SPARTAN PERFORMANCE                                CROSSFIT SUFFOLK

1 round of strict (no kipping) Pull-ups, as many reps as possible without releasing the pull-up bar

rest 1 minute

5 minutes of Kettlebell Snatch, alternating hands, without placing kettlebell on the ground for the entire 5 minute period (53# for men, 36# for women)

What Everyone Knows May Be Changing  "I’m an optimist, so I may be engaging in wishful thinking here, but it seems to me that what everyone knows about diet and health is changing — slowly, perhaps, but changing."-—Tom Naughton

City Living: Is It A Brain Drain?  "Scientists at a number of institutions have found evidence (PDF) that the brain suffers from overload when exposed to the busy array of urban stimuli. In a University of Michigan study, subjects who took at walk along an urban street compared with those who walked in a park setting performed much worse on tests of attention and working memory (the ability to “hold” pieces of information long enough to process and use them)."—Mark Sisson, Mark's Daily Apple