An article a day for your holiday fitness reading

Happy Holidays, everybody!  Don't worry about not having a gym during your travels.  Think of it as a training "deload" to rest, restore, and try something different.  There is plenty you can do on the road without barbells to maintain your fitness.  And for those of you who are runners, there are dozens of running-specific Crossfit-style workouts posted here.  Or, mix and match any of these 50 bodyweight exercises you can do anywhere to create your own metcon.

Meanwhile, here's some reading for motivation over the next 3 weeks:

• Give yourself a gift with these cool interval training apps
• Paleo Diet Infographic
• Strength is a big deal; training mistakes that prevent people from making strength progress
• Put pushups at the top of your list for the new year
• Some great gifts for health nuts  (I covet that toothbrush sanitizer!)
• Speaking of nuts, eat some walnuts today!  (I like to sprinkle walnuts and cinnamon on my plain yogurt.)
• Lift like a girl and look awesome.

• The benefits of vitamin D:  lose fat, gain muscle, improve performance
• Live longer by strength training (rather than intense endurance exercise)
• Alcohol and fitness don't mix, but here's how to speed detoxification after one too many.
• Could eating carbs at night make you lean?
• Work on your wrist and ankle mobility for improved lifts
• Bench-press crimes
• The benefits of ginger for athletes = relief for sore muscles

• Exercise helps protect against cancer
• Fixing common workout mistakes
• Athletes have better cognitive strategies for coping with pain (duh, we already know this!)
• 5 tips for bigger deadlifts 
• Do short Crossfit workouts really work?  (I love the picture at the bottom.)
• 10 keys to healthy aging (excellent information!)
• What is Crossfit's obsession with full range of motion? (one blogger's answer)