The following article was submitted to us by Dr. Sandra Fowkes Godek. Dr. Godek is the director of the HEAT Institute and a professor of sports medicine at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She is an expert in thermoregulation, hydration, exercise-associated hyponatremia and exertional heat stroke, and has conducted research in these areas with NFL, NHL, NBA & collegiate sports teams. Tim Noakes also cites her research in his history of hyponatremia, Waterlogged. Fluid and electrolyte balance logically and by the numbers. When high school […]

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In 2007, the ACSM updated its position stand on “exercise and fluid replacement” under lead author Michael Sawka. In the decade prior, documented cases of athletes dying from exercise-associated hyponatremic encephalopathy (EAHE) were linked to the ACSM’s 1996 position stand which encouraged athletes to drink “as much as tolerable” as well as to Gatorade advertisements like this one, which encouraged drinking potentially fatal quantities of fluid. Yet the ACSM and Gatorade Sports Science Institute’s current hydration guidelines do not encourage […]

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A Rate without Time? Twice before (Part 1, Part 2) we have covered Dr. Brian Giordano’s study, Injury Rate and Patterns Among CrossFit Athletes, on our blog. To recap, the study used an online survey in an effort to find the injury rate in CrossFit. They found, “75 participants (19.4%) had experienced at least 1 injury resulting from a CrossFit workout in the 6 months prior to filling out the survey that met the defined injury criteria. Of this population, 63 participants […]

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“You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you’re criticizing …” – Mark Rippetoe, 2008. I recently appeared on ESPN’s Outside the Lines to “react” to Mark Fainaru-Wada’s theatrical and inaccurate critique of CrossFit. I appeared opposite Mark Rippetoe, a former CrossFit […]

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