Ellen, Casey, and Coop are coming in hot from their 400 meter Sprints!

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WOD

PART 1: Deadlift

Build to a Heavy Set of 10

*Score = Heaviest Load

PART 2: “U-Turn”

For Time [25 Minute Cap]:
15-12-9-6:
Deadlifts (225/155)
Calorie Bike (24-18-12-9)

Directly Into…

6-9-12-15:
Toes to Bar
Calorie Bike (9-12-18-24)

*Score = Time it takes to complete the workout
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DAILY MINDSET

“Water the flowers, not the weeds.”

Imagine your vision being a water hose.
And wherever your attention goes, you water.
Because whatever we end up watering… grows.

Every day, we are going to spend our water (our thoughts)on something. And there is a finite amount that we get to spend. If we choose to spend it on the weeds, those thoughts will grow stronger. Purely for the visualization, imagine gossip, and where that takes us.

Check in with ourselves today.
Are we watering the flowers, or the weeds?

Gabe and Baylie are crushing their Rope Climbs!

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WOD

“Farmer’s Market”

For Time [40 minute cap]:
800 Meter Run
40 Burpees to a Target
100 Meter Farmers Carry
800 Meter Run
30 Strict Pull-Ups
100 Meter Farmers Carry
800 Meter Run
20 Burpee Pull-Ups
100 Meter Farmers Carry
800 Meter Run
10 Dumbbell Burpees
100 Meter Farmers Carry

Dumbbell = (50’s/35’s)

*Score = Time it takes to complete the workout [40 minute cap]
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DAILY MINDSET

“Hope and despair are both self-fulfilling prophecies.”

~Ernest Hemingway

If you are in the market for a blue Honda, all you see on the road are blue Hondas. It’s as if they are seemingly everywhere. In every intersection, passing us on the highway, and at the gas station.

Yet, they were there the whole time. We as humans have what’s called the “Reticular Activation System”, which helps us see more of what we’re actively thinking about.

It’s actually a survival mechanism. If we needed to look for food because we were about to starve, we prime our senses to find it. Or if danger was close by in the form of a man-eating predator, we’d prioritize our senses to be very aware of potential attackers. It’s an incredible level of focus that we don’t realize we’re using, where our subconscious and conscious work together.

We’ve witnessed the effects of where our focus goes. It’s an absolute weapon, and has the ability to bring whatever we’re focused on, into reality.

Today… are we focused on what might go wrong?
Or are we focused on what we need to do, to make it go right?

Laura is taking advantage of the sunshine as she works through her Rowing!

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WOD

PART 1: Strict Press

Build to a Heavy Set of 20 reps

*Score = Heaviest Load

PART 2: “Chipper Gone Bad”

AMRAP 18:
100 Wallballs (20/14)
80 Dumbbell Snatches (50/35)
60 Box Jumps (24”/20”)
40 Double Dumbbell Push Press (50’s/35’s)
Max Calorie Row

*Score = Total Reps Completed
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DAILY MINDSET

“Roses that are left unpruned can become a tangled mess of old and new canes, all competing for air and light.” 

~Elizabeth Roth

As the rose bush grows, it grows buds. It doesn’t grow like a tree, as its physical size is limited, but the buds keep on coming. To the point where if it grows too many, the bush can actually exhaust itself and die.
Ideas are like rose buds. They constantly need to be “pruned” or trimmed. If we don’t trim our ideas, just like the rose bush, we can overwhelm ourselves.

Growth ideas are natural and it’s completely normal (and a very good thing) to have an ample supply. But if we want to reach our full potential, it will require pruning, trimming, and a critical look at what ideas can stay… and what can go.

Carson is working through his Front Rack Box Step Ups! 

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WOD

“HANGING ON A MOMENT”

5 Rounds For Time:
60 Double Unders
9 Hang Power Cleans (155/105)
1-2-3-4-5 Rope Climbs

Rest 1 Minute After Each Round

Score = Time it takes to complete the workout

*Sub Rope Climbs with 3-6-9-12-15 Strict Pull-Ups
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DAILY MINDSET

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible to your approach.”

~Tony Robbins

Is it a change of plan, or a change of vision?

We’re a committed, hungry group. We don’t shy away from discipline… we actually embrace it. And that dedication often shows itself when we set goals. We hard-charge them.

Yet along the way, we will have detours. Sometimes they will be by choice – and sometimes by chance. Regardless, we need the step back to assess what we are feeling. We can beat ourselves up for losing the “original plan”, or we can embrace the new path ahead, well knowing the detour signs are ultimately leading us to where we seek.

Committed to the destination, while flexible on the route.

Nick is showing he’s still got his Muscle-Ups!

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WOD

PART 1: Back Squat

Build to a Heavy Set of 3 Reps

*Score = Heaviest Load

PART 2: “Cement Legs”

On the 3:00 x 7 Rounds:
400 Meter Run
8 Front Rack Box Step-Ups

Box: (24″/20″)
Barbell: (95/65)

*Score = Slowest Round
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DAILY MINDSET

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”

~George Lorimer

“Win the morning, win the day” is something we’ve all heard a couple times.

It’s less, however, about winning the morning, and more about establishing the right habits. The most successful in life routinely draw back to a core staple of set daily habits.

Write a short list of healthy habits you believe push you forward. It could be reading, journaling, “no phone hours”, or anything in between. Where consistency is king, discipline is freedom.

Have you gotten your weekend Mobility in yet?!

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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

“Sweaty Sunday”

[RUN-ROW-BIKE]
20 Rounds For Meters:
1 Minute On
30 Seconds Off
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DAILY MINDSET

“I would rather die of passion than boredom.”

~Vincent Van Gogh

There are times in our lives, whether it be during training, at work, or at home, where we question the choices we’ve made. They tend to arrive shortly after we make an important decision. A form of “buyers remorse”, where we wonder if we’re on the right path.

It is a human condition to seek certainty. We simply want to know we’re clearly on the right path.

But… do we really?
Think back to a moment of uncertainty. The first day we first talked to our significant other. The first time we went on a roller coaster ride. The first time we walked into a CrossFit gym.

Uncertainty makes us feel alive. Those moments are etched into our lives, and are some of our fondest memories. If everything was known, expected, and pre-determined… life would be so horribly boring. It wouldn’t be a life at all.

Where others may run from uncertainty, let’s embrace it for what it is, and create the life of memories we’ll look back on.

MK is leading the group through their Rowing!

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WOD

“Freedom Sauce”

AMRAP 3:
21 Overhead Squats (95/65)
21 Lateral Burpees Over Erg
Max Calorie Row

Rest 3 Minutes

AMRAP 3:
18 Overhead Squats (115/85)
18 Lateral Burpees Over Erg
Max Calorie Row

Rest 3 Minutes

AMRAP 3:
15 Overhead Squats (135/95)
15 Lateral Burpees Over Erg
Max Calorie Row

Rest 3 Minutes

AMRAP 3:
12 Overhead Squats (155/105)
12 Lateral Burpees Over Erg
Max Calorie Row

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DAILY MINDSET

“What you resist, persists”.

What would you think about if I told you to not to think of a pink giraffe?

The same effect takes place if I tell you “don’t slow down” as you start your final 400 meter run in a workout. Our minds don’t operate well when we focus on what not to do. We need to flip the script, and focus on what to do.

Turn “don’t slow down” into “I can hold this pace”.
Turn “don’t mess this up” into “focus on a clean jump shot”.

If our thoughts become words, and those words become actions, we’re going to get what we focus on. So let’s choose wisely.

James is showing off his hops!

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WOD

“PARTI TIME”

For Time [30 Minute Cap]:
300 Double-Unders
2 Mile Run
100 Toes to Bar

Partition However You’d Like

*Score = Total time. If you get time capped, enter 1 second for every missed rep. Every 100m of running will equal 1 rep.
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DAILY MINDSET

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”

~Reba McEntire

Three themes to take into our day.

To have a “wishbone”: Nothing is too great of a task. Nothing is out of reach. Faith (or doubt) are both self-fulling prophecies.

To have a “backbone”: The unbreakable will to give our best, regardless of the circumstances. Through the lens of the growth-mindset, every outcome is an opportunity to become better.

To have a “funny bone”: We do life for one reason: to enjoy it. If we aren’t enjoying what we’re doing, we need to find something else. As Oscar Wilde writes, “Life is too short to take things seriously.” Let’s enjoy the ride.

The 6am bringing it!

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WOD

PART 1: Deadlift

Build to a Heavy Set of 15

*Score = Heaviest Load

PART 2: “Popeye”

For Time:
200 Meter Farmers Carry
60/40 Calorie Bike
20 Dumbbell Box Step Overs
60/40 Calorie Bike
20 Dumbbell Box Step Overs
60/40 Calorie Bike
200 Meter Farmers Carry

Dumbbells: (50’s/35’s)
Box: (24″/20″)

*Score = Time it takes to complete the workout
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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.

James is crushing the Rope Climbs from last week, while the rest of the group work through the Bike!

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Happy Birthday Lauri!

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WOD

“Me, Myself & I”

5 Rounds For Time [40 Minute Cap]:
50 Air Squats
400 Meter Run
30 Sit-Ups
20 Push-Ups
10 Strict Pull-Ups

*Score = Time it takes to complete the workout
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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 use them to 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 of greatness.
Adversity is the way to greatness.
This is the championship mindset.