Build to A Heavy 3 Front Squat
[15 Minute Window]

*Score = Heaviest Load

For Time:
100/80 Calorie Row
50 Dumbbell Hang Power Snatches (50/35)
30 Dumbbell-Facing Burpees 🙂

Directly Into..

150ft Single Dumbbell Overhead Walking Lunges (50/35)
*Completed in 6x25ft Increments

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DAILY MINDSET

“What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.”

~Dwight Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower lived one of the most productive lives you can imagine. It comes with no surprise that his methods for time management have been studied by many.

He creates for us a divide between two categories – urgent tasks, and important tasks.
Urgent tasks are things that you feel like you need to react to. Emails, phone calls, texts, “the news”. Meanwhile, important tasks are things that contribute to our long-term goals.

Said another way, urgent things often distract us from important things. They attempt to pull the veil over our eyes and seem like the things we should be doing right now.

If we can cut the fluff – the wasted minutes – and apply those towards what actually moves us forward… we’re in for a great ride. The opposite is also true. If we get caught up in only the urgent tasks, we can go through a whole day, busy-as-ever, and feel like we got absolutely nothing accomplished.

Let’s take note of what we do today with a critical eye. And let’s cut the fluff.

5 Rounds on the 5:00:
800 Meter Bike
8 Barbell Bench Press
12 Strict Ring Dips

*Build in weight each round

*Score = Heaviest Barbell Weight

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DAILY MINDSET

“If you want to be truly successful at it, you cannot be content with pretty good.”

~Tim Grover

“Pretty good” is decent.
“Pretty good” is average.
“Pretty good” checks the box.
“Pretty good”… is the enemy of excellent.

How we do anything is how we do everything… and there is nothing in life that is worth doing half-assed.

Reflecting back on this week, let’s be critical with ourselves. What actions have been “pretty good”? It’s rare for situations to happen just once. We can almost guarantee they are coming around for a second go, and sooner than we think. Let’s take those “pretty goods”… and make them great.

5×3 Heavy Thruster

*Athletes should choose a weight heavier than their “FRANCINE” weight

*Score = Lightest Barbell Weight

[Teams Of 2]
AMRAP 20:
Max Meter Row

Switch After Completing:
20 Box Jumps (24″/20″)
200ft Farmers Carry (50’s/35’s)

*Score = Total Meters (Partner 1 Meters + Partner 2 Meters)

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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?

AMRAP 6:
Max Rounds of “DT” (115/85)

1 Round of “DT”:
12 Deadlifts
9 Hang Power Cleans
6 Push Jerks
* 1 Round of “DT” = 27 Reps

Rest 6 Minutes

AMRAP 6:
Max Rounds of “Cindy”

1 Round of “Cindy”:
5 Pull-Ups
10 Push-Ups
15 Air Squats
*1 Round of “Cindy” = 30 Reps

Rest 6 Minutes:

AMRAP 6:
Max Calorie Assault Bike

*Score = Sum Total Reps For 3 Sets

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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 it’s 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 the pruning, trimming, and critical look on what ideas can stay… and what can go.

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

“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.

5 sets on the 2:00:
5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1
Power Snatch

AMRAP20:
100 Meter Bike
15 Double Dumbbell Floor Press (35/20)
12 Double Dumbbell Alternating Plank Rows (35/20)
9 Double Dumbbell Burpee Deadlifts (35/20)

*Score = Rounds + Reps

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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.