has visited. They take a jar with a mouth that is just large enough to put a monkey paw in and then fasten the jar to something sturdy. They […]