Hope.

Isn’t it incredible to be alive?

Take a walk.  Unplug.  Breathe in fresh air.  Walk through a creek.  Hug someone you love.  Hug someone you don’t love.  Call someone you have been meaning to for a while.   Show your children you love them.   Be grateful for such things.  Be happy.  Choose to be happy.  It’s more fun than choosing to be frustrated.  You work all the time, you don’t feel good, you hate your job, you fight with your spouse, your kids can’t stand you, you look like shit, you feel like shit, you aren’t good in front of people,  you hate your boss, your boss hates you.  What are these things.  What are these thoughts that you give power to on a daily basis.  Why do you let them control you.  Your mind is a computer and either you, or your environment is the programmer.  Absent of you choosing to your mind will let whatever stimulus it comes up against program it.  How scary is that?   Just watch the news, or listen to your “friends” complain…and bam….down that endless road called negativity.  But should you choose to be brave and become the master of your own destiny.  Well then….the world is at your freaking fingertips.   Believe in you.  It’s hard, it’s uncomfortable, but guess what we weren’t put here to be comfortable.  We were put here to grow, to challenge ourselves, that’s how we are made up.  We are literally movers and shakers, to deny that is to deny the very make up of our body and souls.  Give me the crabbiest nastiest human being in the world,…i put them in my class and take them through a Robstacle course and you will see them smile.  Why is that…because your body and mind crave challenge, and they crave movement….  Isn’t it incredible to be alive and be human.  We are the most complex movers and thinkers on earth  (we think)  Why deny it…you can’t ….just let go and get on with life.  I am so grateful for the position I find myself in everyday.   Is it easy….  Heavens no.  It’s not even close to easy.     “Don’t pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a hard one”

I have the strength, and I have the muster, and I have the ability to think better, be better ,move better, and I practice it every single day.  And I am thankful every single day that I have been blessed with my parents, my wife and children, my mind, my body and my community…..and I will do my best to elevate those around me for the rest of my life…..

 

IS NOT  THIS LIFE WE LEAD TRULY INCREDIBLE!!!!

 

Go out and Be Amazing….stop being scared of yourselves…..

WOD 3/24/2015

Tuesday
“COE” 1/2
10 Thrusters 65/95
10 Ring Pushups
5 Rounds For Time

 

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Army Sgt. Keith Adam Coe, 30, of Auburndale, Fla., assigned to the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., died April 27th, 2010, in Khalis, Iraq, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with an explosive device. He is survived by his wife Katrina Coe, two sons, Killian and Keith Jr., and daughter, Klover.

 

It was an honor to WOD in Sgt. Coe’s name today.  My heart rests with the loved ones he has left behind.   The efforts put forth by the box today were inspiring and truly heart felt.

 

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WOD’s 3/22 and 3/23/2015

 

WOD   3/22/2015

12 Minute AMREP

3-Push Presses 3- Med ball Cleans/  6 PP- 3 MBC   /  9 PP and 3MBC/  12 PP- 6 MBC/  15 PP- 6 MBC /  18 PP-6 MBC/ 21 PP- 9 MBC….  etc until 12 min

Total number of Reps is your Score.

It was a great  little tribute to 15.4…..   nice movement on that Sunday!!!

 

WOD 3/23/2015
5 ROUNDS
36 Ft FHC
36 Ft Reverse FHC
(Slow MOtion, slower the better, Cannot stress the importance of going slow on the crawls but not stopping) This WOD should take you 25 plus minutes
7 Strict Pullups

 

Wonderful form, and taking your time with Monday’s…..the purposeful movement was fantastic, and it was evident that everyone is working very hard to become super competent at Foot Hand Crawls…that is not an easy thing to do.

3/19/2015

WOD

18 min of Movement
32 Feet- Foot hand Crawl on 2×4
16 Feet Farmer’s Carry on 2×4
and 10 Reverses with KB racked on 2×4

(5 reverses per side)

Continue through these three exercises until 18 minutes has passed

you can click the youtube link below to see an example of the movements….have fun if you try this one.  Slow purposeful and as always mind your movements!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM37K6DHtME&feature=youtu.be

3/15 and 3/16

WOD 3/15/2015

2 Rounds for Time
30 step ups
50 Mountain Climbers
30 Step Back Lunges
50 Mountain Climbers
3 Wall Walks
144ft FHC

 

 

 
3/16/2015

 

Warm up

Rollout 10min/ Skinny PVC 4 min/ Hip Flexor and Glute Activation 3 min/

Running Prep Drills-6 min

Kettlebell Swing Progressions-5min

 

WOD
10 Rounds For Time
10 KB Swings
200m Run

 

Sunday was a wicked WOD, I had the pleasure with wodding with the 9am class and to further proove that I’m not super human found a way to tweak my left psoas during the very first set of Mountain Climbers, and since the vast majority of the WOD (lunging, Crawling, Stepups, Mountain climbers) required the use of it saw a very difficult WOD for me.  Extremely Challenging.

Some awesome breakthroughs happened that Day and Coach Amy did an outstanding Job with Coach Dan there to assist her, their attention to detail, even with me and my suffering foot hand crawls, was spot on. Great Coaching.

 

 

Today Saw the first Running WOD of the season, and everyone did a fantastic Job.  Hip Hinging and with it Posterior chain activation is a life essential skill.  I pushed the point home quite a bit with 530 and 630 class, and I really hope that everyone took away from it how important the ability to contract your glutes and properly extend your hips is.   With that being said….I’m throwing another Benchmark at you on Wednesday, but don’t let that scare you away from tomorrow…it is an outstanding WOD!!!  See you in the box!!!!

WOD 3/13/2015… Friday The 13th!!!!

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Warm Up- 10 min Roll/ 2 min neck rotation, 2 min shoulder rotations/ Bird dogs- 2 min/ up dog down dog-3 min

Shoulder Prep- 2×8 Wall SLiders/ 2×8 Bi lateral External Rotations/

Skinny PVC- Pressing Prep -3 min

KB Swing Prep- 3 min

-hip extensions/ hip flexors/ hip hinges

 

WOD

 

12 Min

20 Kettlebell Swings (Russian)

5 Shoulder to overhead

 

Score is total number of weight moved over head in the some of all Rounds with your 5 Presses/ Push Presses/ or Push Jerks

-you can add or take away weight as needed

 

Best of Luck

WOD/ 3/9 and 3/10/2015

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2/9/2015

Warm up

Roll-10min/ Neck Rotations 2 min/ shoulder rotations- 2 min/ Lumbar Looseners- 2 min/  Walking Samson Stretches-2min/ Skinny PVC-3 min

Deadlift Movement Prep-  8-10 min

-PVC Deads

-Kettlebell Deads

-Hip Mobility

 

 

Deadlift

5.5.5.5.5

Well done on Monday.

 

2/10/2015

“When Chuck Norris Swings a Sword the Air Bleeds”

 

Warm UP-

Roll-10min/ PVC-3min/ UP dog, down dog, child’s pose (lat Stretch) 6-8min

2×4 Movement-  Reverses, Tripod Extensions

 

WOD

5 Rounds For Time

24ft- Foot Hand Crawls on 2×4

72ft- Farmer’s Carry

:45 seconds Lalanne Plank

50- Mountain Climbers

 

 

Fun Last Two Days.

Keep in Mind   This weekend!!!!! look to the calendar….for the events!!!!   Saturday Bring  Friend Day, and on Sunday Recovery Seminar with Chris Nentarz!!!!

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WOD 3/8/2015

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“Chuck Norris and Superman once had an arm wrestling match, the loser had to wear his underwear on the outside”

 

Warm up

10 Min Roll/ Child’s Pose, updog, down dog- 3 min

Walking Samson-2min/ Skinny PVC-3min/ neck Rotations and Shoulder Rotations- 3 min

Wrist Prep-2min

 

30 Jacks/ 10 Toe touches- 4x

Skill Work-  Full Squat Clean, PVC Pipe then SUper light Weight-  Just technique WOrk- 6-9min

 

WOD

6 Rounds   (will be timed, but the goal isn’t to go as fast as possible,   quality movement over time)

36ft- Inverted Crawl

45sec- Plank, alternating slow leg lifts

36 ft- inverted Crawl

10- Single leg Deadlift Toe Touches (5 per side, hinge and balance)

3o sec- Lalanne Planks  ( hold the plank, with arms as far in front of your head as possible,  Zero Extension..)

 

Good Luck and Happy SUnday!!!

3/7/2015 WOD

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Warm up

Roll 10min/ Childs pose, up/down dog, lat stretch focus-4 min/ Skinny PVC pipe- 3 min/ Lying Hip Extensions with, big PVC (KB Swing prep)

 

Active- 10 toe touches/ 10 Jacks    3x

WOD

TABATA

Kb Swings/ Deadlifts

Sprinting in Place

Handstand Holds

Hanging Knee Raises  (strict movements)

 

Fun 16 minutes today!!!

 

Themes to follow or reflect on for the week

-being present when you move is paramount to reps.  Pay attention to your body, and improve on movements every time.  i.e., make this air squat better than the last air squat.  The goal is to improve movement patterns, not just do more of them.