CrossFit – American River CrossFit in Sacramento

Things were bangin’ at the ‘ol box yesterday.  The veterans got after the row-burpee-press WOD with a vengeance and everyone was supporting each other through this quick but brutal workout.  We also had a whole bunch of newbies show up and get a taste of high intensity training and everyone did really well.  Elisa, Randy and I had a good time working with you guys and gals and hope to see a lot of you back here soon!

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Plan on sitting down in front of the tube today to watch the Saints and Colts in the Super Bowl?  If you’re attending an SB party you can expect to find some not so healthy food and drink choices around there.  I’m not saying don’t suck down a brew or two, but watch out for the nachos, wings, jalapeno poppers, chili, cheetos, hot dog combination platter!

Found this article about what is consumed during the big game:

How much do we eat? Almost 15,000 tons of chips and 4,000 tons of popcorn. To take these out of rational perspective, lining up each and every chip would produce a trail of almost 293,000 miles (not quite 1-1/2 times the distance to the moon, or six feet per American). Meanwhile, a popcorn string consisting of all that popcorn would ring the Earth almost 5-1/2 times-take that, Saturn!

The real winner in terms of food sales has got to be the avocado, however. The California Avocado Commission cites impressive numbers indeed for their Super Sunday: Some 12 million pounds of avocado are sold in preparation for the game so that Americans may gorge themselves on an estimated eight million pounds of guacamole. The only better time for avocado hockers is Cinco de Mayo. If you took all those avocado and lined ‘em up … ah, forget it.

Then there’s the following day; hey, there’s a reason they don’t call it “Super Monday” and another good excuse for an official three-day weekend. 7-Eleven claims a whopping 20 percent in sales of antacid the day after the Super Bowl. Also important to remember: Statistics show that six percent of all working Americans will call in sick the day after the Bowl. Figuring in the above number regarding average party attendance, this means that just over one person per gathering will whine to the boss on Monday. If you’re partying with colleagues, you might want to take an informal poll before having that umpteenth brewski.

Oh, and don’t forget there’s a game on.

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02/07/2010

Rest Day

Great week of work everybody!  Lots of PR’s during the 1 rep max lifts.  See ya’ll Monday!

Tags: CrossFit, WOD

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