WOD

Corn Fed? A thing of the past my friends. The cow wasn’t created to eat maize (corn) instead it was supposed to eat grass. Here’s the deal: when we eat things we’re not supposed to eat (donuts, pizza, loaves of tasty bread, corn bread, sweet tea, various insulin serums (read: soda pop), fritos etc.) we get sick, weird huh? When animals eat what they’re not supposed to they probably aren’t healthy either, crazy huh? Every wonder why Salmon is “so amazing” for us to eat? Ever think that maybe just maybe it has something to do with it’s food chain not being controlled by mankind…

Grassfed beef, and further I propose any animal eating what it was supposed to eat (chickens should eat grubs and insects and stuff instead of corn, probably) is going to be DRAMATICALLY healthier for us to eat than an animal not. Science is 100% behind me on this one, the ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 fatty acids is completely reversed and multiplied in our favor, this is good. Along with it being straight up tasty.

Ed, in his epifinite wisdom, knows the fine people at Crown S Ranch. These farmers raise animals eating what they’re supposed to be eating! They’re gonna loan us a freezer and stock it so we can buy and eat tasty, healthy, sustainable meat! You can go to their website, order it and they’ll bring it when they deliver (the morning of the 4th of July, perfect timing!!), or give me some suggestions and I’ll pass it along and they’ll fill it for us so we can get it to you and into your tummy’s!

June 2010 Price List

Check out the prices! This brings the cost of this fine meat into reality for most of us, all without having to go out and get your own huge freezer and front the cost of buying a 1/4 ($650) or 1/2 ($1200) all at once 🙂

“Doing all the right things for all the right people for all the right reasons.” -Coach Glassman

“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.” -Thomas Jefferson

It’s updated 🙂 Check out the upcoming events!

FYI Mike had the biggest weight on the KB overhead squats, notice the flexibility coupled with strength. Tough to have an even dose of both.

Barbells. They’re pretty awesome.

I’m currently unsatisfied with how well we lift weights. Some of your peers have expressed interest in practicing the barbell more. Much like the muscle-up or the double-under, the barbell requires dedicated practice to improve.

So, rest day BEGONE!

Tuesdays: Squat Variations!
Thursday: Pressing Variatings!
Saturday: Deadlifting Varatios!

Get ready for infinite variety 🙂 Rep schemes, linear periodization, the conjugate method, position, position, position, bar path, core to extremity, TIGHT, sitting back, squeezing the bar, leaning back, arching like crazy, grunting, sweating, chalking your universe, belts, wrist wraps, knee wraps, olympic lifting shoes, PNF stretching and the enigma of the foam roller!

Olympic Clinic June 5th, let me know if you wanna join us! The list is on the right side of the page, if you’re not there, I don’t know you’re coming!!

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What we eat. It’s a big deal. Fitness is defined by CrossFit as one’s “work capacity across broad time and modal domains”. If your capacity is low or limited you are unfit. Fitness over your lifetime requires a keen eye on health. Being fit now and eating poorly will diminish your capacity when it matters most, later.

As much as I love a cheat meal (day) I’m passionate about eating better food. Food that is locally grown, sustainable, organically grown, priced well, made to make us vibrant people. Quality of life trumps quantity every time all the time. Oprah, jello-ish pud, and plastic spoons are not how the last 15 years of life should be done!

Lynnwood CrossFit has several exciting things that we’re putting together, and are being made a part of. Full Circle Farms sends us out boxes of food each week that you order from their website. Totally awesome produce. We’re working on getting grassfed beef available to us. The beef is available in late summer early fall, and will be in the gym. Hopefully it will last through the winter! My Father, has 5 acres of nursery in Stanwood has come on board for us growing veggies, berries and squashes in his enormous greenhouse. I’m looking for a few people who’d like to be a part of his horticulture adventure. The end of next month CrossFit is bringing Carrie and I out to the newly created CrossFit Nutrition Certification! M.D. Will Wright, Jeremy Mullins M.S., and Chef Mike Reideman will be at CrossFit East Village in San Diego teaching us how to utilize food as medicine, as a hedge against sickness, as a tool for enhanced performance and as party-favor festivity that we know and love.

This Certification is revolutionary. At our gym we’ve gotten a dozen people off of blood-pressure medicine, another 8 off of Cholesterol medication, and one off insulin for type 2 diabetes. This is kinda big. Kinda. What we’re going to be able to do for your family, friends and colleagues is amazing. We’re going to forge relationships with great local doctors who see the proof of what we’re doing (that’s in the real food pudding!) and make our community happy, healthy, and vibrant!

So, if you see a random bucket of veggies at the gym and wonder “what’s that about?” It’s real food that’ll keep you healthy from Jesse’s dad about an hour north. It’s a great place to go and play on a tractor! If you see boxes of produce every Wednesday and wonder “what’s in those?” it’s food that’s been designed by God to suit your body’s needs. When you see us lugging in a freezer that could fit two bodies and you wonder “what goes in that!?” the wonderful meat from 3 cows raised in our little state will go in there. When you see strong, lean, and capable people tearing up workouts, and laughing with their friends and you wonder “man, this gym is awesome!” that’s cool. It’s how we roll 🙂

Clan Cheiftan Out.

Attention all studs and studettes who made it out to support and cheer us on: I need your pictures and video!!! Our website is woefully lacking of awesomeness, and at this point it’s my fault for not getting the hook up. So, HOOK ME UP!!

Things to look forward to:
New music set-up at the gym
Special Canada workout on Monday the 24th, against the Victoria BC affiliates
Jesse working this weekend (death)
Awesome footage of regionals and sweet pics of all our hunks and hotties throwing down at Puyallup!!