Flexion and Extension

This one was meant to be a scorcher, it did the job pretty well.  Breaks in a workout allow you to hit the next set of movements harder, think sprint intervals.  I intentionally didn’t write an rx weight, I thought the kettlebell front squats would be pretty varied.  It was awesome to see some of you push yourselves with the weight (Tom is an animal).  Be sure and ice/massage your legs, tomorrow is the third squat day in a row and I don’t want anyone incapacitated on Friday.  Just a couple of days from the big event, who’s coming out to cheer our competitors on?

I’ve gotten some questions recently about supplements and I wanted to get that information out here.  I hope you all know about and take your fish oil, but are you getting your daily dose of vitamin d?  Someone asked me why would you supplement vitamin d in your diet and I didn’t have a very clear and concise answer.  The short answer would be that in Washington we don’t get any of it from the sun, only about two months out of the year we get enough sunlight that our bodies can produce it on it’s own.  Almost every cell in our body has vitamin d receptors so it is important in nearly all bodily functions.  The list of benefits is too long to list here, but if you want to read more about it I found an article that does a pretty good job of explaining most of it.  It’s a little lengthy though.

http://www.eatmoveimprove.com/2009/10/a-closer-look-at-vitamin-d/