SPARTAN PERFORMANCE                              CROSSFIT SUFFOLK

 Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 10 minutes of:
30 Double-unders
15 Power snatches

The Power snatch loads are as follows:
Men and Masters Men 45-49, 50-54: 75lbs/35kg
Women and Masters Women 45-54: 55lbs/25kg
Masters Men 55-59, 60+: 65lbs/30kg
Masters Women 55-59, 60+: 45lbs/20kg

CrossFit Games Open 11.1 workout instructions – video [wmv] [mov] (Courtesy of CrossFit.com)

THE CROSSFIT GAMES

The above workout is the workout of the day (WOD) today as well as the first workout of the 2011 CrossFit Games Open.  We will be repeating this workout on Saturday afternoon for those participating in the Games.  We'll have further details regarding Saturday on tomorrow's post!  

There's cool, then there's "Kevin Cool".  Coaching with your sunglasses on in a dimly lit building is definitely "Kevin Cool".  Don't try this at home….unless you're as cool as Kevin! 

Poor Sleep May Make You (And Your Liver) Fat  "New research is revealing exactly why shift workers and other chronically sleep deprived members of mankind tend to have problems with obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease, and all the other popular features of metabolic syndrome: their livers aren’t processing fat efficiently, instead allowing fat to accumulate."–Mark Sisson of Mark's Daily Apple

Old Wisdom On Daily Meal Frequency, Why Are You Eating So Much?  "So what we find is some of the most revered past civilizations full of healthy, athletic, and intelligent people only eating enough to nourish their bodies and not having “the most important meal of the day” (well by modern standards that is).

Then I look around today and see a world full of chronically tired, sick, rapidly ageing, overweight and mentally clouded persons who are told to eat more often….how is this reflecting any wisdom from the past?"—-Mike O'Donnell, The IF Life