Archive for March, 2010

Here at CrossFit Santa Rosa we are committed to bringing you the best equipment possible. Starting next week we will add a new piece to our arsenal, The Shake Weight. Now you may question the validity of this instrument because its recently been catching lots of attention on TV. The Shake Weight however is a fitness revolution. By harnessing the power of “dynamic inertia” the shake weight provides you an unrivaled workout stimulus. Dynamic inertia was something davinci sketched and wrote about but could not construct, like the helicopter. Utilizing this breakthrough in technology the shake weight provides you a “240 rep per minute” rate of workoutness, that’s CRAZY!

The shakeweight was used by the Bulgarian weightlifting team when they dominated on the World Stage. Olympic officials, when searching their bags for steroids, instead found The Shake Weight. It is “Science Fact” and time tested by every other weightlifting team on the planet.

Again, please approach this with an open mind. This would appear to fly in the face of CrossFit’s excercise criteria, but this is an exception Jo and I are willing to make.

Please note that we will be closed Saturday, March 27th. We’re headed to the NorCal Sectional Qualifiers for the 2010 CrossFit Games! Check that link for updates over the weekend, and also check the CrossFit main page over the next several days, as there’s likely to be some video from the NorCal qualifiers posted there.

Thomas already posted A thought, or two, on sleep, but Mark Sisson over at Mark’s Daily Apple recently posted a new Definitive Guide to Sleep. This is a must read, people. Seriously. Read it. And go ahead a follow any of the dozens of links he’s provided, ’cause there’s some good stuff there too.

Lastly, you know how Thomas and I tell you to take fish oil? We give you a formula -1 gram for every 10 pounds of lean body mass- but that means you need to calculate your lean body mass, then see how many grams there are per dose of your fish oil and, well, even I just end up taking a few handfuls every day, not really paying good attention to the quantity. Well the good folks at Whole Nine have come up with an online calculator to figure out just how much of your brand of fish oil you need to be taking, based on your current diet and lifestyle. It’s the Robb Wolf Fish Oil Calculator, named after NorCal’s own nutrition guru Robb Wolf (whose website is linked in our right column). I’m supposed to take between 14 and 20 pills a day, depending on how beat up I am. And I thought my couple handfuls was a lot!

Cheer us on from afar over the weekend! Or if you’re feeling up for an adventure, come on down to the qualifiers in San Jose. Spectator tickets are now only $15 a person for Saturday – check here for more info. If we don’t see you there, see you next week at the box!