All Entries in the "Health & Fitness" Category

A Visit to Burlington’s CrossFit Altitude [08.30.10]

Visit to CrossFit Altitude

Backyard WOD At The New Place [08.29.10]

Just landed in Stoney Creek. Figured I’d live the life and hit some workouts by the lake.

Heavy Deadlifts & CrossFit “Jackie” [08.27.10]

Jackie is a beautiful bitch.

CrossFit “Test 3″ Tabata Squats & 4 Minutes of Muscle-Ups [08.25.10]

A quick little 8 min adventure.

Back Squats To Failure & How Many Jumps?! [08.24.10]

Just another day at work.

Power Clean PR & A Freakishly Low HR [08.22.10]

Never seen a heart rate of 38 before….until today.

Fire Breathing 101 [08.21.10]

burpees, box jumps, toes to bar.

CrossFit Benchmark WOD “Nate” [08.18.10]

17 Rounds on CrossFit “Nate”

Double Bodyweight Deadlift x 11, Nasty Rope Climb Metcon [08.20.10]

Double bodyweight for 11!

Fitness Fridays: P90X – Day 36

Shoulders and Arms and Extreme Olympic Celebration
Deep Impact. Today, I had the most worthwhile, deserved, necessary, but devastating hangover of my life. Monday March 1st has become the unofficial National Hangover day. Greasy spoons from coast to coast were ladling lard, eggs, and sodium-laced pork product in numbers that would make an Alabaman grandma proud. [...]

Back Squats and Sprints [08.17.10]

Back Squats and Sprints.

Getting Diabetes: How To Grocery Shop

I followed a fat woman around the grocery store. Yes, I did that.

Hey Pussy, Throw Out Your Swiss Ball

Unstable surfaces do not increase activation more than stable surfaces.

Dealing with the Andropause Brigade [Part 3]: Tea, Coffee or Man Boobs

Green tea has been shown clinically to increase testosterone, decrease estrogens, and increase detoxification rates in the body. It also serves at increasing metabolism.

Dealing with the Andropause Brigade [Part 2]: How the Metrosexual Look is Castrating You

CP Back at it!!

CP: Mary-Jane, how are you?
OFME: Jonathan is the name.

Fitness Fridays: P90X – Day 32

Kenpo-X
I would go to a Kenpo X party. Twister, Pictionary, Spin-the-Bottle, Flip-Cup, Midget-Lesbian-KY-Jelly Wrestling: none of this would be as fun as Kenpo. I love watching Kung-Fu films; we all do (or at least should if we consider ourselves good, respectable people). Kenpo X has all the glory, ass-kickery, and martial arts wizardry of a [...]

Dealing with the Andropause Brigade [Part 1]: Helping Middle Age Men Achieve Optimal Body Composition

Any self respecting male above 8% is a walking Porky Pig.

Day 1 & 2 of Bulgarian Cycle [08.11.10]

Moving to a one month cycle of the Bulgarian Program

Why Women Can’t Lose Weight [Part 6]: Women and Magnesium

Part 6 from Charles Poliquin. Women and Magnesium

Why Women Can’t Lose Weight [Part 5]: Women and Blood Work

Part 5 of Poliquin’s quest to smarten up the general female population on matters of nutrition

Top 10 reasons Women Get Fatter Despite Good Intent

Kashi for breakfast with skim milk for breakfast. Eat the cardboard box, it is higher in nutrients.

Why Women Can’t Lose Weight [Part 4]: Making Time for Exercise

CP is back, in your face, and still spitting the truth.

Back On The Gain Train! [08.03.10]

Back on the gain train!

The Most Important Thing We Can Do to Improve Our Health Is To Stop Eating Boxed Cereal

The cut down dietary cholesterol message is stronger than its evidence.

Energy Drinks: Sugary Drink or Borderline Drug?

Some contain the caffeine equivalent of 10 cans of cola

“Death By Pullups” After a 9 Day Rest

Even conditioned hands can’t handle that many without ripping just a little!

Food: The Ultimate Secret Exposed [Watch & Share]

Scary stuff.

Piece of Sh*t Trainer: Tracy Anderson Method

You are NOT a good trainer. I’m not even sure I can call you that without snickering.

Why Women Can’t Lose Weight [Part 3]: Why Eating Fat Does Not Make You Fat

Eating fat does not make you fat. Sorry to completely rack your brain.

Fitness Fridays: P90X – Day 31

Back and Biceps

After this workout, I sat on my couch in silence, sweat dripping from my brow and crashing against my floorboards. Defeat? Dejection? Disgrace? None of these describe what I was feeling. My brain was empty, not a single, solitary thought in sight. Just a general numb physical sensation all over [...]

Does Wearing Shoes Designed For Your Foot Type Actually Prevent Injuries?

Results show that what has been widely accepted in terms of running footwear may actually lead to increased injuries.

The Most Accurate Body Fat Calculator

Fast and easy and all you need is a measuring tape and a scale.

Why Women Can’t Lose Weight [Part 2]: Women, Breakfast and Soy

So you’ve got a soy problem…

My Butt is BIG

Aint nothin’ wrong with some big ‘ol buttcheeks.

9 Sure Ways to Sabotage Your Weight Loss

The title says it all. Common things you may be doing to sabotage your weight loss efforts….or lack thereof.

Why Women Can’t Lose Weight [Part 1]: Women and Breakfast Cereals

You are misinformed, and you’d better not feel guilty about it.

Fitness Fridays: P90X – Day 29

Chest, Shoulders, Triceps, and Ab Ripper X
Last week was a recovery week, which gave us the weekend off. Most people that are willing to put themselves through this gauntlet of ridiculous abuse would take the time to eat well and look after their body. I, for a daunting number of mostly negative reasons, am not [...]

Piece of Sh*t Product Line – The Neckline Slimmer

ARE. YOU. FUCKING. KIDDING. ME.
This is sad.
People wanting something for nothing.
Fat people have double-chins.  If you have one, you are a fat person. This product will not remove the rolls of fat that have formed around your neck (possibly one of the leanest areas on the body btw).  I don’t know how much more clean [...]

Deadlift Clusters and a Rough 6 Minutes

The programming I follow (click the picture).  Aside from winning the 2007 CrossFit Games as an athlete, James “OPT” FitzGerald is an absolute genius programmer and has several of the top CrossFit athletes in the world following his programming.
It is not intended to be a program that everyone can handle.

July 14
A1. Dead Lift Cluster @ [...]

Hill Sprints Made Harder and Video from The Vault [07.13.10]

If hill running wasn’t hard enough….

Incredible Feats of Strength [By a Canadian Athlete!]

Meet Dariusz Slowik, Canadian Discus thrower. You’re about to see some wild stuff…

3 Minute Circuit of Death! [07.10.10]

Short and to the point. This one should come with a warning label!

The Epitome Of Lazy

useless.

A Simple Way To Get Stronger Legs

Poliquin’s “Omni Squats” provide a significant hypertrophy stimulus. They make you fucking strong.