This week’s honored member started back with us in early January of this year. She has progressed two full Levels in our Burn system now tolerating just about everything we throw at her. And on top of that, she had knee surgery last Friday and showed up on Wednesday of this week for another workout!!! That’s an Athlon Elite Spartan Warrior if there ever was one!! Nice work Kathy. Keep it up! You embody what Athlon Elite is all about! See you soon!

5 Rounds For Time
15 Deadlifts – 185 lbs
400m Run

New research paper out on Lipoic Acid.

The results “strongly suggest that lipoic acid supplementation may be useful as an inexpensive but effective intervention strategy . . . reducing known risk factors for the development of atherosclerosis and other inflammatory vascular diseases in humans.”

“Also of considerable interest, Frei said, is the apparent role of lipoic acid supplementation in reducing weight gain. It appears to have this effect both through appetite suppression, an enhanced metabolic rate, and – at least in laboratory animals – has been shown to stimulate higher levels of physical activity, which again would increase caloric expenditure and further reduce weight.”

There is a lot more information at the link and you owe it to yourself to read up on this.

We have it for Sale at Athlon Elite.

Have you ever noticed how many of those delicious baking recipes call for either white sugar or brown sugar? Many of those special cakes and cookies that everyone loves call for something to give them that sinfully yummy sweet taste.

Unfortunately, many recipes call for white or brown sugar instead of a healthier alternative – molasses. While it may not be possible to eliminate all granular sugar in baking recipes, molasses can be a wonderful substitute for some of the granular sugar. Today, white sugar is not regarded as a particularly healthy ingredient. Sugar is now widely recognized as something that may contribute to the health problems in young people today.

Brown sugar, unfortunately, is only marginally better. Many people think that brown sugar is a “unrefined” sugar. This is a mistake. Brown sugar actually starts as normal refined white sugar, but then is rolled in molasses to give the sugar crystals some outside colour and flavour. In fact, if you take some between your fingers and rub them together, the colour can rub off.

There is an easy solution in the baker’s cupboard. Instead of using sugar in your recipes, substitute molasses . For a number of recipe ideas, visit www.crosbys.com.

Molasses is one of first steps of the sugar refining process. When the juice from crushed sugar cane is boiled to produce crystallized sugar Fancy Molasses is what’s left at the bottom of the vat. The sweet pure cane juice that is extracted from the crushed stalks of sugar cane has 100% of all its natural nutrients. The Fancy Molasses that we buy in Canada is a 100% natural product. It has not been subjected to any of the chemicals in the refining process, as is the case with normal sugar.

Molasses can be substituted as follows:

One cup of molasses equals 3/4 cup of sugar. In baking, decrease the liquid by 1/4 cup for each cup of molasses. Omit any Baking Powder and add 1/2 teaspoon of Baking Soda.

Molasses is truly one of those comfort foods that will always be in every homemaker’s cupboard.

Credit: www.newscanada.com

This was the final week of preparation before the yearly ritual of spring training baseball gets underway. The excitement of spring training this year is magnified for us here since the above group of dedicated professional baseball players spent their off-season training and working on improving their chances at making the big show right here with us at Athlon Elite! They’ve spent hours here, gaining lean muscle mass in our “growth program,” improving power and speed in our athletic programs, and sweating through our preseason conditioning program. This week the heralded honor of Spartan of the Week goes to these seven dedicated professionals whom are sure to have a better season this year as a result of their hardwork and dedication this off-season. Good luck fellas and we’ll see you all next year…

Jimmy VanOstrand

Gary Daley (too pretty to picture above)

Thomas Eager

Matt Canepa

Rocky Roquet

Evan Reed

Bud Norris

10 Rounds for time
10 Front Squats – 95 pounds
10 “L” Pull Ups
10 Good Mornings – 95 pounds

New EgCG study released today with intriguing findings:”According to research reported at the Sixth International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention, sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research, a standardized green tea polyphenol preparation (Polyphenon E) limits the growth of colorectal tumors in rats treated with a substance that causes the cancer.”Green Tea has a multitude of exciting health benefits. No matter your age or situation, you need to take a pure Green Tea extract daily in my opinion.”The researchers believe these findings will pave the way for clinical trials with green tea polyphenols in humans.” And I for one cannot wait to see the results!Get your Green Tea on at Athlon Elite!