The End of the 8 Week Nutrition Challenge!

Congratulations to everyone who completed the 8 Week Best Shape of Your Life Challenge 2016!
It is always great to see everyone progress, build upon and develop new healthy habits which hopefully will continue in the months and years to come. This was probably one of our more successful Challenges in terms of consistency across the 8 Weeks as we had a large percentage of the group persevere all through the 8 weeks, while making changes to their eating and training habits along the way. It is no easy accomplishment to record and continually be evaluating your nutrition for an 8 week period so well done everyone who did so. I hope everyone learned plenty and, if not already achieved, are on a clearer path towards their own personal goals.
A huge congratulations to our overall Winner...Madison Chamley! Madi score consistently well through all her food diaries and lifestyle marker responses, as well as performing in all Challenge WODs, attending regular classes and achieving some very impressive results in the Body Composition Tests and Benchmark Workout!  Madi was also able to achieve a number of her personal goals she set out to do during the challenge including getting her first strict pull up!! Well done Madi!
Madi was very closely followed in second place by Jenny O’Connor! Both athletes where neck and neck throughout the Challenge competing for the top 2 spots and in the end it came down to a very small 15 points. Third overall was Kate Dorward who again was very consistent across the 8 weeks (seems to be a trend J) losing over 5kg body weight in a very short amount of time!
Some other very impressive mentions were:
-          Erin Dorward who had a 9 point increase in her Body Composition Level out of 100 (highest overall) which included her losing 6.9kg of fast mass and adding 0.8kg muscle mass which is an amazing result.
-          David Clark also had a very impressive Body Composition Change adding 7 points to his score out of 100 while also adding 1.7kg of muscle mass and losing 3.1kg of fat mass!!
-          Meghan Staggard added 6 points to her score out of 100, adding 1.4kg muscle mass and lost 2.5kg fat mass in just 8 weeks!
-          Alison Cox had the highest overall improvement in her Benchmark WOD score, improving by a massive 60% while moving up a level of difficulty at the same time!
-          Dee Smith also added an extra 31 reps to her Benchmark WOD score which is an almost 40% increase!
-          Emma Edge added an extra 38 reps to her Benchmark WOD score with a 35% increase in work capacity as well!
I was able to collect a lot of data over the 8 weeks which is what we do in CrossFit to continually evaluate our training program and service we provide to our members. I collected attendance information, nutrition quality through scoring diaries against set criteria, measured lifestyle factors such as water, sleep, mobility etc, Body Composition Results and Benchmark & regular WOD results. Overall we saw some positive numbers in a short period of time (8 weeks) and plenty of correlation between high attendance numbers compared with overall body composition and benchmark WOD results. Basically, those who trained regularly and ate a good balanced diet full of vegetables, good sources of Protein and Healthy Fats while sleeping 6-8 hours/night, drinking plenty of water and mobilizing regularly, had the highest positive results in their Body Composition and the highest Benchmark WOD improvements. The data speaks for itself!
With ever challenge that we run there is always room for improvement. At Bring It On CrossFit we want to continue to strive to provide the best possible Challenge and Service to our members. I am very appreciative of all the feedback we have received following this challenge and I am already looking at ways to make our next BIOCF Nutrition Challenge even better!
I hope everyone who completed the 2016 Best Shape of Your Life Nutrition Challenge has taken on board new healthy habits and have a clearer path to achieving their own personal health and fitness goals. These 8 weeks are only meant as a Kickstart and I know with consistency and a little coaching wherever needed, you will all continue to become stronger, faster and fitter individuals!
“It’s not about perfect. It’s about EFFORT, and when you implement that effort into your life...EVERY SINGLE DAY, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs. KEEP GOING. REMEMBER WHY YOU STARTED”.
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
Coach Jared.
 

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