Metabolic Conditioning

Once we've got our nutrition or fueling down pat, it's now time to transport and use that fuel properly through training - metabolic conditioning.

We should be conditioning our body's ability to metabolize, or break down (and use), the carbohydrates, fat, and protein we're ingesting as fuel in different situations, through training.

In the grand scheme of things we need to be able to perform work, or generate power output in all time durations and kinds of activities well, in order to be determined as fit

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The Open

Come join at 6PM on Fridays starting 2/23 for 5 weeks, ending on 3/23, in participating in the annual CrossFit Games Open competition!

For most of us who have been training at Idahome Movement Academy for several months now, this will be a fun chance to see where our fitness level is compared to that of hundreds of thousands all around the world!

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For what are you getting Better?

Many of us are unconsciously operating from a position of self-hatred, self-judgment, and shame that we hate ourselves for the way we are and that is what spurs us to improve ourselves. This may not prove to be the best way.

What Kornfield says that we should do instead is to love and accept ourselves for the way we are while we seek to improve ourselves.

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"...keep moving forward..."

Is your "Why" an Intrinsic or Extrinsic, Motivation? In other words is your motivation from within, or from something like a product, person to strive to be like, or even a prize that you would earn through all your hard work?

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Taste the Rainbow and Save Money! (For breakfast)

Breakfast Idea (take as much as you want and need from this one):
1 Red Onion ($1.23) (1.24 pounds * $0.99/pound)
1 Red Bell Pepper ($1.29)
1 Yellow Bell Pepper ($1.29)
1/2 bundle of Organic Green Kale ($0.99)
12 oz bacon ($4.99)
1 Tbsp Coconut Oil ($0.15) ($24.99 for 84 fl oz from Costco - 170 Tbsp)

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6,000 Calorie New Year Challenge

Join this 31 Day Challenge starting Monday, January 1st, to accumulate at least 6,000 Calories on the Bike or the Rower!

You'll have all of January (1/1 - 1/31) to accumulate at least 6,000 Calories on the Concept2 Rower, or the Assault Airbike!

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How to Push Up the Right Way

We've all done them.
A lot of us don't like them.
Some of us do them, but it doesn't feel good.
A very few of us can do a lot of them.

But how many of us can actually do Push Ups the right way?

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