Is It In You?

Gatorade’s tag line resonates with athletes and enthusiasts around the world as the universal signal for getting that colored sugared water down your gullet to promote hydration during intense exercise. It’s also the basis for this random pwning…

I know this video is going to give some people ideas. If someone asks you, “Is it in you?”, while you’re sweating away at the local gym, say no, or get them before they get you

What’s Your Excuse?

We all make up some excuse NOT to take care of ourselves or to exercise. Some of us blame our bumb knee like Ed Lau or make up other stories that justify our laziness. Believe me, I’ve made up some good ones of my own. Well, what if you had no knees…or limbs for that matter?

This definitely makes any excuse that anyone comes up with from now on pretty lame and stupid (including my own). Thanks for the video Paul!

Pulling A Muscle At Muscle Beach Santa Monica

I’m back from California and man am I missing the Sunshine.  It’s totally pissing rain here in Vancouver and it looks like Fall is inevitable.  While down in California, I made a visit to Santa Monica, home of the Original Muscle Beach.

Muscle Beach Santa Monica is rumoured to be where the whole fitness industry began.  You can find it South of the Santa Monica Pier.  I can definitely believe that there is some truth to that because I’ve never seen a city where so few people were overweight.  They even have prepackaged cottage cheese and fruit served at local coffee shops.  I can’t stand cottage cheese, but it’s a staple for a lot of fitness nuts.  The other Muscle Beach is on Venice Beach, also in California and home of Hulk Hogan.

Here To Pump You Up…

During the day you can see people working out with the equipment that doesn’t resemble the stuff you see at the local fitness world. Instead you’ll see people pulling out Russian Kettle Bells, skipping ropes, exercise balls and using their own body weight on the rings and the pull up bars. Trainers are all over the place with their celebrity or wannabe celebrity clients.  After walking around Santa Monica, it’s pretty clear that physical fitness is important here due to the way people look and the number of healthy choices provided by even eateries that you would assume would be total greasy spoons.

Where Did C.J. Go?

Muscle Beach Santa Monica is also where the show Baywatch takes place, even though most of the show is filmed in Hawaii due to the warmer waters.  I saw the yellow trucks and the rea life guard floater thingies, but no one was running around in red trunks or red speedo one piece swimsuits.  Bummer.

Turning Molson Muscle into Real Muscle… 

Since I was on Muscle Beach, I decided to work on my own muscles.  After driving around California and eating at a lot of less than healthy places (and some really great places which I’ll talk about in another post), it was time to work it off.  Check out the video!

It’s amazing what a little bit of inspirational Hasselhoff inspired music and some pretty pictures and transitions can do to fluff up the most boring of videos.  That’s actually my worst set.  The first set I did was way better and totally continous, but the bar started to get sticky and my palms started to get torn up. The Machine could kick my ass on those, but she was busy holding the camera. The deadlift was from last month, but it kinda finished off the video with a bit of an inspirational kick.  Heck, I think I inspired myself.  I should really get back to my CrossFit workouts if I want to become a Spartan.

My Girlfriend Can Kick Your Girlfriend’s Ass

Kelly stars in her first Crossfit video where she kindly hands two men their masculinity in a squat off for all the glory. The Fraser Brothers shame their clan as “The Machine” runs them over. Poor guys…

Not only can Kelly kick your girlfriend’s ass, but she might be able to kick your ass too…mine included… Kelly has been training Leo and me in the ways of Crossfit. Hopefully one of these days, we can kick eachother in the chest and call ourselves Spartans.  Luckily, we are naturally endowed with the power of the Asian Squat.

The Power of the Asian Squat

This explains so much…

I never realized there was a difference! This would explain my freakish ability to squat more than my body weight without much training. It’s comfortable, more stable, and chicks dig it.  It will be my secret weapon in my quest to become 300 Fit