Paleo Slow Cooking Book Signing

Posted by on Sep 28, 2012 in Events, Outside the gym, Paleo, Recipes | 2 comments Chrissy will be at Lyon Books in downtown Chico on Monday, October 1st for a book signing at 7pm. Her book Paleo Slow Cooking: Gluten Free Recipes Made Simple has been a project she has been working on over the past year. In fact many of you have sampled the recipes at our NorCal potlucks and a few gym birthday celebrations. Be sure to bring your book and come on down to Lyon Books to get it...
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The Latest NorCal Video…..ish

Posted by on Sep 26, 2012 in Featured Clients, In The Gym, Uncategorized | 5 comments Where to start?  These three ladies took time out of their busy schedules to contribute to the NorCal video library.  One word.  Wow!  From cutting edge editing to their “stellar” movements these “No Reppers” may have a future ahead of them.  Things like last place ribbons, DNF’s, injuries, are just a few I can see in their immediate future. In all seriousness...
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Best/Funniest Comment Wins!!!

Posted by on Sep 26, 2012 in Featured Clients, In The Gym, Uncategorized | 15 comments We are posting one simple picture today of our good friend John K.  to see what people think/assume he is doing in the picture below.  If it is any help we have no clue what he is doing or even how he got in this position by himself.  May the funniest comment win!  Good luck to you all!  The winner will receive a copy of “Paleo Slow Cooking” or a New Norcal T-Shirt! Share this...
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Fall Challenge October 13th 2012

Posted by on Sep 20, 2012 in Events, In The Gym, Uncategorized | 11 comments If you missed the “Norcal Spring Team Challenge” you owe to yourself to make this event.  Click HERE to sign up now!  This event will be a team event, but everyone will also be scored as an individual.  Here is what you can expect Saturday October 13th, a great team event, Paleo Pot Luck, great friends and lastly some great competition.  The top 3 teams, top 3 females and top 3...
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Recalling “In the Zone” Experiences

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in Uncategorized | 2 comments Last October, I wrote a blog about “Being in the Zone.”  After Saturdays Mud Blast it made me recall the article and all the psychological things I learned when working on my masters degree at Chico State.  About half-way through the race Jerrad Fisher and I were coming up on the obstacles and I tried to completely leap over one of them catching the top of it with my trail leg.  I almost...
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Mud Blast Recap!

Posted by on Sep 18, 2012 in Events, Featured Clients, Outside the gym, Uncategorized | 3 comments Last Saturday 90+ people participated on Team NorCal for this years Mud Blast challenge! Not to mention another 20 or so from the gym who participated on different teams. All in all we could not be more proud of everyone who participated. This event had folks wading through mud pits, climbing over a few walls, running through tires, climbing over pipes, and eventually ending in the river. The...
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Resting Heart Rate

Posted by on Sep 12, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 comments What is heart rate?  Well, for our purposes it is how many times your heart beats in one minute.  But there is also different types of heart rates that interest us in particular when it comes to training and non-training.  But for this blog I will mainly focus on Resting Heart Rate and follow up in another blog about heart rate for training purposes. Resting heart rate is simply your pulse...
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Mud Blast Update and Announcement

Posted by on Sep 10, 2012 in Events, Uncategorized | 2 comments Happy Monday to you all! Just a reminder that this Saturday is the Mud Blast event and ALL SATURDAY CLASSES ARE CANCELLED so that everyone can attend the event. Even if you are not participating in the Mud Blast we would love for you to come on out and cheer on our Team. Packet pick up is on Thursday, September 13th from 7am -11am and 5pm – 7pm. You can pick up your Team NorCal t-shirt when...
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Jen Wraith and The Bidwell Bump

Posted by on Sep 7, 2012 in Events, Featured Clients, Outside the gym | 1 comment We always talk about challenging yourself in the gym, aiming high, putting the work in and you will accomplish more than you ever thought possible.  This doesn’t just apply in the gym.  We want you to take this positive attitude and goal setting approach to all walks of your life.  We want you to apply it to your job, to your family, to your schooling, to your extra curricular...
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Coconut Milk Beverage

Posted by on Aug 31, 2012 in Recipes, Uncategorized | 4 comments   Hey all your Norcalers who have been hearing about my fiance’s great coconut milk recipes!  A lot of you have been asking me what has Christina been making in the kitchen and experimenting with coconut milk.  Well here is one of her latest concoctions using Light Coconut Milk from Trader Joes.  I will try to post one of her recipes every so often and you let us know what you...
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Chico State Women’s Soccer

Posted by on Aug 30, 2012 in Events, News, Outside the gym | 0 comments We all have lives outside of the gym and as a “family” it’s always good to support one another on every realm of our lives.  Two of our members, Jenna Hunter and Ana Farmer, are coaches for the Chico State Women’s Soccer team.  Their season is underway and from what Jenna and Ana say, they are looking pretty darn good. Tonight at 4:30pm their girls will take on Western...
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Good At Some Things, But Great At Nothing.

Posted by on Aug 29, 2012 in In The Gym, Movement, Nutrition & Health, Outside the gym, Paleo, Uncategorized | 3 comments “Good at some things, but great at nothing”. Back in college I had a mentor who used this phrase to describe undergraduate students who were classified as “generalists” in my major (which I was… and he reminded me, on occasion). What that meant was, instead of picking a specific area of technology to specialize in, we focused on doing a little bit in every area....
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