Champions Club Scaling Notes

RANT
Nothing to rant about

WORKOUT THEMES
An honorary workout. Long, slow distance kind of thing, tough on the body but even more on the mind. High volume, scaling an obstacle, squatting with unilateral loading, odd object

					SHORT		MEDIUM		LONG

LIGHT																										x

MEDIUM

HEAVY

FIRST DAY WITH CROSSFIT SCALE
AMRAP in 20 minutes of:
Run 400 meters
20 lunges
10 box jumps (step-down)

NOT FIRST DAY WITH CROSSFIT BUT NOT WANTING TO DIE SCALE
AMRAP in 45 minutes of:
100 meter farmers walk
300 meter run
50 step-ups

I DON'T WANT TO LOSE COUNT SCALE
5 rounds of 4 minutes of step-ups, count the number of times you stop/lose rhythm, not the actual step-ups

MY STUFF
53:01, held on to two 20# dumbbells. My time was ironic considering on our group's mile effort the other day I was getting on our people for being a few seconds over a particular minute mark. Definitely had chances to rest less. 600-800 in particular was rough. I did 50 unbroken for all sets, and moved to different sides of the box; after 4 sets I'd move the box to a different spot.

GENERAL FEAR LEVEL: 7

Sounds an awful lot like Level Method. A solid system with thousands of data points that keeps people safe and working out according to their abilities. Our coaches and members love it!

Stephane killing it! Rubio is a stud! Ok, let's get this podcast going! Great content!
CrossFit Podcast "Coach to Coach". Exploring the history of training, progressions coaches use, how they apply the methodology we all know and love in their community, what they do with their members and more. Seems to bring value to affiliates everywhere and also coaches everywhere who are curious and eager to learn. When you don't have formal guests from outside or inside the community then get some L1 staff on and talk through coaching as a lifestyle/ profession or answer questions from the community. The best and most impactful memories I have are conversations with other "Redshirts" at Saturday night dinner. If we can professionally create a conversation like that with our pro's, I think others will love to tune in! 

I am glad to see that Crossfit hasn't fallen for the nonsense Vegan agenda that is being pushed by big ag and the other climate activist psychos out there. Every study, not conducted by a Vegan ideologist, has repeatedly found that meat does not cause negative health effects, nor does it even correlate with negative health effects, when controlling for lifestyle. 

Now there is this massive push, by huge companies that stand to profit tremendously off of selling their garbage fake meats, that animals cause climate change. If that were true then the world would've been destroyed long ago as there were many, many more ruminants on this planet at one point hundreds of thousands of years ago than now, not to mention much larger versions.

The fact is, grasslands are integral to this planet and most of the land that isn't being used in the US and the rest of the world is land we cannot farm on. Letting some cows graze it will not only improve people's health since meat is the most nutrient dense food there is, it would also provide even more food for the world and improve local habitats as healthy habitats are supposed to have ruminants incorporated alongside all of the insects, birds, fish and other mammals.

Funny enough I printed the levels chart few weeks ago and try to check the marks. Also I follow this guy on Instagram and didn‘t know it‘s his gym I have the chart from. Also funny that I‘m a raging bull in some and a mere steer in other things…

A great system, too, is The Level Method...we've been using it at our gym since early 2019, to Assess, Address, and Progress our team's fitness and health.
https://www.levelmethod.com/

Dear Crossfit, it is embarrassing that you would publish such misleading information.  The statement that "growing more crops" for human consumption "Could" actually cause negative carbon sequestration is just wrong.  This man is no expert.  Look Crossfit community, if you want to eat meat fine.  It's not good for the environment that is fact.  But you can go ahead and do it.  But what you can't to is promote misinformation in order to try to make you feel better about yourself and the poor environmental choices that you are making.  Do better CROSSFIT, you need to do better.

This Ballerstedt interview is laughable in how unsophisticated this so-called "expert" appears to be in understanding sustainability. For example, his argument that converting grass lands into crops could have the harmful effect of reducing gas-emmission sequestration effected by grasslands is just so misleading: The issue IS NOT about comparing grasslands to crop lands. The REAL issue in that particular comparison should be about deforestation. Forests sequester WAY MORE carbon emissions than grasslands and cropland combined. How is grassland for animals produced? By cutting down forests! Arguing that "grasslands" are important to the health of the planet, relative to cropland, is just missing the whole point. Huge swaths of the rainforest, aka the lungs of this planet, are being cut down year after year to expand cattle production and its a huge problem that apparently Peter Ballerstedt has no awareness about? Give me a break. How is this joker even getting platformed by crossfit? 

The arguments for going plant based isn't about about environmental issues it is about the animals. Environmentalists should be working towards healthy lifestyles to prevent diabetes and chronic disease. Prephaps some traditions involving meat and dairy should align to these.

This is a sham article and clearly biased.  Less animal agriculture leads to more crops being grown.  Come again.  Has he counted the number of animals slaughtered each year??? My 5 year old knows better than to make that statement.  What a clown.  Plant based cruelty free has no equal 

I am grateful that CrossFit opened up a discussion on a very controversial topic and did not shy away from it. It is better for all of us.

So basically, your "expert", has a PhD in philosophy... so basically ZERO formation in science nor medicine. He is a forage seller for ruminant animal agriculture.. bitch please !!!!  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Ballerstedt 

Here is my opinion, There is an alternative in plant kingdom for almost every benefit meat provides, then why do people prefer meat? Being a past meat eater, I can tell for most of the meat eaters, taste buds come first and then the health benefits. Eating or not eating meat is supposed to be a moral choice rather than which one is best for health. For example consider this scenario carefully and think deeply about the answer you are going to give. 

You are driving a car on a two lane road, one lane has live chickens and other lane has live plants, you have to pick one lane or else you are gonna die, which one do you take? Most of the humans would prefer the option without blood. Why??? Your answer to this question is going to be crucial to determine whether to eat or not eat meat because it is going to tell who we are at the core of our beings. We always need to consider making a conscious choice when we put something in our mouth. If we can live very well off smaller life, why hurt bigger life with nervous systems? Whatever you say PAIN is inevitable when life is taken away, its all about the intensity and using our freedom of choice to prefer lesser pain. That is just my take on it and I will leave the choice to your conscience. Peace. Love.

"I sense that some animal sources are essential for development and flourishing, I think that evidence would support that..." - No, it wouldn't.
Where do you find these "experts"? 

To balance the opinion please have a look at what a whole panel of scientists came up with: EAT Lancet 2019 Report - a diet for human health and environmental sustainability. It sounds pretty close to the CrossFit recommendation. There is no need to be vegan or a carnivore - but there is a need to reduce animal derived foods to a human and planetary measure. https://eatforum.org/content/uploads/2019/07/EAT-Lancet_Commission_Summary_Report.pdf Enjoy! Sascha

Just another opinion from another so called expert, this one states we need meat for a couple of health reasons, don't agree with his statements but there we go, another opininion. Just follow what you feel is right and I don't need animal based food, I feel far more healthier as a vegan... 

Great time at the L1 in Wichita, KS. Great trainers and great people!