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07/31/2008 Bridal Boot Camp Open House
Crossfit Oahu is hosting a Bridal Boot Camp Open House on Saturday, August 2 from 1:30 to 3:00 pm . Come check out our facility, talk to our trainers and learn a little bit more about CrossFit and what we can do for you. Stick around for a FREE workout at 3:30. Forget what you know about “traditional” gyms; CrossFit is different and it works. We get results.
Our Bridal Boot Camp Program runs for 8 weeks with classes three times a week. The next session starts Tuesday, August 5th. Receive $50 off the price of the program if you sign up during our Open House. Each one-hour Bridal Boot Camp class will consist of a warm-up, followed by an explanation of the workout which will include instruction on the proper form and technique for the exercises used in that particular workout. The workout will be modified according to your fitness abilities. Over the course of the eight week program, you will have the chance to perform most of the movements and exercises used at CrossFit Oahu. You will also receive nutrition counseling provided by our Registered Dietician.
For directions to our facility, please click here. For more information, please contact Cheryl via email Cheryl@crossfitoahu.com.
“YOU’VE GOT THE DRESS . . . NOW GET THE BODY”
07/30/2008 Inspired
I watched yesterday as the ladies from the Wedding Cafe built up to jumping to the top of some mats that was about 20in tall. It was pretty inspiring to tell the truth. They had never done anything like that before, didn’t know what would happen if they missed, and worst of all (for some people) had to be willing to fail in front of other people. A few jumps later and they were new people and the 20in box was firmly in the doable category of life and almost instantly forgotten that it ever was “too high”. Whether it is a 20in box jump for the first time or a 145lb turkish get up I get to see something every day that inspires me to work a little bit harder.
What have you seen at CFO that has inspired you to work a little bit harder? Post your thoughts here.
-Bryant
07/29/2008 Top 20 Worst Foods
We found this on the internet and thought it was pretty interesting. I don’t know how much faith I put in Mens Health Magazine in general but that is where we got this list. What presuppositions about healthy food does this list make? Was there any surprises to you here (Jamba juice made the list!?! Blasphemy!!!)? How many of these sinful foods have you had and does having one of these foods make you a “bad” person? Post you thoughts to the comments here.
-Bryant
20: Worst Fast-Food Chicken Meal - Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips from McDonald’s (5 pieces) with cream ranch sauce. 830 Calories, 55 grams fat (4.5 trans fat), 48 carbs. Add a large fries and regular soda and this seemingly innocuous chicken meal tops out at 1,710 calories.
19: Worst drink - Jamba Juice Chocolate Moo’d Power Smoothie (30 fl oz). 900 calories, 10 g fat, 183 carbs, 166 g sugar. Jamba Juice calls it a smoothie, MSNBC calls it a milk shake. The beverage contains as much sugar as 8 pints of Ben & Jerry’s butter pecan ice cream.
18: Worst supermarket meal - Pepperidge Farm Roasted Chicken Pot Pie (whole pie). 1,020 calories, 64 g fat, 86 g carbs. Label may say this pie serves two, but, whoever divided a small potpie in half? Once you crack the crust, there will be no stopping.
17: Worst ‘healthy’ burger - Ruby Tuesday Bella Turkey Burger. 1,145 calories, 71 g fat, 56 g carbs.
16: Worst Mexican entree - Chipotle Mexican Grill Chicken Burrito. 1,179 calories, 47 g fat, 125 g carbs, 2,656 mg sodium.
15: Worst kids’ meal - Macaroni Grill Double Macaroni ‘n’ Cheese. 1,210 calories, 62 g fat, 3,450 mg sodium. It’s like feeding your kid 1-1/2 boxes of Kraft mac’n'cheese.
14: Worst sandwich - Quiznos Classic Italian (large). 1,528 calories, 92 g fat, 4,604 mg sodium, 110 g carbs. A large homemade sandwich would more likely provided about 500 calories.
13: Worst salad - On the Border Grande Taco Salad with Taco Beef. 1,450 calories, 102 g fat, 78 g carbs, 2,410 mg sodium. This isn’t an anomaly: Five different On the Border salads on the menu contain more than 1, 100 calories each.
12: Worst burger - Carl’s Jr. (Hardee’s on East Coast) Double Six Dollar Burger. 1,520 calories! , 111g fat. Carl’s Jr. brags it’s home to this enormous sandwich, but the restaurant chain also provides convenient nutrition info on its Web site — so ignorance is no excuse for eating it.
11 : Worst steak - Lonestar 20 oz T-bone. 1,540 calories, 124g fat. Add a baked potato and Lonestar’s Signature Lettuce Wedge, and this is a 2,700 calorie blowout.
10: Worst breakfast - Bob Evans Caramel Banana Pecan Cream Stacked and Stuffed hotcakes. 1,540 calories, 77 g fat (9 g trans fat), 198 g carbs, 109 g sugar. Five Egg McMuffins yield the same caloric cost as this stack of sugar-stuffed flapjacks, which is truly a heavy breakfast, weighing in at a hefty pound and a half.
9: Worst dessert - Chili’s Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream. 1,600 calories, 78 g fat, 215 g carbs. Would you eat a Big Mac for dessert? How about three? That’s the calorie equivalent of this decadent dish. Clearly, Chili’s customers get their money’s worth.
8: Worst Chinese entree - P.F. Chang’s Pork Lo Mein. 1,820 calories, 127 g fat,! 95 g carbs. The fat content in this dish alone provides more than 1,100 calories. And you’d have to eat almost five servings of pasta to match the number of carbs it contains. Now, do you really need five servings of pasta?
7: Worst chicken entree - Chili’s Honey Chipotle Crispers with Chipotle Sauce. 2,040 calories, 99 g fat, 240 g carbs. ‘Crispers’ refers to an extra thick layer of break crumbs that soak up oil and adds unnecessary calories and carbs to these glorified chicken strips.
6: Worst fish entree - On the Border Dos XX Fish Tacos with Rice and Beans. 2,100 calories, 130 g fat, 169 g carbs, 4,700 mg sodium. Perhaps the most misleadingly named dish in America : A dozen crunchy tacos from Taco Bell will saddle you with fewer calories.
5: Worst pizza - Uno Chicago Grill Chicago Classic Deep Dish Pizza. 2,310 calories, 162 g fat, 123 g carbs, 4,470 mg sodium. Downing this ‘personal’ pizza is equivalent to eating 18 slices of Domino’s Crunchy Thin Crust cheese pizza.
4: Worst pasta - Macaroni Grill Spaghetti and Meatballs with Meat Sauce. 2,430 calories, 128 g fat, 207 g carbs, 5,290 mg sodium. This meal satisfied your calorie requirements for an entire day.
3: Worst nachos - On the Border Stacked Border Nachos. 2,740 calories, 166 g fat, 191 g carbs, 5,280 sodium.
2: Worst starter - Chili’s Awesome Blossom. 2,710 calories, 203 g fat, 194 g carbs, 6,360 mg sodium.
1: The worst food in America - Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing. 2,900 calories, 182g fat, 240g carbs. Even if you split these ’starters’ with three friends, you’ll have downed a dinner’s worth of calories before you entree arrives.
07/28/2008 Unexpected Outcomes
I’ve been known to turn down the occasional Krispy Kreme and shun the weekly pancake breakfast fund raiser. When asked why, invariably I answer that the foods in question are made with refined grains and are toxic. I think my frank attitude has the tendency to alienate people that think of grains as a staple, inseparably intertwined with their heritage and the meaning of life.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to respond to such outrage, is by telling them, “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” That is, don’t get mad at me for not eating sub-optimal food, be mad at natural selection for making you and your genetic fore bearers predators that subsist on meat, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.
I’ve won over a few converts and they have experienced some unexpected outcomes as a result of changing their diet to be more in accordance with an evolutionary template. One of my coworkers started–I think–in order to lose some of the weight he has gained since moving to the islands and ended up not just losing all the extra weight, but also curing himself of acne, which I had previously never seen him without. Another one of my co-workers has reported higher energy levels, not being sluggish after eating, and greater satiety.
It is pretty striking how the cliche “You are what you eat” can be so true. Unexpected outcomes can also be seen when changing from a paleolithic to neolithic diet. Anthropologists have observed that essentially stone age populations have none of the diseases that modern people suffer from, like acne, cancer, and autoimmune disorders, yet begin to suffer from them, as they transition to neolithic eating patterns.
Luckily, most of us can afford the abundance of agriculture, with the quality of a hunter-gatherer’s diet.
A search on Google Video turned up some interesting clips on the pernicious effects of neolithic diets on the human body.
Check out Dr. Cordain on possible (and plausible) causes of autoimmune disorders such as MS.
Here he is on acne.
Here is Jared Diamond of Guns, Germs, and Steel on humanity’s transition to agricultural assessing the utility of our transition to agriculture.
Feel free to post your thoughts by clicking on the title of this post.
–Nick
07/24/2008 Trivia Time!!
The first of several new CF Oahu shirt designs is in. Alex loves them. He said, “They’re so soft!”. The shirts we just got in are a men’s cut, but the ladies’ tanks and t-shirts will be in soon. I figured a CrossFit quiz for a free shirt would be interesting. Below are five CrossFit questions. Be the first to answer all correctly and the prize and eternal braggin’ rights are yours!!! (Sorry coaches, you can’t answer!!)
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1-Name the dog that is owned by Greg Glassman, the founder of CrossFit, that shows up in the top of the first page of the CF Journal every month?
2-Who was the first CF affiliate?
3-Where was the first CF Facility located?
4-What CF Affiliate started the CF Kids program?
5-Where is the men’s winner of the 2007 CF Games facility located?
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Good luck, use google wisely, and post your answers here.
-Bryant
07/23/2008 Happy B-Day and Welcome To The Club!!
Just in case you thought Richard was skipping out on CF lately, here is the real story. He has been on a whirlwind tour of CF facilities in California and hoarding all the CrossFit shirts he can get!! Not only is today his birthday, but he also got his first muscle up!!! Watch out, Steve!! In case you wanted some CFO history, Hollis (a trainer at CFSC) used to live out here in Hawaii. He originally planned on starting CrossFit Oahu with Craig and I, but he moved back to the mainland. In fact, we have a rusty pair of 25lb dumbbells hidden under the racks at CFO that are his if he ever makes it back out this way.
-Bryant
“I’m in California visiting different CF gyms and today, on my 44th birthday, after being inspired by Remy’s recent accomplishment, and after some tips from Hollis at Crossfit Santa Cruz, I got my first Muscleup! (See attached pics for proof). I actually did one before class. Then two in a row. Then another one.”
-Richard
07/22/2008 Frenchie’s In The Club!
Congrats to Remy for getting his first muscle up yesterday morning. He hadn’t really been working on them, but decided to give it a go. Got up on the first try! Way to go dude, you rock!
- Cheryl
07/18/2008 Science Beats Superstition Again
“We” were the low carb, low calorie, good fat camp and “they” were the low fat, low calorie, high carb opposition. The battle was for the hearts and minds of the public on the very personal and private matter of nutrition - what diet makes us healthy?
Yet again, a study has shown that carbohydrate restriction is safe and more effective than the 30 year hoax/religion/superstition known as low-fat dieting (what I call “the high-sugar, fad diet”) for weight loss and reducing heart disease risk. I haven’t read the study yet, as my plate is full, but some of the best bloggers on the internet have and they dissected the study in ways MSN or the AP won’t–they actually read it.
Peruse their work and post your thoughts:
Mark’s Daily Apple had a decent post, as did Dr. Mike at Protein Power, who always seems to write insightful critiques of studies. Regina Wilshire at Weight of the Evidence, I think, was even more thorough. Finally, CrossFitter and author of Modern Forager, Scott Kustes, gave his two cents.
Overall, they came to the same conclusions. Even though the low-carb diet prescribed to the participants wasn’t what Dr. Atkins would prescribe (i.e. prejudicing plant-based protein and fats over animal based ones), the carbohydrate-restricters still had better results, even with a lower adherence rate over two years!
It will be a while until the mainstream medical and media establishments shake off their cognitive dissonance. As studies started years ago continue to pile up, what people have known for centuries–that carbohydrates cause disease and obesity–will hopefully become common knowledge again.
–Nick
07/17/2008 Happy B-Day
Happy (belated) birthday to Gretchen!!! Isn’t everybody looking forward to 38 minutes of her infamous B-Day workout next year?!
07/14/2008 Miss Hawaii 2008
Congratulations to Nicole Fox who won this year’s Miss Hawaii Scholarship Pageant Friday night at the Neal Blaisdell Concert Hall. This year’s competition was a three-night affair, with swimsuit, talent and interview competitions. The winner will represent Hawaii in the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas.
True to form, Nicole was back at CFO Monday morning. Here is a link to an interview Nicole did with a local news station after her win Friday evening.
-Cheryl
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