The following link is to an AP story, which I found on Yahoo today. New research shows exercise during the teen years — starting as young as age 12 — can help protect girls from breast cancer when they’re grown.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_he_me/breast_cancer
An excerpt from the article reads:
Researchers tracked nearly 65,000 nurses ages 24 to 42 who enrolled in a major health study. They answered detailed questionnaires about their physical activity dating back to age 12. Within six years of enrolling, 550 were diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause. A quarter of all breast cancer is diagnosed at these younger ages, when it’s typically more aggressive.
Women who were physically active as teens and young adults were 23 percent less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than women who grew up sedentary, researchers report Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Workout
CrossFit Total (CFT)
1RM for:
Squat
Press
Dead lift
Can you believe it has been 6 weeks already?
Compare to:
TITANFIT: Wednesday 080402
SB + OHS – 155 lb
SNBal+OHS – 185. missed 195. need to do a lot more work to get my SN over 200
heavy(ier) fran
115lb thrusters
20lb weighted pullups
11:33
just over twice as slow as my regular fran time. the heavier thrusters absolutely killed my lungs. and legs. and shoulders.
the weight belt kept slipping off my hips during weighted pullups too. herb, you need to get a weight vest!