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CrossFit Maximus Introduces Dr. Tim Rogers, BS, DC, CFT & “ChiroFit”

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Dr. Tim Rogers

Many of you may have noticed a new face around CrossFit Maximus.  About two weeks ago, Dr. Tim Rogers joined Crossfit Maximus following a long career in athletic training, rehab and injury prevention. A chiropractor, kinesiologist, chiropractic neurologist and nutritionist, Dr. Tim has been board certified in 5 states and nationally recognized as a speaker for the profession providing continuing education to chiropractors nationwide. Topics he has authored and spoken on include “The Chiropractic Treatment and Management of Headaches”, “Chiropractic Rehabilitation”, The Dynamic Analysis and Treatment of Movement Related Dysfunction” and “Neural Disregulation” which borrow from a lifetime of personal experience and study.

Dr. Tim began a career in chiropractic following successful elite level athletic pursuits in swimming and lacrosse. Having suffered debilitating injuries on the lacrosse field, he found chiropractic as a “last resort” when other methods of treatment failed. A long road of recovery spurred the idea that the best way to avoid injury is to train in a way to arm yourself against it. Following 14 years of studying and working in the profession, (me)² and F.L.E.X. were created. Both acronyms stand for systems of analysis and treatment for dysfunction that resorts in pain. “A body properly functioning is one without pain and vice versa”, says Dr. Tim. “Techniques that chase pain are outdated and limited and eventually predispose a patient to more injury.”

In addition to chiropractic, he has owned his own successful personal training studio, catering to athletes of every level. “It was the perfect respite from practice to learn a different language…in the end it was this experience that brought me to merging the training and chiropractic experiences,” says Rogers. “I had the privilege of working with several professional athletes who taught me the nuances of attaining peak performance: its one thing to be an athlete, another entirely different thing to train and preserve the interest of one especially with millions of dollars on the line.”

Upon a chance meeting, Matt Sharp and Dr. Tim knew that there was an instant connection.  “The answer for treating injury is preventing injury by creating a deep sense of strength and stability”, Dr. Tim says, “CrossFit training is ideal for living a life without worry of injuring yourself while living your life the way you want.” Matt Sharp admitted that a chiropractor who embraced intense training was a rare find and “one who used intense training for preventing injury is even more rare…we feel that Dr. Tim is a perfect fit with CrossFit.”

Dr. Tim Rogers is available for consultation via appointment: Contact Crossfit Maximus or stop in the new office for your (me)² evaluation…you won’t believe what you see…or feel!  Email Dr. Tim directly to set up an evaluation at DrTim@crossfitmaximus.com

ChiroFit List of Services:

  • Functional Chiropractic care
  • (me)² – Maximus Efficiency/Minimal Effort – Finding your power leaks through dynamic analysis of movement related dysfunction.
  • “Prehab”/Rehab Services
  • Adhesion Reduction
  • Run Training
  • Nutritional Evaluation/Detoxification

WOD – 9/9/11 – What About Vegetarians? – Robb Wolf

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- SKILL WORK -

KB Snatch

- WOD -

AMRAP in 15 min:

400m Run

10 Power Cleans

- CASH OUT -

Hold Handstand for max time, can use wall

 

What About Vegetarians?

Posted by  on Feb 24, 2009

Why is it that most Crossfit sites don’t think eating a Zone diet that is vegetarian is effective? Yet Dr. Sears says that incorporating more soy protein into your diet as part of a Zone diet can actually be more effective than meat sources of protein?

Good question, here’s the deal:

1-Failure to thrive. I have seen 2 crossfitting vegans who were able to pull it off and have what I’d consider top-tier performance. Most do not. This based on nearly 9 years of coaching people and working with what amounts to thousands of people now. So, can it be done, yes. Is it easy OR better than a mixed diet? Absolutely not.

2-Lack of variety. Christy, if you had not noticed, we talk a bunch about topics extending well beyond performance. There are people who happen onto this information who are VERY sick and who benefit immensely from the change to a paleo/zone diet. You will also notice that it is the EXCLUSION of things like soy that facilitate this shift. The two example I cited above, of the “successful” vegan crossfitters, they had “no” variety in their diets. This leads to food intollerances especially when the food is some kind of concentrated legume food like tofu.

3-Barry Sears is right on with some stuff, completely wrong with other stuff. He completely ignores post work out nutrition, fasting and host of other topics because it does not jibe with his over-arching scheme. He wrote the Soy Zone, sang the song of soy…then dropped it when issues like thyroid disregulation began come to light.

My take on this is try everything. CrossFit for a month and do it vegan. Do it for a month and do it paleo. Do it for a montha and follow the high carb, low fat ADA plan. See how you do.

What I’m putting forward may seem like dogma to some, and I guess perhaps it is, but it is dogma won from experience and experimentation. I’ve done vegan, i’ve done high carb-low fat….I DO paleo. What have YOU done?