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Author: Cody Volk

Now I Know My A, B, CAAs

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Amino acids are organic compounds mostly composed of nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. They are found in protein-rich foods like meat and seafood and perform many important roles in the body. There are 20 amino acids that the body needs to function, and nine of these are labeled essential amino…
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2022 07 31

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Workout Frequency: How Many Days?

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Seriously. How many days a week should we be exercising? CrossFit is so much fun - even if our faces don't show it right before the WOD. It's easy to show up everyday of the week to see your favorite coach and your friends. However, there's got to be a…
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2022 07 24

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Creatine: Hail to the King

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Often called the king of supplements, creatine is one of the most widely used supplements in the athletic world. To some people the name conjures up images of overly pumped bodybuilders in a roid-rage, or regular people swelling up to hulk-like levels. Let's go beyond the myths and dive in…
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2022 07 17

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Fat: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Beginning in the 1940's, scientific studies saw a correlation between high-fat diets and high cholesterol. While correlation doesn't always equal causation, low-fat diets were promoted for patients at high risk for heart disease. This diet began to catch on among all Americans in the 1960's, and by the 1980's the…
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2022 07 10

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Murph: The Workout to Remember

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When I was new to CrossFit, the regular workouts were more than enough to destroy me. While huffing and puffing through whatever the WOD was, people at the gym liked to say "if you think this is bad, you should try..." and then promoted all these WOD's with names. Not…
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2022 07 03

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VO2 to the Max!

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Sure, you can bench press the most weight, but have you thought about how much oxygen your body can use during exercise? As we breath in oxygen, our lungs absorb it and turn it into energy called adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which powers our cells and helps us release carbon dioxide.…
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2022 06 28

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The Great Olive Oil Caper

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Them: Olive oil is extremely healthy for you. Also them: Olive oil is extremely unhealthy for you. The answer? Both. Photo by Roberta Sorge on Unsplash That golden-emerald glass bottle on our kitchen counter is so easy to pour into a pan for cooking, on our veggies for eating, on our meat for…
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2022 04 25

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Body Composition: Beyond the Scale

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Some of us experience a bit of anxiety before stepping on the scale. Maybe it's been a while. Maybe you haven't been so good this weekend...and last weekend...and last week. However, the numbers that appear beneath your feet may not be deserving of the anxiety. Those numbers aren't giving the…
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2022 04 19

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The Nose Knows and It Always Knew

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You just picked up the barbell to knock out 15 hang cleans at a light weight - no biggie. Now you have 20 jumping lunges into 15 cals on the bike. After 4 jumps, you realize that you're almost out of gas. What gives? You did 10 of these jumping…
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2022 03 28

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Fats or Carbs: Which Is Better Fuel?

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The body's ability to switch between burning fat or carbohydrates for fuel is known as metabolic flexibility. Unfortunately, many of us eating the Standard American Diet, or SAD for short, are not prepared to alternate between these fuel sources. Ingesting too many processed foods and carbohydrates causes our bodies to…
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2022 03 21

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