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Oops! The intention of creating this thread was not to freak out any of our new folks in our community. The beauty of CrossFit is that it is only as hard as you are willing to push yourself. All workouts can be scaled. You never need to go so hard that you collapse, vomit, soil yourself or have quit mid way through. What I…

That sounds nuts. I love it. I'll bet you hurt like a mo-fo for days afterwards. Prop's for finishing.

Well, it supposed to be short.

It embraces the elitist attitude that has given CrossFit a bad name.

I have been stuck on 17 chews for years. Just can't get past it. It's crazy.

$100/month for unlimited. CrossFit Carrboro!

I will pour juice out for my dead homie.

One of those guys that wants the people to MPF to get in great shape and to hear about all available options to get there? Yeah, I guess I am. Honestly, your comment doesn't make any sense. Would I walk into Body Pump with a barbell with rubber plates on it? No, why would I? I will admit that my comment was dig on Body…

There are Les Mills classes in the studio next door to our CrossFit gym. It looks cute when they play with those funny little barbells and their 1/4 depth squats.

Having a urban downhill segment is pretty stupid. Also, not only did this guy get killed but some other d-bag was chasing a Strava segment and killed pedestrian. I love Strava segments as long as it does not require you to break posted traffic laws. The good news is that you can now flag segments as dangerous and they will…

Agreed. Lump it in the pile of unsustainable gimmick diets.

I don't love the term toning. To quote one of the giants of strength training, Mark Rippetoe, -There is no such thing as "firming and toning.” There is only stronger and weaker. Then he would teach you how to squat and deadlift. No ladies, you do not produce enough testosterone to EVER get bulky. It won't ever happen so…

Hell, that's easy. Nuts. And oils. And scrambled eggs with butter. And my all time addictive favorite, Trader Joe's Almond Butter with Flaxseeds. It's unreal. Now, nuts are not zero carb but pretty low in carbs. You cannot eat too many if you are trying to go fully ketogenic. Other things are full fat plain yogurt and…

If you acknowledge that you have addictive food behaviors and eat compulsively, I recommend checking out Overeaters Anonymous meetings. If you have tried every diet ever, gain and lost weight repeatedly and every other trick in the book, going to a few free 1 hour meetings seems pretty reasonable.

You are not going to get something that is 100% accurate. One of the beauties of Crossfit is that you ramp up your metabolism and burn more around the clock. If you are not wearing a HRM, probably the next best thing is to just use the circuit training or calisthenics and enter the time that it took to do your WOD. Both…

True. Those are the days you have to get over that drive to do the WOD at Rx and lighten the load. You can always go lighter and faster for conditioning.

This does not sounds like a good idea. Cereals are typically high glycemic indexed foods with little nutritional value. Your insulin levels will be up causing you to get hungry at more frequent intervals and causing fat cells to have a harder time releasing their contents. In the off chance that the cereal diet did work,…

That makes sense. Fat does have a high satiety factor. I eat 2 tablespoons of almond butter the moment before I go to bed every night. If I don't, I will wake up so hungry in the middle of the night that I can't sleep.

I have an older Garmin 305 and I never actually look at the calorie read on the device. However, I do upload the ride data to both Strava and Garmin Connect. There are typically huge differences in the calorie count. It is not unusual for the count between the 2 websites to be 20-30% different. I think that part of the…

I sort of do something similar. One of the unfortunate things about teaching Crossfit is that I teach the only class time that would work for me to work out. So I end up working out alone most mornings after all of the athletes leave. I discovered over the last 12 months that I really can't stand doing WOD's solo. So…

For most of my meals, I have to have something to bulk it up so I keep a ton of frozen veg in the freezer including green beans, spinach, collard and turnip greens, and Brussels Sprouts. I also keep some canned greens and cans of sauerkraut in the pantry. Finally, I buy a huge bag of prepped fresh broccoli florets once per…

Great idea and I could not agree more. I just don't know about Greek Yo in my coffee ;-)

Crossfit has blown up over the last few years and one of the main reasons is that you really don't have to do anything else to get in world class shape! However, keep up with your sport stuff. I am a cyclist and feel sluggish if I don't get any miles. What I have discovered is that I can roast half the guys that ride 2-3 x…

For about 2 years I did not eat before working out at either 6 or 7 am. I found that I would sometimes (but not always) get distracting hunger pains so now I eat the same thing every morning before I WOD. 1/4 cup of cottage cheese (no it's not paleo), 3 almonds and 1/4 of a medium sized apple. It is only a few bites but it…

You don't need to do more cardio and too much cardio can slow down your progress getting stronger doing crossfit. Do what you love though. There is no right or wrong way. Crossfitendurance.com would recommend taking at least 3 hours off before doing cardio after a WOD. If you are new to crossfit and are trying to see how…

Great job! Keep it up. I remember my first WOD. It was a spiritual experience and I knew I had to have more. That was nearly 3.5 years ago and it has changed my body and my life.

I try to live by the motto of " don't let the numbers do a number on you." When I have an attachment to an outcome rather than just participating in the process, that is where I feel the least contentment. For instance, before I knew about realistic goal setting, I came up with a laundry list of goals for 2011 that, in…

You have a recurring dream of repping out alt leg pistols when in fact, in 3 years of doing CrossFit you have only done 1 pistol with 1 leg, 1 time. Then you wake up realizing it was only just a dream.

For your sake, I hope that you don't filter all of the comments that day "no way" and favor the ones that say that you can do it. It isn't worth it. Trying to do this is insane. And what if you loose say, 5 lbs instead of 15? Are you going to be devastated? I just don't want to see you set yourself up for failure.

I Love CF but due to running my knee is stuffed and also my doc has told me I should not squat. Did he tell you not to stand up out of your chair at the dinner table? That is a squat. I say this not to be a smart *kitten* or to be dismissive of medical advice. We all squat in some form whether it is catching a heavy clean…