Showing posts with label paleo diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paleo diet. Show all posts
20100811
Paleo Brands New Site Launches Today
The best internet food company in the known universe is Paleo Brands. Granted, there isn't a whole lot of competition but on the whole they do a great job of offering super healthy, prepackaged food for the power/performance minded athlete in addition to general nutrition information. Guys, I can't emphasize this enough, NUTRITION IS CRITICAL!!! It can literally make or break your athletic career. I'm not saying you guys need to go out and spend all your money on prepackaged cave man fodder but you do need to educate yourselves and you probably should reevaluate how you spend your food budget. People always complain that they can't afford to eat healthy, that grass fed beef costs an extra buck or two at the market and yada, yada, yada. I see those same people drop $50 a night at the bar three nights a week. I promise you that if you spend one less night a week at the bar and instead invest that money into buying high quality, fresh, local foods you will see an improvement in your fitness. This is not rocket science. For those of you who are too lazy, incompetent or just not good with fire, try getting some pre-made paleo food from Paleo Brands.
Labels:
Nutrition,
Paleo Brands,
paleo diet,
Paleo Food,
Rugby
20100804
What Would Chuck Norris Eat?
I get two basic questions via email over and over again; A) Are you interested in great deals on Viagra and Cialis! and B) What should I eat? Well, the answer to A) is YES! and the answer to B) is a bit more complicated. Every person is different both in body composition and in regards to what your fitness goals are. For the majority of readers on this blog the answer is to become jacked and powerful so you can dominate on the rugby pitch and as Thomas Jefferson famously said "slam mad hoes". Recently on John Welbourn's blog, "Talk to me Johnny", there was a great article titled "Just Tell Me What To Eat", in which Chuck Norris tells you what to eat and then roundhouse kicks you in the face.
"It seems that I needed some counseling, so I did what any intelligent individual would do, I contacted Chuck Norris for his views on nutrition. I asked for an accurate prescription for what I should be eating. Chuck responded and delivered the information via a mechanical winged messenger given as a gift by the Gods of Olympus..."
Read up and educate yourselves!
"It seems that I needed some counseling, so I did what any intelligent individual would do, I contacted Chuck Norris for his views on nutrition. I asked for an accurate prescription for what I should be eating. Chuck responded and delivered the information via a mechanical winged messenger given as a gift by the Gods of Olympus..."
Read up and educate yourselves!
M1W3D3
Warm Up:
3 Mins. jump rope
10 squats
10 push ups
10 sit ups
10 pull ups
30 sec. samson stretch
3 Mins. jump rope
10 squats
10 push ups
10 sit ups
10 pull ups
30 sec. samson stretch
10 squats
10 push ups
10 sit ups
10 pull ups
30 sec. samson stretch
12, 9, 6, 3 reps of:
Power Cleans 185 lbs ( scale down to 155 or 135 is necessary)
Ring Dips (use regular dips if necessary)
Ring Dips (use regular dips if necessary)
Record time, this should be done as fast as possible.
Endurance:
60 yd. shuttle started every other minute X 10
60 yard shuttle - set up a cone at starting line, 5 yds, 10 yd and 15yds. Sprint to 5 and back, 10 and back 15 and run straight through the finish.
For this drill you will run the shuttle 10 times starting ever 120 seconds.
Time yourselves, if your effort falls below 90% of your first time you incur a 5 burpee penalty for every slow shuttle run.
Finally, if you want to learn more about nutrition for the power athlete, check out the site "Talk To Me Johnny", it has lots of great info and quick replies if you post in the comments.
Labels:
CFFB,
Crossfit Football,
paleo diet,
Talk to me Johnny
20091203
UCD Rugby Weekly Workout Challenge
"Linda" A.K.A 3 bars of death
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps, for time:
Deadlift 1.5 x BW
Bench Press BW
Clean 3/4 x BW
BW means body weight so if you weigh 180# your deadlift would be 270#, your bench 180# and your clean would be 135.
The 10-9-8-... rep scheme means you do 10 DLs, 10 BPs and 10 CLs then 9 DLs, 9 BPs, 9CLs, etc
Get a buddy and get it done, post time and weight to comments, scale weights down if necessary
Have fun on your break guys and try not to eat too much shitty food. If you can, try and use your extra holiday free time to focus on eating right. I recommend the Paleo Diet, click the link to get a good intro and for more info check out Robb Wolf's Blog. If you want to get really gnarly, try out the Zone Diet. Just doing the zone for a few weeks will give you a really good understanding of how to see food as a drug/fuel for optimum performance. If you are an absolute badass try applying Paleo friendly foods to a Zone style macro nutrient ratio along with extra protein and fat, this is the stuff of champions but it is a HUGE pain in the ass.
Have fun, good luck and go ruck yourselves
-Jesse
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