CrossFit Ocean City: WHEN BRIGHTER DAYS ARRIVE

What are you doing on a daily basis to make things better for yourself and your family? Are you working harder than you did a few years ago? Are you earning more or less than before? Have debts piled up? Do you have strained relationships with friends, family, or your spouse that you didn't have before?

What about your health and fitness? Have you paid much attention to what you eat and how you train? Are you even training consistently at all these days? If not, do you attribute this lack of effort to all of the problems noted above?

There's a general feeling of unease and trepidation throughout America these days. Certainly the economic conditions tend to depress a lot of small business owners and others working hard to make a living. Our political leadership (both sides of the aisle) can't seem to garner consensus and solve our nation's pressing economic, social, and diplomatic issues. And the international scene appears bleak with the impending Iranian nuclear situation, the never-ending Israeli-Palestinean problem, rising military might of China, trouble in North Korea, ongoing terrorism throughout the world, and the military problems plaguing our nation as we continue to wage what appears to be a no-win situation in Afghanistan.?

To top things off, the moral standards of some of our nation's leaders leaves a lot to be desired. Fraud, lack of fidelity, cheating, lying, and the basic sense of entitlement and living above the law certainly don't provide the rest of us with the type of leadership we need to get our butts in gear. Don't get me wrong, there are certainly those who continue to live honorably and do the right thing. It's just apparent that those leaders just happen to be the hard working owners of small businesses, athletes training for pure fitness events (like the CrossFit Games), hard working law enforcement, and mid-level military officers and senior staff NCOs, to name just a few.

What we're left with is not just an impending fiscal cliff, but impending moral, ethical, and social cliffs (I'll leave those for a different day). There's also a serious health and fitness cliff looming on the horizon. I'm not talking about Obamacare --officially the Affordable Health Care for America Act -- it's your personal health and fitness cliff that's looming. Let me explain.

To begin with, understand that there is both a fitness cliff and a health cliff. Take a look at your fitness training plan. Are you a cardio bunny bouncing around in a group fitness class led by a semi-anorexic instructor fresh from the pages of Shape magazine? Are you a gym rat hitting the Cybex machines, universals, and Smith machines (Monday - back and bis; Wednesday - chest and shoulders; Friday - legs; with cardio on the treadmill the other days) with a copy or two of Muscle and Fitness in your gym bag along with some kind of power-stacker muscle-builder protein powder? Are you the closet home fitness video person (P90X, Insanity, Jane Fonda)? Perhaps you just like to run a lot, or you're trying some contrived fitness program that pretends to be a strength and conditioning program -- but really is just entertainment and sweat. If you're a CrossFitter, congratulations, you've graduated to the next level of fitness and have (hopefully) realized the true benefits of multi-modality, strength and conditioning training under the supervision of a trained professional coach who will push you to become better than you are. Whatever it is that you do, at least you're not sitting on a couch someplace. ?With continued training, your fitness cliff is at least someplace further down the road than the guy or gal sitting behind a desk all day and never setting foot inside a gym.

Health, while some consider synonymous with fitness, is a completely different animal. Cancer and serious illness and disease aside, health is directly linked with what you eat. That nasty four-letter word "diet" has so many definitions that it would take several more long posts like this to explain all of them. Needless to say, the long and short of it is that excess, refined carbohydrates (sugar, bread, beer, white rice, sweats) directly cause hyperinsulinemia, which in turn leads directly to obesity, heart disease, and other maladies like Diabetes Type II. When will America all wake up and understand that dietary fat does not make one fat? Only refined carbohydrates cause obesity. This happens through a process resulting from spiked insulin in the blood, sentivity in the fat cells, and storage of triglycerides in the fat cells making them larger. (Read "Why We Get Fat" or "Good Calories, Bad Calories" to understand this concept fully and to disavow any notion that high carb, low fat diets are healthy in any way.) But I've digressed. Eat right -- a low carb diet devoid of refined carbs -- or go off the health cliff. Period.

If you're not training and you're not eating properly, then you need to start. Don't wait until brighter days arrive. Brighter days will only arrive if you work at it and only if you only commit to taking care of yourself. Otherwise, the health and fitness cliffs loom large for you in a way that will make the fiscal cliff look like an insignificant blip on the radar. Falling off the fiscal cliff isn't the end of the world, but going off the health and fitness cliffs certainly are -- at least for you personally.

If you need help taking that first step towards brighter days and away from the cliff, we'll help get you there. All you have to do is make the commitment to start.?

Source: http://www.crossfitocmd.com/crossfit_ocmd/2012/11/when-brighter-days-arrive.html

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