A Race Car. If you want the best performance, you'll put in the best gas

Consider this a life-changing lesson about why eating like a caveman is a good thing. Forget retro, we're going way back to Paleo.
In the process of morphing into the lifestyle of convenience that comes with modern technology, we've managed to evolve into a manner of eating that much evidence shows is detrimental to our health.

Early men and women all had to be "athletes" in a sense, hunting and gathering and having to move themselves anywhere they wanted to go. They ate what was available from the land -- nuts, fruits, meat and seafood. Continue Reading.

And for all the UT fans out there...HOOK 'EM!

WOD
DEADLIFT
3-3-3-2-2-1
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Pull Up Ladder-
With the clock running continuously, perform 1 pull up the first minute, 2 pull ups the second minute, 3 pull ups the third minute. Continue in this fashion until you can no longer fit the number of reps required in the 60 seconds.

Busy!

We are super busy at CFCP today. So busy that I don't have time to find content or pics for this post. I'll make it up on later post. Go find something education in The CrossFit Journal. Maybe check out Mike Gym for some Olympic lifting technique. You're gonna need it!


WOD

4 Rounds For Time
10 Cleans #95/#135
50 Air Squats
10 Burpees

Paleolithic diet is so easy, cavemen actually did it

Paleolithic diet is so easy, cavemen actually did it

(Sarah L. Voisin - The Washington Post)

Here's a question for the weight-conscious: How often do you see a fat caveman? Exactly. Maybe excepting Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, most portrayals of the people who lived 12,000 years ago depict svelte folks baring rock-hard -- if hairy -- abs. What's their secret? Surely it's great exercise to be out chasing woolly mammoths and foraging for berries all day. And it helped that there were no Fruity Pebbles or venti white chocolate mochas hundreds of generations ago.
But, seriously, what if we ate like our Paleolithic ancestors? That would be lots of lean meats, nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables; no grains, salt, sugar, legumes or dairy products. Some people do, and it's called the Paleo diet READ MORE

WOD

Running "Cindy"

5 pullups

10 pushups

15 squats

Run 400m

AMRAP in 20

Happy New Year 2010

Thanks for coming out to the first Free Community WOD

of 2010. We had a great time and are looking forward to a great year

of elite fitness.

Go CrossFit Cedar Park!

Check out what Stephanie wrote about her visit to Saturdays "open gym".

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Holiday WOD, Part III

Today Ryon and I joined our friends Bryan and Victoria at Crossfit Cedar Park/Tillman Training (HEY Y'ALL if you're reading this :) ). Nothing beats a good workout on a sunny Saturday morning.


We started off with a warm-up similar to Crossfit Central - high knees, jumping jacks, squats, push-ups a few times through. Then onto the WOD!

3 rounds for time:
400m Run
21 Wall ball shots (14# women's RX)
12 Pull-ups

read more

Todays WOD

3 rounds for time

40 push press (45, 65)

30 squats

20 ring dips

10 double unders

The Last Wod of 2009

Random Fact:

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. 
Does this apply to the average CrossFitter?

Join us on January 1st for the first Free Community Workout of 2010. We will be meeting at the gym at noon. Bring your friends, family and who ever else you can talk into some self-induced torture! 

WOD
For Time:
TABATA SQUATS
1 MILE RUN
TABATA SQUATS (try to beat your last score)