The Good News Is...

Bonnie, and Monica...

Nic...

If you aren't over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

The good news is you were made to be great. To function incredibly well. To live a life of splendor. Engaged. Amazed. And worthy. The only requirement to achieve all these blessings, is choice.

When you get up in the morning....well step back. Do you get up? Or do you continue to lie there? You can walk. You can run. Lift. Push. Pull. Create. Strive. Or...not. It is all contained in the beauty which you were created to be, and see yourself as, or in the shell you are letting yourself become, because you won't make the simple choice of life.

By now you may have heard of Epigenetics. Epigenetics is essentially how our inherited genes act when placed in certain environments, or environmental cues.

Without the biology lesson, of which I may fail miserably. Genotyping is the genes we are born with. Phenotyping is what they express because of where we are, or what are actions are. How your born, and what you create yourself to be.

We were born with 22,000 genes. Cancerous genes, alcoholism genes, big muscle genes. Whatever you wanna call it. However, if you "choose" to perform actions to stimulate the not so attractive genes, you will end up with a not so attractive result. Reverse that, and the same applies. Do the good stuff, create yourself to be great, and follow your destiny.

Since Barbells For Boobs is on the way lets take a look at breast cancer. Women who are most likely affected by this may very well be born with (genotyped) a mutation on the BRCA 1, or BRCA 2 gene. However, not all women who have the mutation develop the cancer. Studies show that even though they are more likely too at birth, it just doesn't happen because the mutated gene was never expressed (phenotyped). Very, very good news.

Repectively we control at least 80%, all the way up to 97% of our gene expression. Essientially, we are either our biggest fan, or worst enemy. 

But how you say? How can I be phenotyped as the all amazing wonderment I was created to be? What must I do to leave those bad genes we all carry, lie dormant never to be realized? The answer is to utilize the biggest, and second biggest drugs we have available...food, and exercise. 

Genes are "regulated" or turned on or off, by regulatory genes which are almost entirel controlled by nutrients. Nutrients are to feed, energize and repair every cell in the human body. Feeding the machine protein, fat, antioxidants, and everything wrapped up therein will ensure we live prosperous through meat, nuts, seeds, green veggies. Feeding the machine grains, legumes, sugar and alcohol will ensure whatever bad genes we have lying around to rise to the top and become activated. Auto-immuninty kicks in, and we die fast, faster, and light-speed. Alcholics have to drink to express the gene. Gluten intolerant individuals need only eat gluten to get ill. Lactose intolerant folks need only drink milk. Its really just that simple. 

Add CrossFit to the equation and you are truly a different human all around. If you test tubed the genes on a CFer, and non-CFer, you would see enough legitimate differences to consider two different styles of human. The two categories could be labeled. Living. Or waiting.

The good news is by simply CrossFitting a few times per week, and ingesting the correct drugs listed above, and you have officially chosen your path of living. As opposed to waiting. Waiting for that one expressed gene to show up, and give you the fight of your life. That usually, you lose.

Strength:

Rest

For Time, and weight moved.

30-Burpees

30-Swings

3 Rounds

then

-Work up to one heavy snatch in 3 minutes.

then 

800m-Run

*You must take the full three minutes. No more, no less.

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Comments

[holly]

85 snatch
15:55

[Joey Franchise]

135 snatch
15:22

[runmelrun]

75 snatch
16:07+

[MJ]

135 snatch
24:20

[ASH]

.com rest day so I did this one...
14:57
95# snatch

[jb]

Good to see u on the board ash

[Dave]

Power snatch @ 115#
21:13m

[Dana]

55# power snatch
17:26

[Jen]

Power snatch 85#
15:55 (or around there)