Originally published in English on May 4th, 2015. Translated by CrossFit L1 Staff member Gabriel García Merlos CrossFit Inc. y el Dr. Tim Noakes han actuado  sobre Gatorade y sus socios en ciencia del ejercicio. El tema: Hidratación. Crossfit recibió una conferencia internacional sobre Hyponatremia Asociada al Ejercicio. Noakes fue de la mano con el porta voz de Gatorade y aun publico la historia de la creación de la hyponatremia asociada al ejercicio (EAH ocurre cuando el atleta bebe demasiado durante el ejercicio […]

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In July of 2015, CrossFit CEO and Founder Greg Glassman fixed his sights on the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN). In less that 140 characters he accurately identified the organization for the soda-funded marketing tool that it was. @CrossFitCEO: “.@CocaCola‘s @gebnetwk trolls for “scientists” to make a case for hiding metabolic syndrome w/ exercise. Watch @ACSMNews suck the soda tit!” His observation soon made headlines, and Coke was quickly scrambling to explain its large-scale funding of health professionals and organizations. On the […]

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Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present this guest post by Dr. Lon Kilgore. In a recent paper published in the Journal of Human Kinetics, a multi-university group of academics attempted to compare the levels of antioxidants in plasma following 20 minutes of treadmill running at a submaximal exercise intensity and a maximal effort at the CrossFit workout Cindy. There was no hypothesis forwarded, it was a straightforward descriptive study so no presumptions for direction of any measured changes should […]

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