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Wednesday 111221

Herb — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:03:21 +0000

Workout
“Anti Herb”
3x
10-Burpees
20-Box Jumps
30-Pull-ups
40-Air Squats
200m Run/250m Row

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Friday 110708

Herb — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:32:05 +0000

Remember the Row/Wall Ball workout that was so much fun…try this.

Workout

1000m Row/20 Box Jumps/10-Burpees
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Tuesday 100921

Herb — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:09:42 +0000

Workout
“Anti Herb”
3x
10-Burpees
20-Box Jumps
30-Pull-ups
40-Air Squats
200m Run

Don’t forget FGB (Fight Gone Bad) is this Saturday! For this year’s version, we are heading to the IMPD at 901 N. Post Road. More info is available at TitanFit

Are Your Pants Lying to You? An Investigation

September 7, 2010 at 8:30AM by Abram Sauer

“I said, ‘I do not fear those pants / With nobody inside them.’
I said, and said, and said those words. / I said them. But I lied them.”
—Dr. Seuss

The devastating realization came in H&M. Specifically, in a pair of size 36 dress pants. I’d never bought pants at H&M before, and suddenly asked myself: how could a 36-inch waist suddenly be so damn tight?

I’ve never been slim — I played offensive line in high school — but I’m no cow either. (I’m happily a “Russell Crowe” body type.) So I immediately went across the street, bought a tailor’s measuring tape, and trudged from shop to shop, trying on various brands’ casual dress pants. It took just two hours to tear my self-esteem to smithereens and raise some serious questions about what I later learned is called “vanity sizing.”

Your pants have been deceiving you for years. And the lies are compounding:

The pants manufacturers are trying to flatter us. And this flattery works: Alfani’s 36-inch “Garrett” pant was 38.5 inches, just like the Calvin Klein “Dylan” pants — which I loved and purchased. A 39-inch pair from Haggar (a brand name that out-testosterones even “Garrett”) was incredibly comfortable. Dockers, meanwhile, teased “Leave yourself some wiggle room” with its “Individual Fit Waistline,” and they weren’t kidding: despite having a clear size listed, the 36-inchers were 39.5 inches. And part of the reason they were so comfy is that I felt good about myself, no matter whether I deserved it.

However, the temple for waisted male self-esteem is Old Navy, where I easily slid into a size 34 pair of the brand’s Dress Pant. Where no other 34s had been hospitable, Old Navy’s fit snugly. The final measurement? Five inches larger than the label. You can eat all the slow-churn ice cream and brats you want, and still consider yourself slender in these.

I enjoyed many of these pants, as I mentioned, but I’m still perturbed. This isn’t the subjective business of mediums, larges and extra-larges — nor is it the murky business of women’s sizes, what with its black-hole size zero. This is science, damnit. Numbers! Should inches be different than miles per hour? Do highway signs make us feel better by informing us that Chicago is but 45 miles away when it’s really 72? Multiplication tables don’t yield to make us feel better about badness at math; why should pants make us feel better about badness at health? Are we all so many emperors with no clothes?

The mind-screw of broken pride aside — like Humpty Dumpty, it cannot be put back together, now that you know the truth — down-waisting is genuine cause for concern. A recent report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that men with larger waists were twice at risk of death compared with their smaller-waist peers. Men whose waists measured 47 inches or larger were twice as likely to die. Yet, most men only know their waist size by their pants — so if those pants are up to five inches smaller than the reality, some men may be wrongly dismissing health dangers.

But vanity waist sizing is so entrenched, it couldn’t possibly be changed overnight, at least not without a government mandate. The only solution seems to be a gradual, year-by-year shaving of quarter-inch by quarter-inch until, in 2021, men’s pants finally correspond with the label numbers — conveniently just in time for the New World Order’s switch to mandatory full jumpsuits.

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Monday 100607

Herb — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:22:59 +0000

Your Choice WOD…

Strength WOD
10 Rep Max BSquat a

add 10 lbs to…http://titanfit.com/tuesday-100427/

MetConWOD
“Anti Herb”
For time:
3x
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Sunday 100221

Herb — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:13:07 +0000

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Workout

For time:
“KELLY”

5x
400m Run
30 – 24 inch Box Jump
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Thursday 091029

Ryan Simmons — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:33:00 +0000

I think KTF hates me…!

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Thursday 090903

Ryan Simmons — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:24:00 +0000

Will DL’ing…

Workout
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Wednesday 090617

Ryan Simmons — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:31:00 +0000

Workout
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A few years ago a family member told me the worse thing she ever did was moving OUT of a two story house. The following seems to agree…

http://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/stairs-as-fitness-tool/
June 15, 2009, 2:13 pm

Stairs as Fitness Tool?
By Harvey B. Simon, M.D.

Elizabeth K. Bristow One of the best-kept secrets in preventive medicine is the staircase.

Q.
New York Times reader David Frank of Clayton, Mo., asks the Consults blog:

While everyone knows there is benefit in walking up the stairs rather than using the elevator, is there a worthwhile health benefit from walking down stairs?

A.
Dr. Harvey Simon, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, responds:

You’re right about climbing stairs; in fact, walking up stairs is one of the best-kept secrets in preventive medicine.

Coaches, cardiologists and housewives have long been in on the secret. Many football coaches “ask” their players to charge up flight after flight of stadium steps to get in shape, and other competitive athletes put gymnasium stairwells to similar use. In the days before stress testing held sway, doctors would often walk up stairs with their patients to check out cardiopulmonary function. Even today, cardiologists tell heart patients they are fit enough to have sex if they can walk up two or three flights comfortably, and surgeons may clear patients for lung operations if they can manage five or six flights. As for housewives, taking care of a two- or three-story home is one reason American women outlive their husbands by an average of more than five years.

What’s so special about climbing stairs? Researchers in Canada answered the question by monitoring 17 healthy male volunteers with an average age of 64 while they walked on the level, lifted weights or climbed stairs. Stair climbing was the most demanding. It was twice as taxing as brisk walking on the level and 50 percent harder than walking up a steep incline or lifting weights. And peak exertion was attained much faster climbing stairs than walking, which is why nearly everyone huffs and puffs going upstairs, at least until their “second wind” kicks in after a few flights.

Because stairs are so taxing, only the very young at heart should attempt to charge up long flights. But at a slow, steady pace, stairs can be a health plus for the rest of us. Begin modestly with a flight or two, and then add more as you improve. Take the stairs whenever you can; if you have a long way to go, walk part way, and then switch to an elevator. Use the railing for balance and security, and don’t try the stairs after a heavy meal or if you feel unwell.

Even at a slow pace, you’ll burn calories two to three times faster climbing stairs than walking briskly on the level. The Harvard Alumni Study found that men who average at least eight flights a day enjoy a 33 percent lower mortality rate than men who are sedentary — and that’s even better than the 22 percent lower death rate men earned by walking 1.3 miles a day.

Since every little bit of exercise is a step forward on the long road to health, walking down stairs is also a plus. But while gravity makes walking up tough, it makes walking down easy on the heart.

Since you’ll burn less than a third as many calories going down a flight as going up, don’t count on walking down to build fitness or shed fat. Still, you use different muscles going down, and they contract differently at that, so going down does make a contribution to your legs. It may also improve balance, but since many older people are a bit challenged in that department, it’s wise to use the railing, or at least be railing-ready.

Want to stay well? Step right up — and, perhaps, down.

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Tuesday 081111

Ryan Simmons — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:26:00 +0000

Workout
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Ryan Simmons — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:12:00 +0000

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Hey we had some visitors yesterday. We had 3 Firemen come in from Virgina. They are members of CF Fairfax http://crossfitfairfax.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 , they did the HQ WOD, “Kelly” and set a new TitanFit record for time.

Robert and Micheal doing box jumps

Michael, Robert and Brian doing WallBall

Happy it’s all done!
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