Shout out to the Get-Some Challengers.  I’ve seen you all working hard this week.  Ellie-you are stepping up with a new level of committment and I AM EXCITED!  Lots of pullups around, questions for your trainers-impressive.

In this [...]]]> Look-All men!!  I think they are worried about the outcome of the Get-Some Challenge

Shout out to the Get-Some Challengers.  I’ve seen you all working hard this week.  Ellie-you are stepping up with a new level of committment and I AM EXCITED!  Lots of pullups around, questions for your trainers-impressive.

In this world of eating well and training hard and in light of our Women’s Challenge, I want to distinguish the CrossFit Works philosophy from some other PISS POOR philosophies on training and eating.  As we all commit to good eating and getting fit, fitter and fittest lets all remember that inside the walls of this Affiliate we determine success by performance and feeling.  NOT BY APPEARANCE.  There is such a fine line sometimes between wanting to get lean, fast, strong and healthy and being disgruntled or sad when we don’t look a certain way.  Yes, it is fantastic when someone loses 15 or 20lbs because they stopped eating crap and started training hard.  The loss of that weight means they got healthier.  They didn’t get healthy because they lost weight.  They lost weight because they got healthy.  Know what I mean?  As the co-owner of this strength and conditioning facility I refuse to participate in the phenomenon by which we create negativity for people around their bodies.  I was deeply saddened to see, on the www.crossfit.com Affiliate blog a couple weeks ago, a picture of the blackboard from an Affiliate in Atlanta.  The board said “It’s simple.  If it jiggles then it’s fat.”  Well, what then?  The women I know and love have fat that jiggles.  They are strong, fast, powerful, kind, loving, dedicated.  They have birthed children, cared for partners, built businesses.  Whether or not they have jiggly fat somewhere is no body’s damn business (except those people with whom they get naked on a regular basis!) and does not have implication for their ability to fight off the flu or kick someone’s ass in a workout.

Remember that in this CrossFit Affiliate we strive for wellness and a better quality of life through hard playing.  Physical strength, mental strength and emotional strength are the goals.  Get strong in every way.  If you jiggle, make sure you’re jiggling while running faster than you’ve ever run before.  If you jiggle, make sure it is while you are doing sets of kipping pullups like lightning.  If you jiggle, do it while playing in the park with your kids.  Keep working hard.  You are awesome right now at this very moment.

So far, I’m guessing I have only touched the tip of the iceberg in terms of your food and [...]]]> Sincerest congratulations to all of you who have stuck with the focus on your food.  You are all doing different things, prioritizing different changes, struggling with different challenges but many of you are persevering impressively.

So far, I’m guessing I have only touched the tip of the iceberg in terms of your food and nutrition questions, but we’ll get there by the end.  I am still going to write to you about butter and fats and the Zone diet and gluten and lots of other things.  We’ll get more recipes, more ideas and more strategies.  Did anyone besides Chauncey, Tony’s family, Summer and Bruce and Carl and me go to see Food Inc.?  What did you think?  If you didn’t see it, would you be interested in seeing it here some night in the future?

Check out our girl Brenda at the Farmer’s Market!!with VEGETABLES!

I think it is a sure sign of a changed life when someone, who is not taking a photography class, takes pictures of vegetables!

 In order to focus more deliberately and attentively on the people who are really putting in effort I am going to take some of you off my email list.  If I have not heard from you this past month, you are off my 3 Month Nutrition Challenge email list.  I would like to be able to give additional personal attention to those people who are making this a priority at this exact moment in their lives.  I know that many of you will find later moments in your lives when you are ready to do this work and I will still be here then, waiting for you.  Some of you have asked for additional support in your process and don’t forget that Nikki is more than willing to call on her own years of experience and success changing her relationship to food and share her strategies with you, but it still comes down to you doing it.  No amount of talking it over with us every few days will put different food in your belly.  If you aren’t on Nikki’s email list and you would like to be, send me an email.

And I’m very surprised that I am not answering more questions about the information I leave on the white boards for you all because some of it is very very important and somewhat out of the ordinary way of thinking.  Ask me questions if you have them.

Keep your focus.  Let’s see what can happen in the next two months.