This Wed night, May 12, at 7:00pm we will have our monthly Level I nutrition talk. Don’t forget folks, the table is where you will really start to lean out if that is your goal. The table is where your recovery happens from your workouts. The table is where you build your energy and stamina for your workouts. Those of you in stagnation nation with your personal fitness goals NEED TO GET ME A FOOD JOURNAL!!!
As always, my Paleo Intro lectures are free and open to the public. Bring your friends and your family.
It is fascinating to me that there is a whole avalanche of former zealous vegans now taking up hunting as if it is the newest clever pursuit. Check out this guy: http://www.danielvitalis.com/ . He isn’t the only one either.
Talk about a pendulum swing. I for one, can be glad I was raised by generations of men (in my case it was really only the men) who regularly practised the job of raising and butchering or tracking and hunting (or fishing for) our own meat. It wasn’t glorified or intellectualized. It just was done. It was done with a vast storehouse of knowledge about the wilderness and ecology and the habits of animals. It involved a huge body of knowledge about how to dress and butcher and store and transport out of the woods, the body of a large animal. But, guess what? No tribal tattoos were involved!! Mostly a lot of crazily early, cold mornings, wool clothes and thermoses of hot coffee. My Dad talks about being a kid and going duck hunting. In November. On the coast of Maine. Below freezing temps. Wet and in a boat. Doing the work of a man. There wasn’t complaining involved if I know my grandfather. I think our kids are being raised so softened. What the heck does this have to do with CrossFit and eating Paleo? CrossFit toughens you up and makes you used to physical discomfort and Paleo requires developing a relationship with the life and death cycles involved in the food you eat. Or we could go duck hunting in Maine this fall.
Sign me up for the duck hunting this fall, PLEASE. I relate to exactly what you said about the early morning, cold, uncomfortable hunting trips but at the same time the very best times of my life. I can’t think of anything else I would rather do. (Except Crossfit, of course) Getting out and observing the natural habits of wild game is definitely something I suggest for everyone. Go get toughened up and be outside your comfort zone. It’s worth every second!
Reading all this and seeing that t-shirt, I just bit a hole in my desk. ‘Ats right, it’s wooden. I too remember cold mornings in Wisconsin shivering in a duck blind, waiting. One time a load of mallards landed on the pond. Dad reached over to flick off the safety on his 12 gauge twice barrel and accidentally discharged both barrels about three inches from his face. He kinda looked a little like Earnest Hemingway at that time, before the shotgun. The best was going on a midnight raccoon hunt. Yum.
Hey Jen, did you see that DNA study that found modern man and Neanderthals “intermarried?” We really did just step out of caves.
Great post, Jen. I couldn’t agree with you more. I plan to go out and drag things home to eat more often. I will be putting in an archery range at my house later this year- let me know if anyone is interested and we can get together and practice shooting. Drinks only after practice- not during : ) ACTUALLY- what would really be cool is to have a HUNTER-GATHERER WOD where we mimic movements (chasing, shooting, dressing, carrying, etc) of a hunt and have a bow component and grade on accuracy… ANY TAKERS, CAVE-PEEPS?
…grade on accuracy with your heart pounding out of your chest…within a time constraint…
Chauncey, Count me in! Training for the unexpected just got even more exciting. I would be happy to help with any range prep as well. The Hunter-Gatherer WOD would help any hunter be more accurate be leaps and bounds.
A common term is “buck fever” where that heart seems to beat harder and faster when you have something in your crosshairs. It causes missed shots and wounded animals (not good). Any practice is good practice. Why not do it for time and accuracy.
What an awesome idea Chauncey! I’m in too. Jen may remember me sharing one of my main CF training goals, to be able to draw and shoot an English war bow, 100 lb pull. Not there yet. Here’s a sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsbp4w-4E68 Some of those bows are 125 lb pull. Wish we had yew trees here. We could go out, cut down a yew branch with our stone axes, string it with some hemp and sinew, and practice one hundred shots. Then go huntin’. I love archery. I have a long bow 75 lb pull that really likes to go. Wooden arrows only. None of those compound pulleys, peep sites, and titanium arrows for me. When do we do this Archery WOD!?!?! Do we get to see Robin Hood afterward?
You guys are making me all excited. Will one of you organize something like this?? I don’t know what Tucson has for resources, options, rules and regulations, but if you do the planning I’ll do the showing up and the recruiting of others. Yes, Stephen, I absolutely remember that training goal and was thinking about it recently.