Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Squats Again?!?!?!?


So the question has been asked before to several of the coaches in the gym:  Squats again?!
We are aware that years of misinformation on the effects of weight training (especially on females) may make you a little hesitant about loading the bar and going for it. Well, rest assured that we wouldn’t ask you to do anything unless we knew it would make you better, faster & stronger.
I could spend the rest of this post telling you about the testosterone response that will make you more muscular & lean, the overall strength you will develop, or how the squat is the epitome of functional exercises.  I could do that or just show you the next video.





We hope everyone takes the test in the near future.

14 comments:

  1. Alway's a great day when you have egg's and bacon for dinner. Ate good today, lot's of water and a good workout at the box. Thank's Kent

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  2. diet was good today ,work out was great and I got my 1st pull-up with no band,woohooo!!!!!!
    Pam

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  3. Congrats on the pullup Pam!

    Day 3 of Paleo extreme: Believe it or not, I'm craving fruit and not chocolate or bread. My mood swings are better today. Apologies again to all of the people in my path of destruction yesterday. Hoping tomorrow will be even better. Getting my water in and my sleep but keep forgetting my fish oil. Wod today was good. Thanks to Carrie, Cindy and Kent :)

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  4. Better on water today and am dying to have more chocolate than my small piece of sanity chocolate. But I won't - have to fight the urge to break into the Easter candy (thanks mom....) wod at 5:30 and did 21 double unders in a row!!!! I shocked myself :)

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    1. Ps. Did well on food today. Forgot to say that before my chocolate rant

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  5. Great today with food. Did Wod with BEAST Tiffany! Awesome job on the first pullups and DU! Way to go! Melissa

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  6. Got my first double under this morning, always a great feeling to hit a crossfit milestone! Learned that I can't buy chocolate almond butter, couldn't stay out of it and ended throwing the jar away... a little too late unfortunately. Other than that my food was good, didn't drink enough water though. See you in the AM.

    Christi

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  7. Pretty good day. I think the gym was magical today!! I saw Leonor get her first no band pull-up and Christi and Nicole get their first double unders!! Not to mention what all the other athletes did today that i didn't see!! Love it!! I had some of Jeremy's carnitas for dinner--yummy! I even had some of Mel's paleo cereal for a snack today--that was yummy too! I did have my cheat this evening. Back on track in the a.m.!

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  8. ok on food & water. Rest day.

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  9. Tired hockey mom, just in from Richmond, keeping it short:
    Paleo food.....check
    2 Sanity items
    5:30am WOD
    Water......check
    Fish oil.....check

    Great job to all today!!!!

    Carrie

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  10. Water, vitamins, and food all good. Carnitas delish all these good recipes make it easy to stay on track. Congrats to everybody who got there first today. I see everyone hitting little mile stones its AWESOME :-) Great job everyone!!!!!!!

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  11. Casey and i stuck to the diet. We went to the 630 wod. It was my first wod in a week and I lost my voice after for an hour. That's what I get. At least I'm getting better at double unders. Casey promises he's going to see a doctor for his shoulder again ...some day.

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  12. Ran in the morning and did the wod in the afternoon. I was trying to stay away from the paleo "treats" for awhile, but my daughter made coconut milk icecream tonight, and I HAD to have some. After not having sugar in almost a month, it was VERY sweet, almost too sweet, which was good.

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