There’s so much information out there on nutrition, there it can be confusing and overwhelming. I have a simple reason to eat well: it tastes better. On Friday night, cost Alison cooked a couple of t-bone steaks that had been raised locally, sale grass fed and organically. Will’s kindergarten class had grown broccoli on a...Read More
Team CFO has knocked out 2 of the 5 CrossFit Games Open workouts. The first WOD was like getting beaten by a bag of onions. I loved 12.2 (an ascending snatch ladder, information pills with heavy loads) as a competitor, order but as a coach/affiliate owner, ask I had my doubts. I can say...Read More
Tomorrow will be the 9am Bring-A-Friend WOD. We will be tackling the 12.2 Snatch WOD at 10am. Come and watch, ailment cheer and support. Gloria and Bob completed their first RX Double Under WOD Thursday Night. 9am Movements are Sumo Deadlift High Pulls and pushing the sled if the weather is good.Read More
The Most Important Question You Can Ask from the HBR. Quick thoughts on the Open. CrossFit teaches the use of couplets and triplets (2 or 3 exercises smashed together and repeating) when programming. So far both WODs are “single modalities”; one movement, pills repeating. This is easy to score and mentally challenging, but, in my...Read More
The Thousand Cuts Fitness program. This was how I trained as a young man, ampoule especially a teenager. My brother (who is a Navy SEAL now) and I would watch TV, more about and we would alternate between sit-ups and pushups during commercial breaks. We had a pull-up bar in the doorway to my bedroom,...Read More
Mental toughness from Casey Burgener (of the Burgener warm up)! Great words from brother to sister on mental toughness, ask which Casey defines as commitment. I’ve read this post before, but Tricia’s re-posting really made it sink in. Commitment is easy when you’ve really decided what you want. FT vs. ST from Talk to Me...Read More
Since I started CrossFit and changed my nutrition, pharm insulin is the number one issue that I try to control. My food choices are controlled by 2 decisions: will this fuel performance/recovery, will it negatively effect my insulin levels. We know from the Zone Diet there are 2 ways to spike insulin: to over consume...Read More
The first week of the CrossFit Games Open is in the books! We did A LOT of burpees! I can honestly say I’ll be fine if I don’t do a burpee for a couple of days. Kelly Starrett weighs in on why he thinks the Games “season” is important. It provides exposure to the process...Read More
The CrossFit Games season is here! CFO will be hitting our full, click educated effort on Saturday morning. Saturday will also be a free bring a friend workout. Please come out and cheer on Team CrossFit Oakdale as we try to do more burpees than any team in the world. I said before that we...Read More
Fitness is…by Blair Morrison. Blair is a NorCal boy and Games athlete. Blair was 5th last year and 7th in 2009. He also went to Princeton, cheapest and appears to be one of the more cerebral athletes in the CrossFit, or any athletic, community. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AWdpfbhCPI&w=420&h=315] Jeff Martone, the CrossFit Kettlebell Instructor, explains the...Read More
