WODs & Well-Being

April 25, 2012 WARMUP: Jog 200m 3 Rounds - 10 Spidermans - 10 Pushups - 10 Back Extensions Group: 9 Fundamental Review WOD: Turbo Charge 15 Min AMRAP - 10 Deadlifts (155lbs) - 15 T2B - 20 Burpees (3 + 25 Rx)  SKILL/STRENGTH OH Press 5-5-5+ 45, 45, 65, 75, 75 .

April 24, 2012  It may not look like it while I am working my butt off sweating from every spot possible to sweat from on my body... but I love every minute of every WOD... It may not look like it when I am laying on the ground trying to catch my breath after however many minutes of work I just performed... but I cant wait to do it again when it is over... It may not look like it when I drop a bar filled with 5 lbs over my 1RM because I havent been able to complete the rep yet... but I have FUN every single workout... The only way to continue to do what I do daily and get out of bed and push through every workout is because I enjoy what I am doing. I am having fun while I am doing it and I love the people that I do it with. No only do I we have FUN while we WOD, but we have great relationships within the gym. We laugh together, we chat, we hang out and we really enjoy each others company. Its really fantastic to have such a great support system and that fac...

April 23, 2012 Stress is a huge part of most peoples lives. Stress comes in many forms and can be totally self inflicted or set off by things that are out of our control. Like most things (I feel like I say it a lot at least) it is how we handle the stress, how we deal with it that determines the severity of the problem. Personally the way I like to deal with my stress is with the gym (shocker I know). In all honesty when I am there nothing else matters. Its me, the weight or the clock and my mind. I am not focused on marriage, work, friends, family... I am focused on what I am doing and how I can get better at it. Its a place that I can es cape from the everyday stresses in life and there is nothing like it for me. When I have a bad day I look forward to the gym, when I am going to have a stressful day at work I look forward to the gym, when things are going not so good at home, I have a fight with a friend or the whole world seems to be falling apart around me… I look forwar...

April 22, 2012 Because I had to spend the whole day at the office this is all I got...

April 21, 2012 Today was my kind of workout. Still loving Saturday mornings at the box, and its so nice that even since the opens have wrapped up there are quite a few people still going. I am back to doing the WOD that I missed on Thursdays since thats my skill session day, on Saturday mornings. Whats nice about that (and different from my weekly routine) is that there are already times and weights on the board from my fellow CFWers. On any given day I am there at 5:30am, therefor we are the first times/weights to get listed. Not that I am "competing" with those who are on the board... or should really focus on that number as long as I am giving it my all... but its nice to have a goal to shoot for and see what others who share my same skill set can do. I honestly debated a skill session after knowing what I saw on Thursday night. I watched a few people complete it while I was skilling... and saw others comments about it on the website. It was going to be a tough one...

April 20, 2012 Open auditions starting today!!  Seriously, if there is one thing I have learned in my life, being myself and staying true to being the person I want to be is by far the most important lesson I have learned. It didn’t come overnight and I didn’t “learn” it from one particular instance. My parents didn’t “teach” it to me, I didn’t read about it… It is all the moments in my life so far rolled up into one tight package. As a child I wasn’t “popular” I had a rough go for a lot of years in school with getting made fun of and even having people throw shit at me (kids can be so crule). I spent years in the nurses office trying to get her to call my mom so that I didn’t have to go back to class. Lots and lots of broken thermometers in the nurses office faking a fever… but she was on to me of course. I couldn’t understand (and still don’t) how I, who didn’t do “anything” do anyone could be treated that way just for being me. I tried hard to get involved, t...

April 19, 2012 Clearly I see a lot of saying and graphics on FB that are motivational both relating to CrossFit as well as life in general. I saw this one and it made me stop and think for a good couple of minutes. Now my first reaction was YES... this is so true. I need to learn to loosen up "relax" and let things roll off my back. If I dont care what happens than I cant be disappointed. But the more I think about it… I am so very happy that I DON’T think with that mentality. How sad to think that if you give up on something it will just go away or that if you don’t care how your actions affect someone, or yourself for that matter that you will be a happier person. That’s not true at all! Seems like it would be an awfully lonely and unrewarding way of life. What makes life so great is the look on someone’s face when you do something that makes their day/week/life… the feeling you have when someone tells you that they love you… the satisfaction you get when you accomp...