The New York City Health Department has stepped up its fight against soda with a new, incredibly disgusting commercial.
The ad continues this past summer's series of posters that depicted soda and other liquids turning into fat in a glass, asking "Are you pouring on the pounds?"
This video shows a man happily drinking a glassful of liquid fat, letting the chunky lipids drip down his face. If that's not enough to gross viewers out, the commercial ends with what appears to be 10 pounds of fat dropping onto a plate.
According to Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City Health Commissioner, the video is "playful, but its message is serious." Playful? Revolting might be a better word for it.
Farley points out that "sugar-sweetened beverages" are very much behind the "obesity epidemic, and obesity is disabling millions of New Yorkers. If this campaign shifts habits even slightly, it could have real health benefits."
Workout
"Lynne" 5x max reps of: Body weight bench press Pull-ups
On the minute: Perform 2 Power Cleans on the minute for 15 minutes.
*Start the clock. At the top of every minute perform 2 Power Cleans. *Use a maximal weight. 80% - 85% of 1 RM *For every rep not completed, perform 5 Burpees at the end of the session....
For time 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet: Deadlift: 1 1/2 body weight Bench press: body weight Clean: 3/4 body weight
Set up three bars and storm through for time - Linda is a daunting workout.
My first attempt took over an hour. SCALE this baby especially if it is your first attempt. There are several ways to scale this workout. One can do just the even reps and or lower the percentages of your body weight used for each lift.
One of the tricks I use is to remind myself that after I complete the round of 8, I am almost half way done.
Post time and weights used to the comments section.
On the minute: Perform 2 Power Cleans on the minute for 15 minutes.
*Start the clock. At the top of every minute perform 2 Power Cleans. *Use a maximal weight. 80% - 85% of 1 RM *For every rep not completed, perform 5 Burpees at the end of the session....
JB with a great "Rack" position and KTF with a great start of a Clean
KTF's "Rack" Position and JT's Jerk...Nice work guys...
Workout
On the minute: Perform 2 Power Cleans on the minute for 15 minutes.
*Start the clock. At the top of every minute perform 2 Power Cleans. *Use a maximal weight. 80% - 85% of 1 RM *For every rep not completed, perform 5 Burpees at the end of the session....
Targeting Belly Fat Here's a study that came out late last year:
Irving et al. Effect of exercise training intensity on abdominal visceral fat and body composition. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2008 Nov;40(11):1863-72.
The study consisted of three groups:
No exercise
Low intensity aerobic exercise (5 days per week low intensity)
High intensity (above Lactate threshold) exercise (3 days high intensity, 2 days low)
The exercise groups burned the exact same calories (so exercise time was adjusted down in the higher intensity group.
At the sixteen week point the high intensity group had significantly reduced abdominal fat The low intensity group saw no changes.
It's clear that if you want to target belly fat - a higher intensity training program works better. But here's the take home advice -- these researchers adjusted the time down in the high intensity group (so that calories burned were the same) - for example only doing 20 mins instead of 30 mins.
For Lynne as rx'd, each "round" is 5 minutes long.
Start your BP on the minute, complete as many as possible without racking the weight. Once you have completed the BP, start your Pull-ups. Complete as many Pull-ups as possible (your set is complete once you release the bar). Now rest for what remains of the original 5 minutes (e.g. if it takes you 2 minutes to BP and do the Pull-ups, rest 3 minutes). Repeat 4 more time. Got it? (As an aside...do the exercise that you are weakest in first. E.g. for me, that of course means I do pull-ups before bench pressing)
Yesterday we had the pleasure of sharing CrossFit and fitness with our new friends at Midwest Ambulance Service. I hope they enjoyed the passionate speech on fitness and they see discover the benefits of functional movements.
Don't you love when HQ programs BP!
Workout For time: Row 500 meters Body weight Bench press*, 30 reps
Row 1000 meters Body weight Bench press, 20 reps
Row 2000 meters Body weight Bench press, 10 reps
* Of course we want you to scale if necessary. If you do not have access to or cannot perform BWT BP, add 40% CTD standard push-ups to the total number of reps (meaning perform 42, 28 and 14) or 60% more to the total if your push-ups are from your knees (meaning 58, 32, 16).
Or use 60% of your BP 1RM for all 50 reps. This is your workout, remember...
For Lynne as rx'd, each "round" is 5 minutes long.
Start your BP on the minute, complete as many as possible without racking the weight. Once you have completed the BP, start your Pull-ups. Complete as many Pull-ups as possible (your set is complete once you release the bar). Now rest for what remains of the original 5 minutes (e.g. if it takes you 2 minutes to BP and do the Pull-ups, rest 3 minutes). Repeat 4 more time. Got it? (As an aside...do the exercise that you are weakest in first. E.g. for me, that of course means I do pull-ups before bench pressing)
We all need work on our Push-ups. Pick a lift (e.g. Press, Bench, HSPU, etc...) and do 5 sets of 5 reps at 85% of your 1RM. After your 5th set, knock out as many push-ups as you can.
Workout "Lynne" 5x max reps of: Body weight bench press Pull-ups
For Lynne as rx'd, each "round" is 5 minutes long.
Start your BP on the minute, complete as many as possible without racking the weight. Once you have completed the BP, start your Pull-ups. Complete as many Pull-ups as possible (your set is complete once you release the bar). Now rest for what remains of the original 5 minutes (e.g. if it takes you 2 minutes to BP and do the Pull-ups, rest 3 minutes). Repeat 4 more time. Got it? (As an aside...do the exercise that you are weakest in first. E.g. for me, that of course means I do pull-ups before bench pressing)
Workout "Lynne" - Five rounds for max reps of: Body weight bench press Pull-ups
For Lynne as rx'd, each "round" is 5 minutes long.
Start your BP on the minute, complete as many as possible without racking the weight. Once you have completed the BP, start your Pull-ups. Complete as many Pull-ups as possible (your set is complete once you release the bar). Now rest for what remains of the original 5 minutes (e.g. if it takes you 2 minutes to BP and do the Pull-ups, rest 3 minutes). Repeat 4 more time. Got it? (As an aside...do the exercise that you are weakest in first. E.g. for me, that of course means I do pull-ups before bench pressing)Post reps for both exercises in all rounds
For time 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet: Deadlift: 1 1/2 body weight Bench press: body weight Clean: 3/4 body weight
Set up three bars and storm through for time - Linda is a daunting workout.
My first attempt took over an hour. SCALE this baby especially if it is your first attempt. There are several ways to scale this workout. One can do just the even reps and or lower the percentages of your body weight used for each lift.
One of the tricks I use is to remind myself that after I complete the round of 8, I am almost half way done.
Post time and weights used to the comments section.
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I have competed in a number of sports–football, track and field, biking, and power lifting to name a few. Like many, while competing and training for sports, I had my fair share of pains and injuries. I attributed those mounting pains and injuries to age and bad luck.
I have also wasted a great deal of time and energy doing un-necessary things, like 60 minute lifecycle sessions, leg extensions, calf raises (yet I still have VERY small calfs), bench press 3x per week, pec deck and the like.
I did all those things thinking I was making myself more fit - silly me. All those leg extensions gave me knee pain. All of the bench pressing helps when I need to push a car out of the snow, but has little real life applications and gave me sore shoulders. All of the slow motion, wasted time on the lifecycle made me less fit, yet the lifecycle monitor told me I was burning hundreds of calories.
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