I will be participating as a member of the CrossFit West Chester Team. If you are interested in donating to help me achieve my fundraising goal of $500, please visit my donations page.

Athletes for a Cure is proud to present the 2007 CrossFit Fight Gone Bad. In 2006, hundreds of athletes in 30 centers nationally raised nearly $110,000 to benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) by competing individually and as part of teams on one day in “Fight Gone Bad,” one of the most demanding workout routines in the popular CrossFit exercise regimen.

Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in America, affecting one in six men. Men are 35% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than women are to be diagnosed with breast cancer.

Ahletes for a Cure, a program of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, is a fundraising and awareness program to assist individual athletes in their quest to raise money for better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer. The Prostate Cancer Foundation is the world’s largest philanthropic source of support for prostate cancer research with a simple, yet urgent goal: to find better treatments and a cure for recurrent prostate cancer.

Feel free to contact me if you would like more information or are interested in participating!

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.

I have put myself on the CrossFit program and will also be implementing The Zone diet in the next week or so. I have heard nothing but good things regarding this combination of fitness and nutrition, so I hope to realize some nice results. The community surrounding CrossFit is absolutely incredible. There are literally thousands of CrossFitters around the world who are friendly and helpful to beginners.

This weekend, CrossFit West Chester will be celebrating their grand opening event, and I would like to encourage anyone who is able to come and check it out. You can find out more at the CrossFit West Chester website. Ben Kaminski is the man behind this local CrossFit affiliate and is an outstanding person to know.