Tara knocking out power snatches at the Garage Games this past weekend!
Strength/Skill Work Ring dips: 4 sets of max reps in 30 seconds at the top of every 4 minutes. Use enough assistance to hit 15-20 dips in the first round. Post first round and overall reps to comments.
WOD
In two minutes complete:
12 box jumps
12 kettlebell swings
Max rep burpees in remaining time
1 minute Rest
Complete 5 total rounds.
Score=total burpees
Can you do this one again tomorrow? I like it!!
Cleveland DOES Rock!!!
Cleveland Clinic has passed ban on all sugar-sweetened beverages & foods in vending machines & the cafeteria. What can we do to get AVL on board with this?? Not only @ Mission, but in our schools too!
“The Clinic offers fresh vegetables from a farmers market.”
If they can manage this in Ohio with a far shorter growing season there should be no reason AVL cannot organize the same!
Thoughts???
I wrote an article about healthy vending machines in the area for the Citizen-Times a couple of years ago. I learned that Asheville Cardiology Associates had replaced their vending machine snacks with “healthy” ones, but several employees rebelled, so they put the old ones back in…can you say “irony”?
AF- It seems they should consider what they are paying for the health care plans of the employees that rebel.
Here’s the story. AC-T link’s broken. Business is still going.
Putting healthier snacks in vending machines
By Anne Fitten Glenn
CITIZEN-TIMES CORRESPONDENT
ASHEVILLE – Natural Nosh wants you to have the option of healthier, all-natural snacks when you’re temped to hit the office vending machines.
Natural Nosh currently owns 10 vending machines scattered around town that they keep stocked with all-natural snack foods. They’re hoping to add more.
“It’s still snack food, but it comes from real food sources, and it doesn’t contain dyes, food coloring, or non-natural preservatives,” says business co-owner JayneAnne Tager.
She compares the ingredient list on a bag of all-natural potato chips, containing seven ingredients, all familiar to most eaters, to a bag of Pringles-brand chips, containing 29 ingredients, many of which don’t correspond to words most eaters would describe as food.
“Four of these ingredients are dyes. Who decided we need to dye our food? It doesn’t make it taste better,” Tager said, laughing.
Tager and husband Josh Tager with friends Eddie and Arlene Cotler purchased four vending machines last April from Pat Boy, who started the business a few years ago but wanted to retire. The Tagers and Cotlers have since expanded the number of vending machines and are talking to a number of businesses about placing them in their offices.
“We send a packet of sample products to interested businesses,” Tager said. “We’ve learned that we need traffic of 80 to100 people going by the machine per day in order for the machine to be profitable.”
Natural Nosh’s owners have also learned that potential customers need to talk to their employees before they change their vending machines. Employees often are resistant to employers deciding to dispense with their favorite snacks, and upset that Natural Nosh snacks tend to be slightly more expensive (from 50 cents for fruit leather to $1 for potato chips up to $2 for Wasabi Edamame). The company recently removed a vending machine from Asheville Cardiology when employees rebelled.
Mountain Area Health Education Center replaced the vending machine in their main education building with a Natural Nosh machine a year ago.
“I was surprised by how much resistance and anger I encountered. People haven’t gotten to the point where they see the payoff in paying a little more to eat healthier,” said Meg Hinshaw, employee wellness and safety director at MAHEC.
Hinshaw also buys bulk natural snacks from Natural Nosh and puts together snack baskets. Employees can purchase a snack from the basket on the honor system. She said the system seems to work well, and she’s hoping to put snack baskets into all six of MAHEC’s facilities.
Carolina Day School offers only Natural Nosh vending machines on its campus.
“A few years ago, we were feeling so strongly that the snacks that we had that were high in fat and sugar were both unhealthy and sending the wrong message to our students,” said Claudia Sherry, lower school principal.
Sherry added that: “At first, students were upset. They were used to their favorite snacks, and all of the sudden, they disappeared. But then they found new favorites, and it became a non-issue very quickly. It was very important to us as a school and to our parents to be practicing what we were preaching.”
Other local businesses currently carrying Natural Nosh vending machines are the YWCA, Hanger Hall School for Girls, Warren Wilson College, and Aston Park Housing Authority.
Natural Nosh services, cleans and stocks the machines. Tager says she’d like Natural Nosh to become a full-time business for the four co-owners, but at the moment, the Tagers also own a classic and foreign film rights company, Jayne Anne Tager teaches yoga and the Cotlers own a catering business.
“At the moment, it’s a labor of love,” Josh Tager said.
“But our kids love counting the quarters, so it’s educational,” JayneAnne Tager added.
Another group that’s doing good work in this area is Healthy Buncombe Communities: http://www.healthybuncombe.org.
One of their initiatives included putting baskets of fresh fruits and vegetables in some hospital and doctor staff and waiting rooms.
Some more great improvements from the July/Aug On Ramp Class:
Name Day 1 Time/Day 12 Time Difference
Danielle 11:16/7:26 3:50
Ezra 20:54/8:05 11:49
Rebecca 20:53/9:42 11:11
J. 10:05/7:29 2:36
Rachel 12:49/8:39 4:10
Chris 18:05/10:01 8:04
HH 10:55/7:55 3:00
Tony b. 13:30/8:50 4:40
Kaite C. 12:20/8:04 4:16
Kathy 14:30/8:14 6:16
Others to complete theirs on Saturday…check back for their results!
AWESOME, TOTALLY AWESOME!
Those are some killer increases in times for the ONRAMP group! Good job, folks! What I like is that the Day 1 times are all over the clock: anywhere from 10.5-21 minutes. Today’s times are a nice little cluster: 7.5-10 minutes. That’s some good data, showing that the class had a very wide range of fitness on day 1 but has finished today with a much more aligned level. That is incredible stuff. I saw them do their wod and they all gave it everything, and they looked great! Good job guys! I can’t wait to work out with all of you!
Great work, on-rampers. Welcome to the fold.
Rock it out on rampers- great work!!! Welcome:)
Just want to say thank-you to Corey and the ladies of the 6:30 class this evening for being so understanding when I had to keep excusing myself to answer work phone calls. I was SOOO glad to get a class in; it has made me feel 100% better. And Corey, aren’t you proud of me for not bursting into tears?
Name Total Burpees/Box Hght/KB# RD total reps/bands
Lindrum 49/20″/26lbs/54/blue
Brandi 64/20″/20lbs/58/blue
Tina 63/20″/35lbs/55/red
Amy 69/20″/30lbs/48/red
Rustan 95/24″/53lbs/58/none
Sarah D. 48/20″/30lbs/45/red
Smac 30/20″/20lbs/56/blue
Rice 85/20″/30lbs/56/red
Sarah S. 35/20″/15lbs/ring supports
Red 39/24″/35lbs/59/red
Ari 55/17″/35lbs/57/blue
JP 37/24″x3,20″x2/45lbs/47/none
Brian T. 52/24″/44lbs/56/red
Jess T. 44/20″/26lbs/49/red
Robin 53/14″/18lbs/45/blue
Joshua 69/20″/35lbs/60/red
Ed 48/23″/45lbs/42lbs/blue
J$ 66/20″/35lbs/42 in 3 Rnds/blue
Betsy 33/18″/15lbs/45/blue
Scott 36/24″/35lbs/69/blue
Stacey 54/12″/18lbs/41/red
SK 49/20″/30lbs/44/bl&purp
Stew 82/24″/35lbs/43/Tan+purp
Dean 29/24″/20lbs/42/red
Franklin 44/24″/35lbs/24/red
Matt S. 70/24″/53lbs/47/none
Jana 40/20″/25lbs/58/red+purp
Shayne 65/20″/35lbs/46/red
Anna 63/20″/25lbs/45/blue
Kenan 41/20″/35lbs/53/red
Amber 76/20″/35lbs/23-purp/30-red
Katie B. 28/20″-17″/35lbs/54/blue
Lisa K. 53/20″/20lbs/58/blue
Allison 34/20″/26lbs/?
Sean 72/28″/62lbs/62/none
KK 76/18″/45lbs/57/red
MCK 59/16″/30lbs/42/purple
Elin 59/20″/45lbs/37/red
you are welcome J$, even if you did beat me on ring dips. Great job in the wod, you were definately pushing me on those burpees. Revenge of the Burpees, as Shanna said. Thanks to Shanna for challenging me with the 45 lb KB! New milestones for me last night… consecutive pull-ups and a 45 lb KB in a wod! whoot whoot! CFA is amazing~!