A helpful guide to Thanksgiving dining.

Happy Thanksgiving

If you already pay attention to what you eat and you workout constantly, staying as close to on track as possible won’t leave you with nearly as much damage control at the end of this time of year. You don’t need total restraint, a minor to moderate amount of restraint will still leave you in pretty good shape. Here are a few tips/ thoughts:

1. Don’t skip meals. Your body is a machine that must be fueled throughout the day. If you were driving a car and knew you were about to take it on a long haul, would you stop putting gas in it until that time? It needs to run to get you through all the minor trips along the way. So eat, throughout the day, just as you would any other day. Don’t show up to the family dinner starving because you wanted to “save” all your calories for the big meal. It doesn’t work like that.

2. Since you are going to eat throughout the day, the best things to eat are lean proteins. I think we all know that when we get to the party all we want to shove in our faces are all the sweet, delicious, scrumptious carbs. Which carbs? All of them. The alcoholic kind, the mashed kind, the baked kind. . . no one is walking to the dinner table wondering where that delicious side of lean chicken breast is, we want the dinner rolls. So focus on those wonderful protein choices earlier in the day. 

3. Drink plenty of water. In general many of us have a feeling of being hungry when in actuality it’s really us being dehydrated. It helps you feel full and helps with the hang over, so drink up.

4) It would be easy to say those cliche tips like, “keep your hands full so you won’t be able to grab food”, “stay an arm’s length away from munchies”, “eat before you get to the party”, “bring your own healthier food”. . . yada, yada, yada. But none of that is fun and the reason we work so hard to be healthy throughout the year is to allow room for fun. 

So have fun. . . but keep the fun to one meal a day. Or to one day of the week. Try to avoid the mindset of “screw it”. You work hard, don’t give up so easily. It’s only food. 

Now go forth and enjoy the holidays. Don't be "that" guy/girl…

Wednesday

TEAM WOD
We are starting at 1pm 
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Life is a Competition

That business you work for? Someone’s trying to kill it. That job you like? Someone would love to replace you with a computer program. That girlfriend/boyfriend/high-paying job/Nobel Prize that you want? So does somebody else.

We’re all in competition, although we prefer not to realise it. Most achievements are notable only in relation to those of others. You swam more miles, or can dance better, or got more Facebook likes than the average. Well done.

It’s a painful thing to believe, of course, which is why we’re constantly assuring one another the opposite. “Just do your best,” we hear. “You’re in competition only with yourself.” The funny thing about platitudes like that is they’re designed to make you try harder anyway. If competition really didn’t matter, we’d tell struggling children to just give up.

Fortunately, we don’t live in a world in which everyone has to kill one another to prosper. The blessing of modern civilization is there’s abundant opportunities and enough for us all to get by, even if we don’t compete directly.

But never fall for the collective delusion that there’s not a competition going on. People dress up to win partners. They interview to win jobs. If you deny that competition exists, you’re just losing. Everything in demand is on a competitive scale. And the best is available only to those who are willing to truly fight for it. 

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Tuesday

AMRAP in 5min of:

  6 Power Cleans

  6 Thrusters

    rest exactly 5min, then...

AMRAP in 5min of:

  6 Front Rack Rev. Lunges

  6 Push Press

RX= 95/65*

Monday

AMRAP in 16min. of:
   200m Run
   10 Pull-Ups
   20 KB Swings (53/35*)

Female Cops Sue Department for ‘Discrimination’ After Failing Physical Fitness Test

I'm at a loss for words... NO I'M NOT.

Police officers take risks and suffer inconveniences to protect the lives, defend civil liberties, secure the safety of fellow citizens, and they endure such risks and tolerate such inconveniences on behalf of strangers. Consequently, police work is one of the more noble and selfless occupations in society. Making a difference in the quality of life is an opportunity that policing provides, and few other professions can offer.  The community, loved ones and fellow officers depend on you. If you're not in shape, you are a liability.  First Responders are held to a higher standard and rightfully so.