Labrats, hello! Today in the MindLab, let us ponder the prolific pandora of postured anxiety-reducing practice via yoga. We all experience stress and anxiety: cell phone notifications, emails, work to-dos, home to-dos, “honey-dos,” “honey-don’t-evers,” not enough time, not enough energy, not enough motivation, self-defeating talk, impossible self
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This is an article I have been wanting to write for a long time. Over my years of doing CrossFit I have tried various strength and metabolic conditioning programs. Some have greatly influenced how I do my own programming. Many of the authors of these
Read more →Hello MindLab Rats! Today let’s talk about stress, and a cool little technique that can be employed to keep those uncomfortable feelings of anxiety or unease at bay. This is known in some circles as “the spiral technique” or the “energy ball technique,” and it
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A great book I have recently read is 12 Rules Of Life by Jordan Peterson, which offers some insightful views on life. In this book, Dr. Peterson applies the rules of the past and applies them to present day. Much of what is talked
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DCL, hello! This is another introduction message, this time for the part of us seldom improved upon… our psyche! We will be mixing these MindLab updates into our weekly repertoire for the same goal as always: to help us all be as healthy and fit as possible!
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It’s hard to find a training program that doesn’t want to increase your max squat, deadlift, or bench press. These programs are everywhere. Some are very calculated and excellent and others are thrown together and lead you on a long road to failure. One thing that is
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This is going to be a little different as it pertains to a particular workout that DCL performed on September 18, 2018. This was a great workout and an experiment for me as a programmer/coach. As previously stated in my other post on the three
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Before CrossFit was even a thing, Greg Glassman was writing blog articles describing his theories on fitness. In his original article titled What is Fitness, Glassman describes four fitness models. They are: The 10 General Fitness Skills The Hopper The Sickness, Wellness, Fitness Continuum The Metabolic
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BLUF: Still cut the sugar, but enjoy your autumn! Autumn usually brings to mind familiar things, like falling leaves, cooler weather, PSLs, and Rob and I finally wearing shirts (jk). For others, it’s a time to splurge on candy and… more PSLs. We all want
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Hey DCL. Hope everyone’s had a fantastically sugar-free couple of weeks since we last touched base! Today’s nutrinformation bit revolves around a topic some (me) are pretty good at sucking at, and that’s the conundrum of how much to eat versus what to eat. With “intermittent fasting” and “counting
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