Old-school physical fitness in central Seattle

Archive for February, 2010

Endurance athletics and Paleo/Primal way of eating

Can endurance athletes live a paleo/primal lifestyle, eating whole foods and eliminating grains? They can steer in the general direction of a Paleo diet even though they need more carbohydrate than the average person. Here are two endurance athletes talking about what they eat and why. Longtime professional triathlete Jonas Colting says he eats “some [...]

Deadlifting for fun

Colin and Molly, visiting from CrossFit Bishop in California, came in to test their 1RM deadlift. Their cute-as-a-bug daughter crawled from place to place and found the small weight plates surprisingly hard to pick up.

Top 10 worst nutrition mistakes

From Nora Gedgaudas’s site Primal Body Primal Mind. My pet peeve is number 8, using negotiation-speak such as “moderation” and “once in a while.” The one that I love the most for how it blows my mind is regarding gene expression, number 3 on Nora’s list. “Even by the most conservative geneticists’ standards, we have [...]

CrossFit on tour

Our friend Colin Broadwater, owner of CrossFit Bishop (California), is visiting Seattle with his family and came in to do “Diane” with me at noon. Here he is doing a 185-pound front squat beforehand, and sporting the “Dad” look with the black pants, black socks, brown shoes. “Diane”: 21-15-9 225-lb deadlifts and handstand push-ups. Colin [...]

Deadlift breakthroughs all day long today!

We figured out that people were not taking the time to get set before deadlifting. We work on the start position a fair amount , but still, it’s too easy to rush the lift. Up to a certain point you can get away with it. Then you feel that, even with a good start position, [...]

Fun workout today!

Trainer Stephanie designed a good workout for today that provided a back-off for people who needed it, or could be scaled up for those who were rarin’ to go. 30 seconds each of: jumprope, squats, rest, jumprope, push-ups, rest, jumprope, box jumps, rest, jumprope, burpees, rest, jumprope, push-press, rest, jumprope, pull-ups, rest. First we deadlifted. [...]