CFH Clean Eating Challenge 2017, are you in?
Below is a blog post about clean eating from Coach Alexa who is leading the clean eating challenge this year. Ready to sign up, click HERE!
“Once you change your mind, you have changed everything.”
This is one of my favorite quotes. It comes from a translation of an ancient yoga book written by a sage. Pretty deep stuff but it is universally applicable. Most of us have a decent idea of what clean eating means. Very generally speaking we know to avoid sugar, and other processed foods, eat lots of vegetables, ample protein, etc. So then why is it so hard to stick to? To me, the answer about this question is it’s all mental. If you come to CrossFit Federal Hill several times a week to work out, chances are you enjoy coming in. If you have made coming to this place a part of your lifestyle, I know that you don’t hate it. Sure, some weeks you come more than others, and some workouts feel better and worse than others, but you still show up and give it your best shot. For some of us fitness has been a part of our life for a long time, for others this is a new phenomena. Wherever you are at in this spectrum, if you have been successful at making this your routine, a mental shift occurred somewhere along the way where you stopped viewing exercise as something you had to or should be doing, and it became something you enjoyed. This enjoyment doesn’t always mean enjoyment of the work itself, but you enjoy something about it, whether it’s the people you do it with, or the feeling you get afterward. This mental shift is possible with anything at all in the world, including your diet. My goal in the clean eating challenge is not to change your diet for 6 weeks (although that will happen), but to change your mind about what it means to eat clean. My goal is to make the practice of clean eating something you do when it’s easy and when it feels good, and something you will fight to do during your most stressful weeks when you would otherwise throw your hands up in the air and say ” f*ck it.” If you think it can’t be done, or more specifically that YOU can’t do it, that is exactly why you should do it.
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Along with our split jerk cycle we will be working on a pull up progression cycle. There are two tracks, you should stick with one. Track 1- You do not have pull ups, or you have 1-3 pull ups, always drop from the bar and have trouble stringing them together. This will be the Strength cycle. Track 2- You can consistently get 5 pull ups every time you jump up on the bar even if it is in the middle of a WOD. The first thing we need to do is establish a baseline so we can show improvement. We will do this with an emom. If you consistently hit RX+ or you feel extremely comfortable jump on Track 2 and do it with chest to bar.
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