Congrats to CFC Relentless Boot Camp for Capturing Second Place as Austin's Top Boot Camp

Yes, I no longer coach for Crossfit Central Relentless (CFC) Boot Camp, but I sure am proud to associate my name with this organization. I worked for CFC over the past year and this award truly validates my choice to work for one of the top, results-oriented, fitness companies out there.
Austin Fit Magazine (AFM) covered 14 different categories, collected thousands of votes and have more than 40 different companies, people and places to highlight on one list.
The rules: You Voted, We Published. It’s certainly the most comprehensive and precise survey Austin Fitness Magazine has ever undertaken. It’s not based on a subjective set of data or what we believe are the correlative variables, but personal choices made by real people.It's comprised of some 70,000 people locally.

One of the 14 categories was "Best Boot Camp". CFC Relentless took 2nd place! It works! Try it for yourself below.

Monica Brant-Peckham has agreed to be AFM's “guinea pig”. Every month AFM will feature a new trainer and a different set of workouts for our readers, in the process trying to Kick Mo’s Butt!

Here is the CFC Relentless Workout she endured:
Round 1
30 American swings
30 air squats
run 400 meters

Round 2
20 American swings
20 air squats
run 400 meters

Round 3
10 American swings
10 air squats
run 400 meters

Round 4
12 overhead sit-ups
12 seated chest passes with partner
50 overhead throws with partner

Round 5 (3X)
12 push-ups
6/6 one-arm thrusters
6 burpees
6 sit-ups with kettlebell
20 lunges with weight

Round 6 (8x)
Tabatta sprints (20 sec. run/10 sec. rest)

Round 7 (2x)
60 sec. planks alternating hands and elbows every 15 sec.

Round 8
20 bicycles
20 scissor kicks
20 flutter kicks
20 toe touches

BTW: Crossfit Central won for Best Training Studio in Austin! (indoor workouts)

Neanderthals may have feasted on meat and two veg diet

Another good study that helps us to know more about the Paleolithic nutrition.

ttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/27/neanderthals-cooked-diet-us-research

Excerpts:

Scientists have upgraded their opinion of Neanderthal cuisine after spotting traces of cooked food on the fossilized teeth of our long-extinct cousins.

The researchers found remnants of date palms, seeds and legumes – which include peas and beans – on the teeth of three Neanderthals uncovered in caves in Iraq and Belgium.

…

"In early human groups, women typically collected plants and turned them into food while men hunted. To us, and it is just a suggestion, this brings up the possibility that there was some sexual division of labour in the Neanderthals and that is something most people did not think existed."

Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?

Another great TED presentation. William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.

Click Here:

http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html

On another note:
The role of insulin and other related hormones may be key to understanding many of the modern diseases of civilization. It's fundamental to Kurt Harris' (www.paleonu.com)dietary recommendations. His basic hypotheses
are:

1. Various substances in the standard American diet (fructose, lectins, and
possibly omega-6 fatty acids) throw metabolisms out of whack (due to effects
on hormones).
2. Ketones are underrated as a source of energy for the human body, do not
have the same negative effects on hormone balances, and may in fact be the
body's preferred energy source.
3. Ketones are an important source of energy for the brain, and many brain
disorders/diseases (the link to epilepsy is already well established) may be
due to excessive reliance on glucose to the exclusion of ketones.
4. Cancer cells thrive on glucose but do not do well with ketones as an
energy source.