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Angie
November 25, 2008
“Angie”
For time:
100 Pull-ups
100 Push-ups
100 Sit-ups
100 Squats
BURPEE CHALLENGE: Day 63
Burpees to date = 1,953 – Today we go over 2,000!
Long hours on the treadmill, the stationary bike or the elliptical. It wasn’t effective and it sure wasn’t any fun. I don’t blame the not-to-be-named Athletic Club in Redmond, they don’t know any better. They have a business model that demands they not interact with their customers. Is more really better? Do you need to spend an hour (or more!) in the cardio room 5 times a week? At CrossFit Redmond we expect you to come in regularly and we hit our workouts with intensity so we don’t have to live in the cardio room. The following article makes a case against the current over reliance of long cardio sessions.
ARTICLE: A Case Against Cardio (from a former mileage king)
Unfortunately, the popular wisdom of the past 40 years – that we would all be better off doing 45 minutes to an hour a day of intense aerobic activity – has created a generation of overtrained, underfit, immune-compromised exerholics.
…this current popular high intensity aerobic pursuit is a dead-end. It requires huge amounts carbohydrate (sugar) to sustain, it promotes hyperinsulinemia (overproduction of insulin), increases oxidative damage (the production of free radicals) by a factor of 10 or 20 times normal, and generates high levels of the stress hormone cortisol in many people, leaving them susceptible to infection, injury, loss of bone density and depletion of lean muscle tissue – while encouraging their bodies to deposit fat. Far from that healthy pursuit we all assumed it was! What, then, is the answer? [link]
