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Sleep: An Undervalued Ergogenic Aid

In February 2011, Dallas wrote an article for Performance Menu, the “journal of nutrition and athletic excellence” published each month by Greg Everett of Catalyst Athletics.  The article focused on the impact of sleep (or lack thereof) on your health and athletic performance. Today, thanks to the generosity of Catalyst Athletics, today we are offering [...]

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The Question

“We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.” CrossFit Albuquerque. The Question comes in many forms. It is always different, yet universally the same. [...]

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Context Matters: Additional Factors

Definition aside, in simple terms, “context” means the general story of your life, past and present – everything that makes up your big-picture health and fitness. A good place to start evaluating your own context [...]

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The Whole9 Health Equation

We’re calling this graphical representation of an individual’s overall health “The Whole9 Health Equation” (at least until we have a stroke of genius and come up with something clever-er). Yes, it is simplified – Dallas doesn’t like complex math equations.[...]

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Yoga for the Type-A

In yoga, there are two kinds of positions. The first requires strength to hold the pose. The second requires you to soften and yield. I suck at softening. [...]

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The 400,000 Hour Body

We get a lot of questions about products, services and protocols that promise miraculous results – improved body composition, fitness, energy or health – with minimal effort. This slant is not new – the lure of a shortcut [...]

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Prepare for Pavel (and your RKC certification)

We’ve recently written about our experience at the Russian Kettlebell Challenge (RKC) instructor certification. Several people have asked about how we prepared for the weekend, so here is our best advice for surviving – and succeeding with – your RKC. [...]

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The RKC in Review

We (Dallas and Melissa) completed the RKC (Russian Kettlebell Challenge) certification in St. Paul, MN from April 29th – May 1st. This post is our review of the RKC [...]

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174,203 Things You Can Do Instead of Watching TV

This is the first post in our Kill Your TV series, designed to help you navigate your television-less existence for the next 30 days. (You didn’t think we’d spring it on you and then leave you hanging, did you?) [...]

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Ice, Ice Baby

For those of you who follow us on Facebook or Twitter, you may have noticed our recent love affair with ice. Specifically, we’re Tweeting about the thrice-weekly ice baths we’ve been taking following our training sessions at Gym Jones. [...]

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