Do Your Mobility or DieWe have only only more week in our October Mobility Challenge. We will retest your mobility via the free GOWOD Mobility Assessment next week. The most improved man and most improved woman will win a prize. We will also award a prize to the athlete with the highest mobilization time. Debbie has surged to the top this week. Will she maintain her position? If you really want to make a difference in your body, you need to move it every day. You can, of course, just do the mobility we do at the gym, you can go to yoga, or you can follow the simple GOWOD mobility at home every day. Improving your mobility will improve every single other thing you do in life. Regaining and maintaining the full range of motion of all your joints and tissues is just as important as rowing fast, lifting heavy shit or even getting your first pull-up.
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What's for Dinner?There is one question that every single human on earth asks themself every single day. What's for Dinner? We all must eat. Some of us cook for ourselves and others have their food cooked for them (lucky you!) But, we all must eat. Last week I shared Michael Easter's Costco shopping list. It is possible to eat well on a budget! One of the key takeaways for healthy eating from his book Scarcity Brain is to avoid high and ultra processed foods. Michael Easter talked to many subject matter experts and travelled to the Amazon to discover what healthy people eat. He spent a week eating with the a tribe of people who have ZERO heart disease. This is remarkable since heart disease is the NUMBER ONE killer of Americans. Heart disease kills more people than all other diseases COMBINED! Your diet, what you eat, is by far the biggest contributor of increased risk of heart disease, and one type of food in particular is the biggest contributor: high and ultra high-processed foods. What is a high or ultra high processed food? It's something that has more than one other processed ingredient. Here's a nice visual from Stephanie Kay Nutrition: Nearly all food gets processed, e.g. it gets cooked, before we eat it. But the foods that are the real problem are the ones that have multiple other processed ingredients and go through many processing methods before we eat them. Delicious foods like candy, potato chips. hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, tacos, breakfast cereal, yogurt with added fruits, meat nuggets, meat sticks, soft drinks, etc. You get the picture. In Scarcity Brain, Michael Easter found that people who eat mostly single ingredient foods, meat, fish, fowl, vegetables, fruit, and rice lived the longest and had the lowest risk for heart disease. Michael Pollan, another well-researched food journalist and professor, agrees. We should eat food that looks like food. If it has a face, comes from the ground, grows on a stem, or IS the stem, eat more of that. To help get cooking with all the delicious single ingredient foods we bought last week at Costco, let's cook something delectable from my favorite source for recipes straight from the farm, Dishing up the Dirt. Click on the image below for a fabulous pork and Autumn harvest vegetable stew. It's just the type of delicious cooking we can do to make our hearts happy. Faith, Elisa and Leslie are competing in the Tactical Games in Texas Nov 3-5. Bethanie and Nicole are also going to volunteer. Here is a look back at Faith's first TTG in Utah in May 2023. Just Say, Hell Yes! |
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