Take 15 minutes to work on kipping or butterfly pullups
If you have both of these….. perform Dead Hang Pullups or Weighted Dead Hang Pullups, 12 sets of 5
then….
For time: (including the rest periods)
15-12-9
kettlebell swings(53lb/35lb)
burpees
Rest 2 minutes
12-9-6
kettlebell swings(53lb/35lb)
burpees
Rest 1 minute
9-6-3
kettlebell swings(53lb/35lb)
burpees
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Coaches Choice
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The 2nd Paleo Challenge starts this Sunday, 15 Jan 2012. $20 and measurements must be given to Vanny by Saturday, 14 Jan 2012 (all can be done at the Potluck). Also, come and join CFI’s Paleo Potluck this Saturday. You will be able to talk to others who have already started the diet regarding what to eat, recipe ideas, how to cope, etc. If you are attending the Pot Luck, please post your dish on this blog!
Take 15 minutes to work on kipping or butterfly pullups
If you have both of these….. perform Dead Hang Pullups or Weighted Dead Hang Pullups, 10 sets of 5
-rest as needed
then….
For time:
Run 800m
30 squat clean (155lb/105lb)
30 toes-to-bar
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Why McDonald’s Happy Meal hamburgers won’t decompose – the real story behind the story
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) It’s always entertaining when the mainstream media “discovers” something they think is new even though the natural health community has been talking about for years. The New York Times, for example, recently ran a story entitled When Drugs Cause Problems They Are Supposed to Prevent. We’ve been covering the same topic for years, reporting on how chemotherapy causes cancer, osteoporosis drugs cause bone fractures and antidepressant drugs cause suicidal behavior.
The latest “new” discovery by the mainstream media is that McDonald’s Happy Meal hamburgers and fries won’t decompose, even if you leave them out for six months. This story has been picked up by CNN, the Washington Post and many other MSM outlets which appear startled that junk food from fast food chains won’t decompose.
The funny thing about this is that the natural health industry already covered this topic years ago. Remember Len Foley’s Bionic Burger video? It was posted in 2007 and eventually racked up a whopping 2 million views on YouTube. And this video shows a guy who bought his McDonald’s hamburgers in 1989 — burgers that still haven’t decomposed in over two decades!
Now, he has an entire museum of non-decomposed burgers in his basement.
Did the mainstream media pick up on this story? Nope. Not a word. The story was completely ignored. It was only in 2010 when an artist posted a story about a non-decomposing McDonald’s hamburger from six months ago that the news networks ran with the story.
Check out the video link above and you’ll see an entire museum of Big Macs and hamburgers spanning the years — none of which have decomposed.
This is especially interesting because the more recent “Happy Meal Project” which only tracks a burger for six months has drawn quite a lot of criticism from a few critics who say the burgers will decompose if you give them enough time. They obviously don’t know about the mummified burger museum going all the way back to 1989. This stuff never seems to decompose!
Why don’t McDonald’s hamburgers decompose?
So why don’t fast food burgers and fries decompose in the first place? The knee-jerk answer is often thought to be, “Well they must be made with so many chemicals that even mold won’t eat them.” While that’s part of the answer, it’s not the whole story.
The truth is many processed foods don’t decompose and won’t be eaten by molds, insects or even rodents. Try leaving a tub of margarine outside in your yard and see if anything bothers to eat it. You’ll find that the margarine stays seems immortal, too!
Potato chips can last for decades. Frozen pizzas are remarkably resistant to decomposition. And you know those processed Christmas sausages and meats sold around the holiday season? You can keep them for years and they’ll never rot.
With meats, the primary reason why they don’t decompose is their high sodium content. Salt is a great preservative, as early humans have known for thousands of years. McDonald’s meat patties are absolutely loaded with sodium — so much so that they qualify as “preserved” meat, not even counting the chemicals you might find in the meat.
To me, there’s not much mystery about the meat not decomposing. The real question in my mind is why don’t the buns mold? That’s the really scary part, since healthy bread begins to mold within days. What could possibly be in McDonald’s hamburger buns that would ward off microscopic life for more than two decades?
As it turns out, unless you’re a chemist you probably can’t even read the ingredients list out loud. Here’s what McDonald’s own website says you’ll find in their buns:
Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, enzymes), water, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, yeast, soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated soybean oil, contains 2% or less of the following: salt, calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, wheat gluten, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, dough conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate, datem, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated monoglycerides, monocalcium phosphate, enzymes, guar gum, calcium peroxide, soy flour), calcium propionate and sodium propionate (preservatives), soy lecithin.
Great stuff, huh? You gotta especially love the HFCS (diabetes, anyone?), partially-hydrogenated soybean oil (anybody want heart disease?) and the long list of chemicals such as ammonium sulfate and sodium proprionate. Yum. I’m drooling just thinking about it.
Now here’s the truly shocking part about all this: In my estimation, the reason nothing will eat a McDonald’s hamburger bun (except a human) is because it’s not food!
No normal animal will perceive a McDonald’s hamburger bun as food, and as it turns out, neither will bacteria or fungi. To their senses, it’s just not edible stuff. That’s why these bionic burger buns just won’t decompose.
Which brings me to my final point about this whole laughable distraction: There is only one species on planet Earth that’s stupid enough to think a McDonald’s hamburger is food. This species is suffering from skyrocketing rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dementia and obesity. This species claims to be the most intelligent species on the planet, and yet it behaves in such a moronic way that it feeds its own children poisonous chemicals and such atrocious non-foods that even fungi won’t eat it (and fungi will eat cow manure, just FYI).
Care to guess which species I’m talking about?
That’s the real story here. It’s not that McDonald’s hamburgers won’t decompose; it’s that people are stupid enough to eat them. But you won’t find CNN reporting that story any time soon.
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Shoulder Press, 8 sets of 5, using 60-70% of your 1-rep max
-each set starts on the minute
then….
3 rounds for time:
Run 400m
18 pushups
18 kettlebell swings (53lb/35lb)
then…. at exactly 15 minutes after the start of the first 400m run…..
3 rounds for time:
Run 400m
18 pushups
18 kettlebell swings (53lb/35lb)
Core Development:
30 GHD situps (unbroken, if you can)
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Overhead Squat, 5-5-5-5-5 reps
then….
AMRAP in 4 minutes:
3 power snatch (95lb/65lb)
5 overhead squat (95lb/65lb)
Note: All reps must be power snatch before beginning to overhead squat
Core Development:
3 minute plank hold (cumulative)
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Venue of the OC Throwdown this weekend!
Sprints, 10 sets of 50m
-sprint, walk back, sprint, walk back, etc
(warm up well, especially the hamstrings!)
then….
For time:
Run 1000m
Row 1000m
Push yourself! Run fast, row fast!
Core Development:
40 abmat situps
40 abmat reverse crunches
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From Coach Vanny
Want to be healthier, feel better, lose weight (if you have weight to lose), and increase your WOD performance? Try the Paleo Challenge for 30 days. Make the commitment and STAY COMMITTED. See how you change physically and mentally. The fun starts on Sunday, January 15th til February 13th.
What to eat:
Real Food – Meat, seafood, vegetables, some fruit, eggs, nuts, and seeds. Beef, pork, chicken, lamb, seafood, tuna, salmon, shrimp. Avocado, asparagus, arugula, spinach, broccoli, celery, any type of leafy green, red cabbage, artichoke. Berries, melon, pomegranate. Almonds, brazil nuts, walnuts.
Cook with real fats – lard or animal fat, coconut oil, grapeseed oil, and/or olive oil.
Stay away from:
Processed foods – pretty much anything in the middle of the grocery store. Does it grow or run around in the wild? If no, stay away! Rule of thumb, if it has more than 5 ingedients, stay away! The less ingredients, the better.
Sugar – any form of sugar is STILL SUGAR. No sweeteners, no agave nectar, honey or maple syrup.
Grains – this includes bread, rice, pasta, cereal, oatmeal, corn and all of those gluten-free pseudo-grains like quinoa and sprouted grains.
Legumes – peanuts, peanut-butter, beans, peas, lentils.
Dairy – milk, cheese, yogurt, etc.
Alcohol – stay away from sugary mixers, beer or alcohols containing gluten.
Dried fruits/starchy vegetables – dried fruit or white potatoes. Sweet potatoes are only consumed after a workout!
There is a $20 buy-in. If you complete the 30-days challenge, you will receive $10 back. The other half goes to Paleo Challenge winner, who earns the most points and lost the most weights and body inches. To join, pay your $20 and get your weight and measurements by January 14, 2012 and be ready to start eating Primal on the 15th of January. Log your entries on the Paleo Challenge Facebook Page (Facebook friend request Vanny Yib).
If you have any questions, consult any CFI coaches, current Paleo followers, or email me at vannyyib@gmail.com. There is a Paleo Pot Luck scheduled for Saturday, 14 Jan 2012, at the gym from 12:00pm-2:00pm.
For time:
1 clean & jerk (135lb/95lb)
1 round of “Cindy”
2 clean & jerk (135lb/95lb)
1 round of “Cindy”
All the way up to 10 rounds AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. (30 minute time limit)
Compare to 7/15/11
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