The UnRx Podcast

It Starts with Food!

Michael Melillo — Wed, 23 May 2012 06:30:00 -0700

We are VERY excited for Dallas and Melissa as their new book approaches it’s release date! Dallas and Melissa first announced their book on our show last year on episode 9 of our show.

There are lots of paleo books hitting the market these days, hell I’m even working on a paleo baby food E-book, but if you are going to read one paleo book in 2012, THIS is the one you should read.

You can pre-order the book from the link below.

It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

Episode 15 with Elisabeth Akinwale

Michael Melillo — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:43:00 -0700

This episode’s guest is Elisabeth Akinwale. Elisabeth was a 2011 Reebok Crossfit Games competitor having qualified out of the North Central region. She has a background in gymnastics, but has been doing Crossfit for less than a year, and the Open was her first competition. She has a quite a story and gives a very honest and in-depth look at what it was like to compete all the way from the very first week of the Open up until the last day of this year’s games.

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Show links:

Elisabeth’s page on the Crossfit Games site

Crossfit Chicago

LifeAsRx tour in Chicago

Attn: Crossfit games athletes

Michael Melillo — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:35:47 -0700

We are looking for some Crossfit games athletes to come on the show and talk about the experience competing this year. It doesn’t matter if they competed in individuals, teams, or masters, we’d love to hear from all of them.

You can email us as show@unrxpodcast.com to get in touch with us.

Episode 14 with Dawn Fletcher

Michael Melillo — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:52:27 -0700

This week our guest is Dawn Fletcher from Fletcher Fitness. She is an expert on sports psychology and mental training. We discuss the effects of mental training on elite athletes and their performances at the 2011 Reebok Crossfit Games as well as for the average crossfitter.

Also: Please take a second and click on the T-shirt giveaway poll link below. The shirt that wins the poll will be printed up, and I’ll do a giveaway to listeners.

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Recommendation:

Progenex - Discount code: UNRX

Show links:

T-shirt giveaway poll

Fletcher Fitness

The mental aspect of the Crossfit Games

Crossfit Games

SMART goals

Here is a link to our T-shirt giveaway poll

Michael Melillo — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:26:08 -0700

Here is a link to our T-shirt giveaway poll:

Please let us know so we can get the shirts printed for the giveaway, thanks.

A collection of links about #AHS11

Michael Melillo — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:14:00 -0700

A bunch of blogs have already begun posting their wrap ups for the Ancestral Health Symposium. Since I wasn’t able to go, I know that I will be reading them all. So I figured, why not collect them all into one place for both myself and other people. So this list will grow over time, but here it is so far:

Lindsay Stärke’s initial thoughts

Important ideas from naturally engineered

Animal - not a wrap up, but where most people ate

Reflections by the daily lipid

Whole 9’s poster preso (Hear our interview here)

Fitbomb’s dining experience

NomNomPaleo gives us thoughts on Day 1 and Day 2

This is all I have for now, please send in more links as they come. I’m sure Robb Wolf will be writing something up shortly. If when videos and slide decks become available, I’d love to check that stuff out as well.

UPDATE: A few more links

Bare5 shares their thoughts

Free the animal recaps

The omnivore’s decision

Emotions for engineers

UPDATE 2:

Melissa McEwen gives her recap

Fitbomb’s AHS recap

UPDATE 3:

La Vida Low Carb does interviews

Big Think - Eat like a caveman

Some thoughts by Clifton Harski

That Paleo Guy’s Review

Weight Maven’s recap

Primal Palate’s video

UPDATE 4:

Balanced Bites recap

Vote here for our T-shirt giveaway

Michael Melillo — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:26:24 -0700

Vote here for our T-shirt giveaway:

As we said in the last post, we are conducting some research on which shirt design to get printed for our shirt giveaway. We really need your feedback.

Thanks

It's Friday. Discounts and giveaways...

Michael Melillo — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:01:00 -0700

Hey everyone, Just wanted to send out a little thank you note to all of you. Every week our stats tell us that more and more people are listening to the show. I didn’t really have much in the way of expectations for this when I started back in May, but I figured if I gave it a shot it would be fun, and maybe some people would enjoy it as well.

It turns out that a lot of you enjoy the show. All of the ratings so far in iTunes are 5 stars. If you’d like to give the show a rating, click here to do so. We are also trying to be more active with our Facebook page. Give us a like on there if you want to see what we are up to there.

Now to the good stuff. I am pleased to announce that we can now offer a 10% discount on Progenex. When it comes to nutrition, I favor eating whole foods, including after working out. But life doesn’t always allow for that. When I go for a protein shake, it is usually chocolate More Muscle. By using the discount code UNRX, you will receive 10% off your entire order.

Lastly, but not least, I have been trying to figure out the logistics of how to do a T-shirt giveaway to you the listeners. I think I have come up with an idea that works reasonably well and won’t leave me bankrupt for mailing out shirts all over the country. Visit our Facebook page and leave us a comment on our wall telling us what your favorite design and color combination is. For example, “green and gold logo on grey shirt”, or “navy varsity font on yellow shirt.” Whatever the most popular shirt is, we’ll print up a batch of them, and send them out to the voters.

For those of you that don’t want to wait until the giveaway, or you want to help support the show anyway, we are a free shipping deal going until August 15th. Just enter in the code: FREESHIP11 at checkout, and you will receive free shipping. In Canada use the code: FREESHIP11CAN

Thanks again for all of the support.

Episode #13 - 2011 Reebok Crossfit Games recap

Michael Melillo — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:47:00 -0700

This week I’m joined by a special guest who attended the Crossfit Games down in Carson, CA. He gives us his take on what it was like to be there, and I cover what it was like to watch the action at home and online. Some calamity ensues.

UPDATE: In my sleep deprived state I completely forgot to discuss the ESPN3 coverage of the event, which was incredible. I may add on to this week’s recording to convey just how great Heather Bergeron’s commentary was, and overall how good things looked/sounded on ESPN3.

DISCLAIMER: The opinion’s of our guest do not represent the opinions of the show or it’s host.

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Recommendation:

Drywall’s sponsor

Show links:

Crossfit Games

Crossfit New England are the champs

Judges appreciation video

Free shipping on all of our shirts!

Michael Melillo — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:01:00 -0700

Free shipping on all of our shirts!:

Hello there fans of the show. For the next 2 weeks we will have free shipping on all of our shirts. This is a pretty good savings. If you enjoy the show, please consider buying one of our 3 designs. Lots of different colors to choose from! Also, if you wouldn’t mind spreading the word about the show, we’d really appreciate it. Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google Plus, we love all aspects of social media.

Just use these codes:
In the US: FREESHIP11
And in Canada: FREESHIP11CAN
Check out all of our shirts!

Lastly, We’ll be recording our 2011 Reebok Crossfit Games recap show today. If you have any questions, or want to call in with your favorite moments from this weekend, call (410) 635-4556 and leave us a voicemail!

Episode #12 - Crossfit Games

Michael Melillo — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:10:59 -0700

This week we only have 1 topic. The 2011 Reebok Crossfit Games and all of the information that has been released so far this week. The show will cover the Master’s division workouts that have already been announced, Las Vegas setting odds on who will win and taking bets, the fact that a swim test took place today, and lastly, the announcement of the first events.

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Recommendation:

Bacon and Burpees Contest

Show links:

Swim test announcement video

Swim test photo gallery

Las Vegas odds on the athletes

Master’s WODs

First Event announced - Beach WOD

Episode #11

Michael Melillo — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:53:37 -0700

This week’s guest is Greg Everett from Catalyst Athletics and the Performance Menu. Some of the topics include how things are run at his gym and the competitive lifters there, the Paleo diet for high performance athletes, and a few other things.

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Recommendation:

Ringworm - Scars

Show links:

Catalyst Athletics

Performance Menu

Greg’s new Olympic Weightlifting DVD

Episode #10

Michael Melillo — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:01:06 -0700

This week we are joined by Badier from the Lazy Caveman blog. Badier and I discuss the various misconceptions with the paleo diet, post workout nutrition, and a few other topics.

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Show links:

The Lazy Caveman

Archevore
SFH’s blog post on post workout nutrition
Balanced Bite’s post on Bacon
The Dirty Dozen / The Clean 15
Whole9’s reasons to eat seasonal
The guide to sugar in fruit

Episode #9

Michael Melillo — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:00:06 -0700

This week we are joined by Dallas and Melissa from Whole9. Most people are familiar with Whole9 because of their 30 day guide to getting started eating right with real food, giving yourself a metabolic reset and healing your damaged digestive system. Many people’s first experiences with a paleo or primal diet start with the Whole 30. But in addition to that, Dallas and Melissa have a lot more going on. They even make a major announcement on this week’s episode. What to find out what it is? Well, you will have to give it a listen.

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Show links:

Whole 9

The Whole 30 success guide

Fish oil calculator

RKC certifications

Gym Jones

Intro Music - High on Fire

Episode #8

Michael Melillo — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:41:51 -0700

This week we feature an interview with Mike Osuna from I am Crossfit in Miami. Mike is putting on an amazing event in late August called the Summer Crush Games. If you have thought about going to a Crossfit competition but didn’t want to watch workouts all weekend, this is the event for you. Not only will there be some of the top Crossfit athletes competing, but there will be lots of other entertainment at the event. Listen to the interview and check out the link below to find out more information.

We have also launched some new designs in our new T-shirt store. We also added slimfit women’s shirts as well as Men’s shirts. If you want to help support the show, you can buy a shirt.

As you may have heard, we are playing voicemail messages from our listeners as a new segment. We want to hear who you think is going to win this year’s Crossfit games. Call (410)635-4556 and leave us a message. Don’t be shy, you won’t have to talk to any humans.

Also, we would love some more rating and reviews in the iTunes store. Take a few seconds of your time to help us out. If you are unsure, how to write a review, here is a screenshot of iTunes, and you can see the link at the bottom to write a review.

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Show notes:

Amanda WOD data analysis

UnRx shirt store - http://unrxpodcast.spreadshirt.com/

I am Crossfit - http://iamcrossfit.com
Summer Crush Games: http://www.summercrushgames.com/

Intro music - JR Writer

Interview transition - DJ Khaled

Here is a video of an interview we did with Lake Tahoe TV....

Michael Melillo — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:27:33 -0700

Here is a video of an interview we did with Lake Tahoe TV. It’s short, give it a watch.

Episode #7

Michael Melillo — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:45:25 -0700

This week we feature an interview with Matt Hoff from Crossfit Inception. Matt was recently in charge of judging and operations for the Rumble by the River, a competition in the garage games series. We also discuss what it’s like to do Crossfit and eat paleo while deployed. This week is also the launch of our new T-shirt store. If you want to help support the show, you can buy a shirt. Also, we would love some more rating and reviews in the iTunes store. Take a few seconds of your time to help us out.

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Show notes:

UnRx shirt store - http://unrxpodcast.spreadshirt.com/

Paleo Now - http://paleonow.com
Garage Games Series: http://garagegames.crossfitgarage.com/2011-series/
Crossfit Inception: http://crossfitcolumbusga.com/

Intro music - Murphy’s Law

Episode #6

Michael Melillo — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:15:19 -0700

This week’s episode is a quick overview of this weekend’s regional competitions. This weekend is stacked with top athletes from the Northeast, South Central, and Southern California regions. Lots of last year’s game competitors are back to qualify and they have a lot of new competition. We go over the athletes and some of the specific workouts.

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Episode #5

Michael Melillo — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:15:00 -0700

This week’s episode features Eric Webb, an iPhone app developer who works out at Crossfit Central in Austin, Texas. He has a new app coming out soon that will allow Crossfit affiliates to better serve their members. Athletes will gain a better way to track their workouts, while keeping closer contact with their coaches. After we cover the app, we get into the South Central regional which is coming up in a couple of weeks.

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Show notes:

Recommendations

Rogue Fitness - www.roguefitness.com

Links

Outside the Box app - www.reachoutsidethebox.com

Soundtrack

Intro - Wu-Tang Clan

Recommendations - Cro-mags

Episode #4

Michael Melillo — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:20:17 -0700

This week we go over the results of the initial weekend of regional competitions for the 2011 Reebok Crossfit Games. Southeast, North Central, Canada West, and Australia were the first to go last weekend, and there were some interesting results that might surprise people based on the results from the Open. Also discussed are the scoring methods for this and other Crossfit events, and the effects of the cut after workout #4. Think a cut makes things more competitive? You may want to guess again.

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Show notes:

Recommendations

Evernote - www.evernote.com

Links

Crossfit Games - games.crossfit.com

Soundtrack

Intro - Integrity

Recommendations - Raekwon

Outro - Death in June