I am sure that most of you have heard about fish oil or flax seed oils. What’s the purpose for these oils some may ask? Well I am here to give you guys a quick run down on these oils, but two key words or acronyms that you need to remember are eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and Docosahexaenoic (DHA).

Let’s start by looking into our own bodies. The brain alone is composed by 60% of fat. This fat in the brain is DHA fat. This is why it makes sense to eat fat to fuel the bodies and brain. That is yet another reason why the Zone and Paleo diets are the lifestyle among Crossfitters.

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Many people come to me with questions regarding how often they should workout. Although CrossFit suggests a three days on and one day off cycle, like anything in life, I say it depends.

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Let’s start of with some basic physics. Work is equal to force times distance (W=F*D). Power output is equal to work per unit time (P=W/T). Power output or “intensity” is also directly correlated to fitness. Increased fitness is really an increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains. Basically the more stuff you can move and the faster you can do it, the fitter you are. Intensity is therefore the key to maximizing fitness.

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By: Chris Vranes

In the past 5-10 years I have been reading just about every diet book I could find (Fit For Life, Atkins, Diabetics, South Beach, etc.), and testing the theories on myself. After this long journey of studying and experimentation, I felt that I had a clue as to what worked for me, and what didn’t. I also felt that I had a slight clue as to how the human body processes nutrients, and why the things that worked for me made sense. The only problem is that there was this massive grey area in my research due to all the contradictions from one diet book to the other.

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When the word “Fitness” comes to my mind or “Being Fit”, I think of being big in size and have great composition, very low body fat, seeing every definition of muscle on my body and overall looking like a so called “bodybuilder” That was over 3 years ago and I was completely wrong and some what brainwashed, thinking that if I look like a guy on the cover of latest “Fitness” magazine or had 22inch biceps then I must “fit”….. I’ve always been the type of person that wanted to try new and exciting things especially in dealing with fitness; I’ve always challenged myself in every aspect in life. I was training/ prepping myself for the Police service and I thought being Big, and strong is what Fitness was especially within the police service, “the bigger you are the fitter you are”……I was SOOOOO wrong, my eyes opened up really quickly and I got a reality check on what “fitness” really means. Read more…

There is a lot of controversy about CrossFit. As a Coach I have heard it all now. “CrossFit doesn’t work because it’s too short”, “CrossFit is only for some people”, “How long do you possible think you can CrossFit for”.

Just this week I was asked; “How does CrossFit compare to a high-moderate intensity workout at the gym?” Great question and to answer that question here is my blog for this week. Read more…

The more and more you train for life with CrossFit. The more you will want to improve your health all around. Nutrition can seem to be a very tricky area to master. That is mainly because we just don’t know what to do due to all the trends in diet or gimmicks.

There is no exact answer to say that eating “x” amount of this or that will make you the ideal specimen. What can be said is that there are guidelines in how we should eat. Paleo and Zone friendly are words used in any CrossFit gym. This is simply because it has been tested/proven on many elite athletes like yoursef and has come back always with positive results. Read more…

I overheard a conversation between a couple of my friends the other day talking about their current gym memberships, and why they chose these particular gyms. The conversation sounded like “every treadmill has its own TV… so many people I know go there… it’s so close to home… they have long hours so I can go anytime… the change room has a sauna and tanning bed… and it is cheaper than other gyms.” As this conversation continued, I noticed one outrageous similarity between all of their reasons; they had NOTHING to do with fitness!

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We would like to thank the many people that came out to our open house yesterday.   It was amazing to feel the positive energy from the crowd; all of you helped to make it a great success!  We hope everyone enjoyed the perfect weather, food, and great company as much as we did at CrossFit Waterloo. Read more…

Everything you’ve done up until this point of your life, has got you exactly where you are right now. Everything you do today will bring you somewhere tomorrow. If you feel out of shape, overweight, and even worse unhealthy… you need to change what you do today.

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