Father / Daughter power hour!

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WOD

Burpee Cycling [On the 0:00]

For Time:
50 Burpee Box Jump Overs (24″/20″)

“Pull It Together” [On the 7:00]

AMRAP 13:
600/500 Meter Row
9 Deadlifts (275/185)
12 Single Dumbbell Burpee Box Step-Overs (24″/20″)

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DAILY MINDSET

“Trade your expectation for appreciation, and the world changes around you”

~Tony Robbins

Routines and habits become part of the norm. Morning coffee, listening to the radio, the drive to the field taking the kids to practice. We appreciate healthy habits, and let’s continue to reinforce them. There is however much to be said about taking a pause to our routine, to appreciate the fortune in our lives. The absolute abundance we are so lucky to have.

In a world where comforts are the “norm”, we want to consciously remind ourselves how good our lives are.
The thought of losing those precious parts of our day is a sobering one. But despite it being a morbid thought, we will. There will be a final cup of morning coffee for us. There will be the last chance for us to listen to the radio. And if we are lucky enough to have kids, there will be a last time we get to wait in traffic as we drive them to soccer practice.

As Tony Robbins quotes, if we can remove expectations from the norm, and replace them with a sense of gratitude, our entire world changes.

Christy, Coop, and Heidi are working through their squats like champs!

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WOD

“Tricycle”

For Time:
Buy-In: 2,000/1,600 Meter Bike Erg

Directly Into…

27-21-15-9:
Kettlebell Swings (53/35)
Pull-ups
Thrusters (75/55)

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DAILY MINDSET

“You make a living with what you get. You make a life with what you give.”

~Winston Churchill

Think back to a time in your life when you came in clutch for someone. One where your actions made a significant impact on someone’s life. Maybe it was a time where you showed up for a friend in a time of need. But you didn’t just show up… you went above and beyond. Not because of some expected return or alterior motive, but because you believed it was the right thing to do. You genuinely cared.

Think back to that day, and how that made you feel when you saw your impact. Think back to how it felt to know you made a difference. It felt good, didn’t it. Really, damn, good.

Science has shown us that one of the most powerful emotions we can feel, via serotonin, is released in mass at these moments. But what is even more interesting, is that it’s literally contagious. Think back to the last time you saw someone else doing something generous. Maybe it was as simple as holding the door open at the store for an elderly customer. Think back to that… how did you feel, witnessing that? Did it make you feel, more generous?

If generosity is contagious, it just needs to be started.
Let it be us.
Be the change we want to see in this world.

Don’t forget to give your mobility a little attention this weekend!

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Happy Birthday Dr. D!

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Reminder: There will be Open Gym today from 8:00am to 10:00am. Come get your weekend WOD on!

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WOD

“Partition Participation Party”

For Time:
200 AbMat Sit-ups
100/75 Calorie Bike
50 Bench Press (135/95)

Partition However You’d Like

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DAILY MINDSET

“The Marshmallow Experiment”

The experiment conducted decades ago began by bringing in children into a room, one by one, sitting them down in a chair with a single marshmallow in front of them.

Here, the researcher offered a deal. He said he was going to leave the room, and if the child didn’t eat the marshmallow while he was away, then a second marshmallow would be rewarded. However, if the child chose to eat the marshmallow while he was away, they wouldn’t get a second. What he didn’t say was how long he’d be gone. The choice was simple – one treat now, or two treats later.

Some of the children ate it right away. Some squirmed around for a bit, and gave in after a couple of minutes. And some of the children managed to wait until the researcher came back.

The research team followed the participants for 40 years afterwards. The children who ate the marshmallow immediately… struggled in life. They didn’t have careers they were proud of, and they didn’t live lives they were happy with. The children who held out went on to live as highly successful individuals.

The ability to delay gratification is a critical component in life. Whether we want to go to the CrossFit Games, be the best spouse we can be, or propel our career forward, we must have the willpower to stay the course with the longer term in mind. Even when we’re tired, hungry, beat up, and starving for a bite of that marshmallow… we’re tough enough to hang on.

James is jumping in on the Peg Board challenge!

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Don’t forget to jump in on Heathers Zoom Yoga today at 9:15am!  Click here to join.

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WOD

“Closing Time”

On the 2:00 x 10 Rounds:
30 Double Unders
5 Power Snatches (115/85)
Max Meter Row With Time Remaining

*No Rest Between Rounds

*Score Is Total Meters

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DAILY MINDSET

“Adversity causes some to break. For others, it breaks records.”

Adversity can really, really hurt. Let’s not create an illusion that it’s all sunshine and rainbows. It will try our values, test our patience, and challenge who we are as human beings. It’s no warm cup of cocoa on a winter morning.

But a warm cup of cocoa doesn’t make us better. A picture perfect day doesn’t make us better. We learn when we make mistakes. When we miss, trip up, face plant, and get caught off guard. At our very basic biological level, this is how we adapt. It’s encoded in us… and it’s seriously like a secret sleeping super power.

That is, of course, if we them it our advantage. The nature of a mistake is not to tell us we suck. That we failed. That we’re not good enough. The nature of a mistake is to educate us. To give us the ammunition we need to become better. To take the challenge to earn greatness, out of something that once was not.

Adversity is not in the way to greatness.
Adversity is the way the way to greatness.
This is the championship mindset.

Estee is conquering her fears with 24″ Box Jumps!

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WOD

“Hurts So Good”

AMRAP 16:
30 Bar-Facing Burpees
30 Hang Squat Cleans (95/65)
30 Box Jump Overs (24″/20″)
30 Overhead Squats (95/65)
30 Toes to Bar
30 Thrusters (95/65)

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DAILY MINDSET

“If you aim at nothing, don’t worry… you’ll hit it.”

A clear and defined goal seems like an obvious first step. It is however often missed.

It’s not that we don’t have any general goals or directions in mind… it’s that we tend to lack crystal clear specificity. We lack the concrete intentions that we need when we hit the chaotic storm.

If we have to pause to think about what our goals are, we havn’t yet defined them to the extent we need to have them stick. They need to come to our lips in the blink of an eye, as if it’s a subconscious reaction.

Let it be specific, measurable, and actionable. “I need to get better with money”, turns into “I will have $40 each payment transferred to my retirement account.” “I want to get fitter”, turns into “I will eat 3 quality meals per day, 6 days per week, and go to the gym on Mon/Tue/Wed, Fri/Sat”. “I want to have better presentation skills”, turns into “I will take the improv class in my city every Monday for the next six weeks”.

Be intentional. Specificity is everything.

The 6:00pm class working through the Push Jerks of Tuesdays WOD!

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WOD

“Flapjack”

For Time:
1,000/800 Meter Row
50 Hand Release Push-ups
30 Deadlifts (225/155)
50 Hand Release Push-ups
1,000/800 Meter Row

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DAILY MINDSET

“Most of the time we feel tired not because we’ve done too much, but because we’ve done too little of what makes us come alive.”

~Jim Kwik

We’re not going to pretend the hard times go away. And that we won’t need to do things that we’d rather not. We have commitments, obligations, and bills to pay. But when we find ourselves in a daily loop of non-stop “work”… we won’t feel like ourselves.

But it’s not the time we put in at work that causes this. It’s the time we don’t put in on the other things. Our passions. The reason why we get out of bed in the morning. Yet in the furious pace of our lives, we let it fall to the wayside because we need to get “back to work.”

The times where we are the most unhappy, are the times where we are the most untrue to ourselves. Redefine to ourselves what sets us on fire. What makes us come alive. And literally schedule it on your calendar as if it’s a life-saving doctors appointment. Because in truth… it is.

 

 

The Box!

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WOD

“9 to 5”

AMRAP 5:
12/9 Calorie Bike
12 Chest to Bar Pull-ups
9 Front Squats (135/95)

Rest 5 Minutes

AMRAP 5:
9/6 Calorie Bike
9 Chest to Bar Pull-ups
6 Front Squats (155/105)

Rest 5 Minutes

AMRAP 5:
6/3 Calorie Bike
6 Chest to Bar Pull-ups
3 Front Squats (185/135)

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DAILY MINDSET

“The purpose of pain is to move us in action, not to make us suffer.”

~Tony Robbins

Pain gets a bad rap.
Not in our world.

Pain is a purely a temporary feeling… where suffering is a state of mind.

As Tony Robbins puts it, it’s purpose is to move us forward. It’s leverage. An advantage, and a very powerful one at that. Few things in the world can get a human being to move faster than pain. It’s our body and mind telling us to go.

Pain is mandatory.
Suffering is optional.

Madi is making sure to get set up before going for her max Power Snatch!

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WOD

Push Jerk

Build to Heavy Triple

“Eighth Wonder”

8 Rounds For Time:
8 Push Jerks (135/95)
8 Lateral Barbell Burpees 🙂

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DAILY MINDSET

“Don’t tell me who you are. Tell me what you are.”

When we are asked “who” we are, we default to our past. We define ourselves by our resumes. Although our past may give us insight of where we’ve been, it cannot be what defines us… for it’s the past.

When the question however asks “what” we are, we tend to give a different answer. We describe who we really are. It’s one of character, values and beliefs.

Will we be defined by who we’ve been in the past, or by what we stand for today? Let character be our loudest statement.

Leonor and Raegan are looking very chic in their PR shirts! 

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WOD

Back Squats

On the 2:30 x 5 Sets:
Set 1: 10 Back Squats
Set 2: 8 Back Squats
Set 3: 6 Back Squats
Set 4: 4 Back Squats
Set 5: 2 Back Squats

“Bootleg”

AMRAP 15:
21 Wallballs (20″/14″)
18 Single Dumbbell Alternating Power Snatches (50/35)
15 Toes to Bar
12 Box Jump Overs (24″/20″)

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DAILY MINDSET

“I want to see it, before I believe it.”

We are visually oriented people.
We seem to trust our eyes more than our other senses.

It’s why we call our ultimate direction our “vision”. It’s why in the middle of the night, if we think we hear something, we want to take a look before we feel safe enough to fall back asleep. We can hear news through the grapevine, but we doubt it until we see it.

Recognizing this, we can leverage it to our advantage. Many of us will agree that there is power to writing down our goals, and this is why. We begin to believe it that much more. It feels that much more real.

Write down our vision. Write down our goals. Write down anything that is important, not because it’s a mundane task… but because we need to see it, before we believe it.

Happy Valentines Day!

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Reminder: There will be Open Gym today from 8:00am to 10:00am. Come get your Valentines Day WOD on!

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 WOD

“Empty Nester”

4 Rounds [28 Minutes Total]:
[In a 4-Minute Window]
8 Rounds:
20 Seconds Barbell Movement (45/35)
10 Seconds Rest

[In a 3-Minute Window]
Pick 1:
400 Meter Run
500 Meter Row
1,000 Meter Bike

Round 1: Front Rack Reverse Lunges
Round 2: Strict Press
Round 3: Front Squats
Round 4: Bent Over Rows

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DAILY MINDSET

“We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.”

~Bill Watterson

There’s a common misunderstanding that if we allow ourselves to feel happy about something, we’ll lose our drive to improve. That in order to reach out goals, we need to hard-wire ourselves 24/7 with thoughts of how improve and develop. Ironically enough, full focus on the future is one of the most self-destructive things we can do to ourselves.

When we celebrate our victories, we feel good. On a biological level, there is a “dopamine” release. By feeling this emotion of accomplishment… we become hungry for more. We crave that next dopamine hit, moving even more aggressively towards that next accomplishment. On the other side, if we constantly deprive ourselves of that dopamine response… we will lose our drive. This is the definition of burnout.

Take a moment today to think about how far you’ve come since last year. And since you’ve started this amazing lifestyle called CrossFit. No leaderboard will ever tell us the full story. While we maintain our fiery state of mind to find the next best version of ourselves, let’s celebrate today.