Workout of the Day:
Push Press
3-3-3-3-3
Previous Push Press
July 30th (1RM)
May 1st (3RM)
November 8th (3RM)
then
Max Pull Up Test – how many pull ups can you get in a single set. Make three attempts and post totals to comments.
Row 500m. Post times to comments.
Captain Steve of Salt Lake City
ME Day again,
Back Squat 3-3-3-3-3
80-85-90-95-100
Started too low with 80kg but I wanted to be sure I was getting the bar position right.
First time squatting triple figures though! Really looking forward to next weeks singles now!
Shane, I guess we have to draw the line somewhere on HG lifestyle emulation, and walking 70 miles per week for no clear purpose would be a deal-breaker for me. I just don’t have enough audiobooks for that.
I haven’t read any data on the subject of daily ranges, and now that you’ve brought it up I’d be interested to see what’s out there, but my first thoughts are that if I was a nomad and I found myself walking 10 miles every day to get food, I would probably move my camp closer to the food.
If we found that walking dozens of mies per week had some clear health/performance benefit.that wasn’t available from 5-6 crossfit WODs a week, I’d be all ears. But just doing it for the sake of it would be asking a lot.
At the end of the day, I don’t eat Paleo just because the best available data indicates that hunter-gathers did something like it, I do it because it cures me of acne, insomnia, fatness, weakness and assorted respiratory bullshit (ask Colm about my snoring on trips where I’ve eaten grains vs those where I haven’t sometime).
The focus has to be on the measurable, observable, repeatable stuff.
It’s very cool and compelling that we have this Paleo model to hang all our fitness and nutrition stuff on, but you’re not going to catch me running around in the nip and fecking rocks at people just for the sake of it (my college days are over).
Big Shane,
For some reason I didn’t hit return with my post earlier.
Anyway, Steve is a captain of the Fire Fighters, and trains recruits. The Kyle’s name should not be abbreviated, as each letter is as important as the last, if not more so.
I quite enjoy your long posts, please keep them up!
As for walking, few things feel like a bigger waste of my valuable time than strolling. I see your point, but in this work-a-day world who has time to walk for any reasonable distance.
However, maybe you should walk a bit more instead of sending that email. Stroll to Spar for lunch instead of driving 2 minutes (people in Nestle actually do this) etc.
Great to have Michael up in the gym tonight. Really excited about CrossFit. Will, I’ve asked him to pop down Saturday as well so you can meet him.
Just regarding the whole HG walking for distance thing:
I read a while back that aside from the nomadism aspect early man might have hunted well away from where he was living, in order to keep game available more locally should some disaster happen restricting how far he could ordinarily travel, or also in case food became scarce during winter.
But I figure these guys would not have had time to walk and assumed they would be running / loping these distances?
This kind of thing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4021811.stm
“Today endurance running is primarily a form of exercise and recreation but its roots may be as ancient as the origin of the human genus and its demands a major contributing factor to the human body form.
“Running may have helped hunters get close enough to throw projectiles or perhaps even to run some mammals to exhaustion in the heat.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041123163757.htm
(Incidentally I’m not suggesting that even if there were anything to these kinds of studies we should be doing LSD, as in long slow distance work)
One other thing I wondered is that if you travel 15k and end up with a carcass of a deer or whatever at your feet, presumably you’ve then got to cart that 60kg (or whatever) of meat back home. Must have been somethig to look forward to.
Sorry been delayed in putting these up
Ruairi: 65-67.5-70-72.5; 17,14,10; 1:33.0
Robbie: 50-55-60-62.5-65(f) (5RM Back Squats); 4,4,3; 1:43.0
Shane 1.0: 40-45-50-55-60(F); 14,10; 1:42.5
Big Shane: 40-45-50-55-60(F); 20,19; 1:44.0
Scott: 40-50-60-60; 10,16; 1:45.2
Michael: 50-55-60-65-75; 28,22; 1:27.6
Deirdre: 30-32.5-35-35-37.5; 1:51.0
Eoin: 40-50(2)-45-47.5-48.5; 5,4,3; 1:57.6
James: 40-50(1)-45-47.5-48.5; 10,7,4; 2:00.4
Marty: 40-50(2)-45-47.5(1)-46; 1:53.3
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