Maelin and Heather partner deadlift for Anniversary Throwdown Workout #1. Today you're on your own. Good luck!
Today's Technique Tuesday video is with our favorite non-nonsense strength Coach, Mark Rippetoe. Today's heavy deadlifts will feel so much easier if you keep a vertical bar path. Your goal is to lift the bar from the floor in a straight path, any deviation from a straight line increases the vector forces on your body. You don't want to increase these, trust me. It's very common, if you're not engaging your lats to keep the bar close, for the barbell to drift away from the body with each rep. Take the time to place the barbell back over your mid-foot before you pull for each and every rep. This reduces the chance of injury, and ensures a straight bar path. Straight bar path, that's your goal, kind of like it was your goal to walk a straight path to the bar on Saturday night:-) â Are you Ready for the Bozeman Locavore Challenge?
For the month of August, strive to eat food (at least the main ingredients, not necessarily oils, spices, etc) that was grown/raised from within 100 miles of home. If your coffee was roasted here, or your beer made here, that counts!
Take a photo of your Locavore meal, upload it to this public group and tag all of the folks who grew, raised, or otherwise produced your food. The more photos you take and upload the higher your chance is of winning something. We will be awarding some prizes to folks who upload more than 60 photos and some prizes to folks who upload 30-60 photos. Be sure to join the Bozeman Locavore Facebook Group to participate.
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Jessie benches a moderate amount of weight:-) The Myth of "Everything in Moderation""Everything in moderation," is something I hear everyday and it makes me crazy. This ridiculous and illogical saying has gained traction in our culture of, "I deserve it," and today I'm calling bullshit on the myth of moderation.
The problem with "everything in moderation," is that it's a moving target. There is no objective, one size fits all, definitive Moderation. What we consider moderate while we're on the last week of the Whole Life Challenge and kicking ass, taking names, over 30 days of Paleo, Thank-You-Very-Much is VASTLY different than what we consider moderate in that last week of December between Christmas and New Year's Eve. Right? Think about that for a moment. If there wasn't a huge cavernous span in our decision between what's moderate now versus December 28th, we wouldn't need to be doing, yet another, Whole Life Challenge, or Whole30, or Isagenix cleanse, or any kind of time dependent fix-my-bad-decisions-challenge. "Everything in moderation," is a LIE that we tell ourselves to justify a decision we know is not moving us toward our goal. It is the justification we use to allow ourselves to eat the thing, drink the drink, take the days off from the gym, and do whatever we want to do right now, "'Cause YOLO." This simple lie enables us to dodge discipline, avoid accountability, and trick ourselves out of temperance. It is also used by other people to pressure us into a behavior that makes THEM feel better. Far too any times have I been pressured by friends, co-workers, and family to eat the cookies, cakes, pies, candy, etc., because it makes them feel better to see me do it. Why? Because my discipline makes people uncomfortable. Our actions and decisions often are a mirror for the people around us. So many times have I seen people wrestle with the consequences of their decisions once they see me stand-firm with mine. Our culture resolutely accepts that moderation does not work for an alcoholic. Rarely do you see people pressuring sober folks into having "just one, because everything in moderation, yo." Why do we not afford this same consideration to people who don't want to eat sugar? Or grains? Or meat? Or anything else about which they have personally decided that abstinence is their moderation? Everything in moderation is a myth because some things, even in moderation, will kill you. Everything in moderation is a myth because some things we need in more than moderate amounts, like 78% nitrogen and some in less than moderate amounts, like 21% oxygen. Everything in moderation is a myth because some things we want to achieve, i.e. our goals, require discipline. Everything in moderation is a myth that keeps us bound to the hell of our own status quo. Take a nap today, you've earned it.
Then take some time to consider this: "Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside" - Marcus Aurelius |
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