Defining Fitness
A very strong, fit girlfriend of mine just told me about CrossFit. It’s being offered at my gym. After much research, so far, I like the concept. What do you think about it?
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June 13th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I would do it. It looks way more fun than the usual gym routine.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I think it’s awesome. I may one day do exercise that way one day when I’m as old as Sherri, but right now I’m having too much fun bodybuilding. Don’t need to take a class, just go to crossfit.com and make your own routines.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
HRB, CrossFit is much more comprehensive and balanced than bodybuilding. Even as old as I am, I know that.
It seems a lot like the Media Fitness Challenge we just endured. In training for that, I gained a lot of strength in a short period of time.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
looks to me like a regular circuit type workout where you do lots of different lifts motions etc.? not thinking that is anything new… anything that gets people moving and working nearly all aspects of their bod… than GREAT!
remember when you were a kid and you did obstacle courses, played hide and seek, or the myriad of other outdoor games! yep you were getting CrossFit for free
hmmm… swim bike run… some high rep lifting thrown in… maybe some more resistant lifting (HRB style)… go dancing!… have lots of _ _ _, yeah, I know what you are thinkin
June 14th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Good point G! Sure wish more kids now went outside and played like we used to. HRB, you know nutrition…the CrossFit philosophy is that endurance athletes eat too many carbs and sugar and not enough protein. G, I know we need carbs to keep us from bonking. CrossFit uses Dr. Barry Sears’ Zone Diet. 40% carbs, 30% protein, and 30% fat. http://www.drsears.com/
But G, if you’re biking, swimming and running, you don’t need to worry about calories. Do you?
June 14th, 2008 at 9:23 am
is wet outside! but a nice ride this am… only reason I work out is so I can eat and still see my feet when I look down! ok… may not be the only reason.
the 3 letter word from above is F U N! but other 3 letter words fit.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Sherri, that philosophy of dieting is not only correct for CrossFit, but for everyone. The percentages you wrote are perfect. What gets me is that folks need a special plan to get it…i.e. the Zone, CrossFit…when the basics are basically in that one sentence you wrote.
Same goes with exercise. If you don’t think weight lifting is ‘cardi’, you aren’t doing it right. Try 8 sets of squats with double your body weight, then report back to me on what happened. I challenge anyone to do this.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I’d agree you burn more calories when biking, running, and swimming. Also, weights and calisthenics for a balanced workout. However, as a person gets older their metabolism slows down and they don’t burn calories as quickly as when they were younger.
Though they tone up, they still have to cut back on their intake, compared to when they were younger to compensate for the slowdown in metabolism. This can have an adverse effect on their health and ability to heal from injuries if they cut back too much. The formula is a good benchmark.
Time and gravity are the two laws that no amount of exercise can overcome. You merely try to find balance with the two. As the saying goes “I ain’t as good as I once was, but I’m as good as I ever was”
June 14th, 2008 at 10:58 am
WRyker - True dat. However, you can fight that metabolism slow down more than most think. If requires very high intensity exercise and high calorie, clean diet. I’m for squeezing every bit of potential out of my body before it goes to the old folks home.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Good grief you guys are serious about all this stuff. I just want to look good and feel good.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Mel, I am obsessed. It runs in the family.
June 14th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
That’s perhaps one of my biggest downfalls, most everything that’s good for you, I hate to eat.
I enjoy a good sit down dinner any day over fast food but even that can be as unhealthy for you as take out.
Today, I did a thirty-mile bike ride and sweated a few calories. However, after going out to dinner, a movie, then coffee and dessert most of what I sweated off earlier will be added plus a few extra free radicals.
I know there’s things I could/should cut out like the coffee & dessert. I guess each of us has our own cross to bear.
June 14th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I know what you mean. I love chocolate and wine but hate most fruits and vegetables. It’s just not fair.
June 14th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Okay, we need some healthy food inspiration here. Tonight, baking BBQ chicken breasts with green beans, blackeyed peas and fresh cantelope. Ran hard for just 2.5 miles, but did major yard work and lifting all day.
HRB, Suzie, I know you have healthy meal ideas.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I make a giant salad every Sunday, enough to last all week. Everyday after my workout I have two protein shakes and a salad. Ingredients: lettuce, peppers, red onion, cucumber, black olives, green olives, raw asperigus tips, sunflower seeds, feta cheese. Drizzle on olive oil.
I also eat as much sashimi as humanly possible.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Oh, my wife is pregnant so I am forced to eat ice cream on Saturdays.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
HRB, I need more info. on sashimi.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Baked chicken is a much better option to the 3 bowls of Spinach and Artichoke Dip that we inhaled the other night.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
6/14/2008
Capt. Ward Boston: “They lie about everything. You can’t believe a word they say”
Posted under: General— @ 12:30 am
[We are sorry to report that Capt. Ward Boston Jr. the Counsel to the U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry investigation into the Israeli attack against the USS Liberty has passed away yesterday - admin]
Insider Tells the Truth About the Cover-up of the Attack on the USS Liberty
By Mark Glenn — AFP
‘Son, I spent 2 years as a special agent in the FBI and over 30 yrs in the military, and if it is one thing I learned through all of this, it’s that when you get an order, you say ‘yes sir’ and carry it out with no questions asked’.
This was the response given by Capt. Ward Boston, USN (Ret) to this reporter in a series of recent interviews he gave for American Free Press Newspaper. For those not familiar with Capt. Ward Boston, he played what will one day be recognized as one of the most pivotal roles in recent human history. 40 years ago this June, he was the senior legal council for the Naval Board of Inquiry concerning the June 8, 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli Air and Naval forces that resulted in 34 Americans killed and 171 wounded. His job in 1967 was to be part of a hastily-called investigation into the attack, and–as he has recently revealed to the shock of many–to rule that Israel’s 90-minute bloodfest waged against America’s young men was all an ‘accident’ that occurred during ‘the fog of war’, all the evidence to the contrary be damned. In 2002, Capt. Ward broke his silence of 3 decades and released an affidavit to the public in which he admitted that the entire investigation was a sham, and that he was under orders (from persons of no less authority than President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara) to rule that the bloodiest day in American naval history since WWII took place as a result of ‘mistaken identity’ and that America’s ally, Israel–was innocent of any wrongdoing.
For 35 years Capt. Ward lived with the bitter knowledge that his fellow servicemen had been deliberately murdered in what was an act of war by a foreign power and yet because of the orders he received was powerless to say anything. A conflux of events however led him to make the decision to ‘damn the torpedoes’ and to let the chips fall where they may. ‘I’m an old man’ he told AFP. ‘They can’t threaten my job, and if they throw me into jail, so what? The truth has to be told for the benefit of the survivors and for the American people whose sons and daughters are dying today’.
The first of these events leading him to break his silence was the 2002 release of a book entitled ‘The Liberty Incident’ written by Judge Ahron Jay Cristol at a time when America was being drawn into a series of long-term military engagements with countries that just so happened to be enemies of Israel. Through his book and subsequent speaking tour, Cristol (a slavish, shameless, fanatical apologist for the Jewish State who is on more-than-friendly terms with a number of people in both the military and arms industry in Israel) did the usual song and dance when it comes to discussing the terrorist state that attacked America in 1967, which was to argue for unconditional acquittal, using a collage of sloppy yet deliberate misrepresentations and omissions of fact. In Capt. Boston’s words, it was Cristol’s ‘insidious attempt to whitewash the event that pushed me to speak out’.
‘These rats,’ he said, referring to Israel and her defenders. ‘They lie about everything. You can’t believe a word they say’ he told AFP. What was so important about this statement was that Capt. Boston was not just talking about the past, but about the present and future as well. ‘They’ve completely infested the entire Intelligence and Defense apparatus of the United States’ he said. ‘Perle, Feith, Wolfowitz, and all the rest of them…They’re spies for Israel, every damned one of them’ he said. ‘Just consider the 5 guys who were arrested after 9/11, cheering and celebrating, and then afterwards we come to find out that they were Mossad and then they get sent back to Israel. They knew all about it and yet our government, the government I worked for most of my life did nothing about it. Can you imagine if these guys were Arabs?’ he asked. ‘It’s been the same thing, ever since 1967’ he said with unmistakable aggravation. ‘Protect Israel, protect Israel…In the meantime, our boys are dying over there and those who don’t die are coming back here with all sorts of problems, both physical and psychological’.
It was his visit to Israel some years back that clinched it for this man in terms of his feelings for the ‘great experiment’ in Jewish self-rule. ‘The way they treat the Arabs…it’s unconscionable’ he said. ‘You go into Israel, into the only places where they allow the tourists, and it’s the picture of paradise, just as the Soviets used to do. Then you take a detour off the approved itinerary and you see what it is really like…The poverty, misery, abuse. Arab kids being gunned down in broad daylight. It’s worse than South Africa. Only a person with a ice water in his veins could see the way the Arabs are treated and not be outraged’.
As far as the future goes, Capt. Boston is not hopeful. ‘If either they (the Israelis) or the US launches a war against Iran, it will be the beginning of the end’ he said. ‘Armageddon…You’ll have Muslims pouring into the area from all over the world and no army will be able to stop them. They will tear Israel and the Americans to pieces.’
As far as his reaction to the predictable accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ that have been leveled against him for telling the truth concerning the attack on the Liberty, he laughs it off. ‘One of my closest friends growing up was Jewish’ he said. ‘I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my body. What we are dealing with here is an act of war initiated against the United States, the country I swore an oath to defend, period. If a proper investigation into the attack on the Liberty had been allowed to take place and the American people made aware of what happened, we would not be in the middle of this mess in the Middle East now.’
Mark Glenn Correspondent–American Free Press Newspaper
www.americanfreepress.net
www.crescentandcross.com
americanfreepress@yahoo.com
The Liberty Hour with Mark Glenn & Phil Tourney (RBN Radio)
Article Source: TheUglyTruth.com
June 14th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Someone has forgotten to take their libruim again.
June 15th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Sashimi! oh to be spoiled again… HRB, I have been in Sashimi heaven… we had so much that as we cooked fish and couldn’t wait for that to be done… we were slicing, dipping, and chowing down on the FRESH raw catch of the day and it was FREE!!! I go to one of the teppanyaki places or other lil sushi places round here and it’s like 12 bucks for 6 lil cubes of tuna! Sher, not quite sure you can qualify eating tuna out of the lil packets as sashimi.
June 15th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Fresh from the sea sashimi is indeed the ultimate. Not an easy catch either. Were you fishing in the Gulf? The Japaneese get a lot of our fish and thus keeping the price high.
June 15th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Yes, HRB, forgetting to take your librium can apparently also lead to an identity crisis.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
….im going to contine to ignore confused fruitloops on this site.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Sashimi is good with Wasabi, Ginger, and Green Tea. Where in Shreveport/Bossier is the best place for getting Sushi?
It appears a lack of Librium can also lead to delusions of divine intelligence or an indicator of issues with low self-esteem which is evident by the attempts to impersonate others to solicit their desires for recognition or praise.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:45 am
was in the middle of the Indian Ocean… at $75 bucks for a 4 hour fishing trip for 4 people. guys were out about every other day catching lots of wahu, yello fin, mahi, and lots of others! The catch was pretty much shared amongst all… and there were some Navy peeps I hung with that were well trained sushi makers! what a terrible place to deploy!
June 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am
G, you are making me hungry.
I don’t live in Shreve, but Houston has lots of good sushi spots.
June 15th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I really have tried to like sushi but don’t. Would love some tips for fish on the grill.
June 15th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Regarding CrossFit, when we lived in VA, I traveled about 3+ hours to Charlottesville to participate in a workout by a guy named Barry Ross - think he is still quite well-known, but his routine was, by far, the hardest of any I have ever done.
We would ride a stationary bike for 2 minutes very hard (to aerobic threshold) and then get off and do series of strength exercises - the class involved some very elementary strength work such as push-ups, squat hops, arm curls with a rubber cord, chair dips, and other resistance work with a rubber cord, bowling pins or an empty milk jug partially filled with water. Then after 60 - 120 seconds of these strength exercises, we would get back on the bike for another 2 minutes and get heart rate back up again.
It was a great routine and seems somewhat like the CrossFit program. From toxic Sherri to buffed Sherri!!!!!!!!
June 15th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I’m a Philadelphia roll girl myself! (That’s salmon, avocado, and cream cheese.)
Mel- It’s definately an acquired taste! My first experience was NOT a good one so I wouldn’t eat it forever. But now I LOVE it!
June 15th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Sherri- Are we doing CrossFit now? Or am I still training for a marathon… or a swimathon?
June 15th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Haaaaaaa…Jody, it appears we aren’t training for much of anything because you and me can’t seem to nail down a program we think we can stay with! Since we’re relentless in the persuit of whatever we finally focus on, once we decide we’re in…watch out! BTW, Jody and I are not taking suggestions. What if
Okay, I have so tried to like sushi…I still have issues. I like just about anything else healthy!
Mel, when you come over today, I’ll pull out my salmon on the grill recipes for you. You’ll love them! Also, HRB taught me how to marinate/grill shrimp that’ll put you in a coma.
June 15th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
There is a place here in Houston called Blue Fin….there you can learn to eat sushi. Come visit and I’ll show you. I guarantee even the worst sushi issues can be alleviated there.
June 15th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
What fun, HRB…a nutrition vacation! I’m doing this on my next free weekend.
June 15th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I keep trying to get Sherri to bring me to Houston. I want to lay out by the pool. We can then take a bronze buff bods to Blue Fin.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Sherri, why won’t you bring Mel to Houston. We can alwasy use more bronze buff bods.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I have a runner’s tan, similar to that of a trucker. It’s not a pretty sight. Kim is already queasy. I’d hate to make it worse, but will look at dates for possible travel since we’re family. Thanks for the invite.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Count me in! Let’s go before we have to babysit! (just kidding)
July 18th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Sherri-
We are in the process of brining CrossFit to Shreveport!! Right now we organize a FREE Saturday morning workout at A.C. Steere Park, at 9 am. We will go over the basic movements and ideas behind CrossFit, as well as a workout. Our group is a mix of all ages and levels. We provide a fun and supportive group, sharing our knowledge of CrossFit with everyone. We encourage you and your friends to come give it a try! Sherri, if you want to be put on our weekly email, drop us a line at our email and we would love to keep you in the loop!
Thanks,
Cam
July 18th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Awesome! Will do!