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Is My Thyroid too Slow? Hypothyroidism 101

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Is My Thyroid too Slow? Hypothyroidism 101-CFSB Wellness Wednesday

In this video we give a basic overview of hypothyroidism, which is where your thyroid is functioning too slowly. We also answer the following questions:

What is your thyroid and what does it do?

What is hypothyroidism?

What are the symptoms of hypothyroidism?

What is the main cause of hypothyroidism?

What is the problem with the standard of care for hypothyroidism?

Running short on time? Check out the 90-second preview here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWT0kUGDThI

16.2 Recap and Scoring

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[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]16.1 is in the books everyone! and the scoring is finished. A few of you forgot to put your scores in, no worries, even though you won’t be able to get placed for scoring in the open, you are still in the running for the intramural open!

[/text_output][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/4″][text_output]Top Female Scores Rx’d

Keega Rambadt

Amy Vandyck

Maura Scudder[/text_output][/vc_column][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/4″][text_output]Top Male Scores Rx’d

Brandon

Chad

Mitch[/text_output][/vc_column][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/4″][text_output]Top Female Scores Scaled

Brianna Stines

Nikki Davis

Courtney Korabek[/text_output][/vc_column][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/4″][text_output]Top Male Scores Scaled

Andrew Ivans

Timur Kupaev

Brian North[/text_output][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Click here for spreadsheet of team standings

If you feel as though anything in the scoring is in error – click here to contact me

[/text_output][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/4″][promo image=”14106″ alt=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]1st place – MaCHETe[/promo][/vc_column][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/4″][promo image=”14107″ alt=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]2nd Place – CrossFit Cobra Kai[/promo][/vc_column][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/4″][promo image=”14108″ alt=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]3rd Place – The Bri’s Knees[/promo][/vc_column][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/4″][promo image=”14109″ alt=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]4th Place – Betsy’s Babes[/promo][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/2″][text_output]SPIRIT AWARD: Chet’s team won the spirit award this week, nice job on the +5 guys!

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Managing Hand Tears after 16.2

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So you just finished 16.2 for the 2nd time, and your hands are ripped up to bits. Here are a few Breaking Muscle tips so you are good to go for the next week.

Clean it

The first thing to do when your hand rips is clean it out well. It is going to be painful, but wash it out with warm water and soap. Depending on the environment, you may also want to rinse it with Iodine. Don’t be a little baby about it. Clean it soon after, don’t drive home and wait until the morning.

Trim Excess Skin

If the skin is torn in a way it is going to catch and rip further, use sterilized scissors and trim the excess skin away. If the tear is small, more like a burst blister, than leave the skin to protect the healthy flesh underneath. I have some scissors in the office where we can trim it up a bit.

Bandage and Keep Moist

The key to healing quickly and to minimizing pain is to keep the wound site moist. Use a product with Vitamin E, if possible; otherwise anything from Vaseline to Bag Balm will do the trick. Keeping the rip moist will prevent it from drying and tearing further. If you have cracked open a dried wound, you know it is very painful and causes healing to take much longer. You’ll develop a deeper cut thats going to be pretty hard to heal up.

Bag It Overnight

One trick many gymnasts use, is to wear gloves or plastic bags over my hands overnight with some lotion on your hands. It keeps your hands moisturized and also helps prevent you from spreading lotion all over your bedding. Just don’t put the bags on too tight, you don’t want black hands in the morning.

Folk Remedies

If you look around the Internet you will find a large variety of folk remedies for ripped hands. The sport of gymnastics has been dealing with this problem for many decades. Two of the most common suggestions are tea bags and Preparation H. It is possible the tannic acids in tea help the healing process, but using them is a bit messy. Preparation H is more useful. It can help with swelling and more importantly has a mild anesthetic quality that may provide temporary relief.

Synthetic Skin

You have ripped your hand, but you want to keep training. What can you do? Three different options are quick and easy.

The first option is to use liquid New Skin to create a tough, synthetic layer over your rip. Be aware, New Skin sticks to healthy skin, too, and if it starts to peal off you do not want to pull on it.

The second option is to use a synthetic skin patch. There are a number of different brands and they work with varying success.

Lastly, you can always use the same leather grips you wore when you were trying to prevent your rips. Keep your rips moisturized and bandaged and wear the leather grips over the bandage.

But, remember the best way to deal with rips is to prevent them. Take good, daily care of your hand and keep sanding down your calluses.

CrossFit Wods 3.7.16 – 3.13.16 **Week 5 of 9**

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[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][accordion][accordion_item title=”CFSB Stuff” parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]CFSB Stuff

CFSB Nutrition – Whats in my fridge?

Second FNL Wrap Up, Prize Winner, Spirit Award, Scoring, another thank you.

Friday Night Lights Pictures – Click here to check out the pictures from last FNL – Also, give Gopi some love for taking the pictures at BlueKrishna Photography by clicking here[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Monday 3.7.16″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Monday 3.7.16

A.

15 minutes to find a heavy 1 1/4 Back Squat

B.

For Time – Teams of 3-5 Conga Line Format

40/30 Calorie Row (Male 40, Female 30)

30 American Kettlebell Swings 55/35

20 Bench Press 135/85

20 Burpees

Score is time.


 

Notes:

Squats: Pull your ego back on the squats, keep the 1 1/4 squats clean and fast. Ideally these are full depth, then up to parallel, then back to full depth. If you have issues with full depth, perform them parallel, up to power position, parallel, up.

Wod: Typical conga line format, you can’t step forward to perform reps until the person ahead of you is finished. With the Bench Press, I’d like for there to be a spotter, so if you finished, or are last in line, spot your team mates, and use an intelligent weight for the bench. 75-85% is a challenging range of your max to look at for this, although you may want to stick on the lower end if you are more prone to fatigue.[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Tuesday 3.8.16″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Tuesday 3.8.16

A.

Snatch Warm Up and Skill Work – Coaches Choice

B.

Every minute on the minute for 18 minutes

Minute 1 – Snatch x 2

*You may power snatch these, or full snatch them if flexibility allows

Minute 2  – Max Unbroken Strict Pull Ups

Minute 3 – 6 Box Jumps 30/24

Two scores – heaviest snatch weight, and total number of pull ups.


Notes:

Snatch can be full or power, whatever you feel you need work on the most. You can also build on these OR start heavy and stay heavy, lets take the heaviest weight lifted for the score.

Bands can be used in the pull ups

Don’t be a dumbass for the box jumps[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Wednesday 3.9.16″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Wednesday 3.9.16

A.

Beat the team series #11 from Again Faster:

For time:

200 Double Unders

9000#/7000# of Deadlifts

75 Barbell Thrusters (45#)

Score is time


 

Deadlifts: Weight on deadlift bar will determine # of reps. If weight isn’t an even multiple of the 9000#/7000#, athlete will round up. For example, if you choose to complete the 9000# with 185# (9000/185=48.6), you’ll complete 49 reps. Once workout begins, deadlift weight must remain the same. If you need to scale this workout, your weight selection can be 7000 male /5000 female, 100 double unders

Reps can be partitioned as the athlete wishes, but you only get one bar.

Score is time…but try to scale so that you finish within 20 minutes.[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Thursday 3.10.16″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Thursday 3.10.16

A.

15 Minutes to establish a Snatch Push Press x 3

B.

20 Minute amrap

Teams of 2 – one person working at a time

30 Kettlebell Snatches 55/35

30 Burpees over Partner

30 Chest to Bar Pull Ups


Note: Not too good a descending the bar to your back? stay light and work the position. Horrible flexibility? today you’ll perform a Push Press x 3 instead.

Wod: I’ll allow any modification for the pull ups, jumping, ring row, banded. This is coaches choice.

[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Friday 3.11.16″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Friday 3.11.16

A.

Clean / Hang Power Clean Skill Work – Coaches Choice

B.

Every minute on the minute for 18 minutes

Minute 1 – Hang Power Clean x 3

Minute 2  – 10 Wall Balls 30/20

Minute 3 – 1-2 Rope Climbs


 

Notes:

Hang Power Clean, you can build, or you can start heavy and stay heavy. We will track heaviest load on the board afterwards.

Rope Climbs: either you have them or you don’t today, prep your legs and if you didn’t wear protection or can’t perform rope climbs perform 3-5 rope lowers.[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Saturday 3.12.16″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Saturday 3.12.16

A.

For Time

22.16.10

10 Yard Shuttles

Ring Dips

Rest 5 minutes then perform…

500m Row

50 Double Unders

Score is total time


[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Sunday 3.13.16″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]3.13.16

A.

15 minutes to work to a heavy thruster single

B.

Max Thrusters @ 115/85 in 8 minutes

at the 0, 2, 4, 6 minute marks, you must stop and perform 20 box jumps 24/20

Score is number of thrusters


 

Notes:

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Second FNL Wrap Up, Prize Winner, Spirit Award, Scoring, another thank you.

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Thank you again everyone, all of our volunteers that helped judge through the night, it couldn’t run smoothly without you!

Okay, here we are!

PRIZE: Maura! you won, shoot me an email to claim your $20 Rogue Card! you won the random drawing.

SPIRIT AWARD: I had 3 judges this time for the spirit award, Chet’s team got it this week!

SCORING: There will be scoring put out on Tuesday once all of the scores have been submitted! Also, DON’T FORGET TO LOG IN TO YOUR CROSSFIT OPEN ACCOUNT AND PUT YOUR SCORES IN BEFORE THE MONDAY 8PM DEADLINE!

VOLUNTEERS: I will be putting out an all call on Friday for more volunteers, as we will be able to run more competitors (hopefully) with the next event at a time. So if you would like to be a judge and help out, just wait for that post when I get the details.

PHOTOS: Gopi – Owner of Bluekrishna Photography was out taking pictures of everyone, he will be out for each of the Friday Night Lights. Do us a favor – head over to his Facebook by clicking here and liking his Facebook page! He does amazing work by the way!

Each Friday I will be posting the pictures from the prior Friday, so just look to that!

TONIGHTS FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS DETAILS

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[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Everyone come in tonight to cheer on our Athletes! 

Thoughts and Strategy:

If you want to get in on some thoughts and strategy for this – come in at 4:00 where we will be going over gaming, strategy, equipment, etc.

Pictures from last Friday Night Lights:

Click here to check out the pictures from last FNL – Also, give Gopi some love for taking the pictures at BlueKrishna Photography by clicking here

Volunteers: 

Since they allow people to help with plate changes on this one, it would be super helpful if we could get a bunch of volunteers for tonight to help with the athletes!

 Tentative Schedule:

You get sorted into heats AS YOU ARRIVE – This also depends on how many people we have that will judge, volunteers, how many people arrive late, how long people stretch out the scaled wod. But here is an ideal tentative schedule.

4:00pm – 5:00 Skills and Gaming Talk

5:00pm – 5:30 Heat sorting, Warm Ups, Standards Talk

5:30pm – 5:42pm: Heat 1 (8 people)

5:42pm – 6:00pm: Plate Changes and Transition

6:00pm – 6:12pm: Heat 2 (8 People)

6:12pm – 6:20pm:  Plate Changes and Transition

6:20pm – 6:32pm: Heat 3 (8 people)

6:32pm – 6:40pm: Plate Changes and Transitions

6:40pm – 6:52pm: Heat 4 (8 people)

6:52pm – 7:00pm: Plate changes and transitions

7:00pm – 7:12pm: Heat 5 (8 people)

Warming Up:

The stock warm up should take anywhere around 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on how prepared you generally are.

Teams:

Bri’s Knees

MaCHETe

Betsy’s Babes

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THIS WEEKS ROGUE GIFT CARD GAME! (and a few notes)

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Hey all, just a quick heads up, the next wod is released tonight at about 8:00pm! After that, I will assess per the workout’s equipment and space demands and ask for possible judges/volunteers along with releasing a tentative schedule. If you are interested, post that you are interested in helping along with your answer to this weeks Gift Card Game.

Want to try to win something? for doing something super easy? Get in on our weekly guessing game!

Prize: $20 Rogue Gift Card

When does it start: The guessing is officially open as soon as this post goes up. So, now!

When does it end: You can guess until 7:30pm TONIGHT.

Who can guess: Any current or past members of CrossFit South Bend! Shout out to all of the CFSB Alumnus.

How do you get in on the action: To get your guess in, all you have to do is post to the comments section of THIS POST.

What you are going to post:

You must enter both…

1. The movement(s) that you think will be released in tonight’s wod.

2. Time domain: This will be the tie breaker, you may guess the same as another person, but if you have the closest time domain, you win. You may also guess that the workout will be open ended.

If two people accidentally guess the same movements and time domains, it will go to the person who posted it first.

Winner goes to the person that gets the movements correct this week.

 

What if no one wins? We will have a random drawing on Friday Night for it!

 

So, the comments section should look like this.

Brandon: Thrusters and Burpees – open ended.

Savannah: Pull Ups and Box Jumps – 5 minutes

Emily C: Pull Ups and box jumps – 7 minutes.

Carl: Thrusters – 4 minutes

Amy: Cat Stuff – Open ended

Robby: Sitting – 35 minutes

 

You get the idea

 

How many Guesses?

 

You must post ONLY ONE GUESS PER EACH PERSON

Ready, 3…2…1…Go!

 

What’s in my fridge?

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What’s in my fridge?-CFSB Wellness Wednesday

I have a lot of people ask me what I buy on a weekly basis so I decided to do a video tour of my fridge to talk about what I usually get.

In this video, I’ll talk about the foods I typically eat on a weekly basis, where I buy them, and how to cook them.

For anyone who thinks a Paleo diet is just ribeyes and bacon, you’ll notice that the overwhelming majority of my fridge is actually plant foods, specifically vegetables. Many people think Paleo is just all meat and saturated fat, but nothing could be further from the truth. Paleo is a real whole food way of eating that emphasizes nutrient density and minimizing toxins, and plant foods are a huge part of that.

[Note: I don’t have any financial or business ties to any of the products I mentioned. These just happen to be products I like to buy on a weekly basis]

Short on time? Check out the 90-second preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHI0vFdGRmk