Wednesday, 09.01.10: Bringing New Definition to HOTlanta

Check it out! Mike G (as also seen in the picture slideshow in the bottom left of the homepage), a Harlem Renegade and longtime supporter, demonstrates a WOD with the CrossFit Atlanta crew.  Note: Mike, sporting our Afro Brutality, has an unfair advantage; he told Syn the Afro gives him power.  

Tuesday, 08.31.10: Syn is Sic Again...

Sir Syn is now an official staff member at sicfit.com and will be posting blogs on a monthly basis.  Him and only four others were selected for this task, and Syn is incredibly honored.  

You can read his latest post on the origins of Afro Brutality HERE.

Afro Brutality of the Day:

Tamara Holmes - of CrossFit Oakland.  A Harlem favorite, with her unbelievable strength, she is the Bay Area equivalent to Wreck.  

Saturday, 08.28.10: Location, location, location

Step 2 - change your environment. 

Do you enjoy a good, heart-wrenching episode of Grey's Anatomy?  Does Die Hard with a Vengeance get you all riled up?  If you're an emotional eater, these media blitzes of manipulated emotions also does something else.  Makes you want to eat.  Sadness.  Excitement.  Anger.  Stress.  All emotions that can be "fixed" temporarily, by food. As a general rule, Syn finds it best to avoid the exposure to media or types of situations designed to adversely effect your emotions.  Heavy metal music- obviously does not count.

Changing your environment is much more than just the type of media you're exposed to.  Its also about not putting yourself in the situations where backsliding into bad habits is inevitable.  A night out of drinking with the girls that always ends at that late night diner.  Hot dogs and popcorn at baseball games.  Fried chicken at the local soul food joint because it's your friend's birthday.  

Syn has a whole theory about how a person loses a lot more than lbs when they lose weight.  Sometimes making the commitment to take your life in that direction means the loss of friendships that didn't inspire you to be a better person or help you to achieve your goals.  It means making your friend dinner at home for her birthday, instead of a serving of chicken and waffles.

Today's assignment: call your friend, the one that inspires you.  Turn off Fox News.  Delete the pizza delivery number out of your phone. 

Inspirational Brutality of the Day:

Afro-Tastic Andy Haggerty from North Shore, New Zealand, because Harlem loves a good Kiwi.

And the lovely Ditte Pepper from Denmark -