Bench Press:
10-5-3-1-1-1-3-5-10

*Score = Total Load

5 Rounds
AMRAP 4:
30/21 Calorie Row
21 Kettlebell Swings (53/35)
Max Wall Walks

Rest 4 Minutes Between

* Score Is Total Reps for All 5 Rounds (1 Rep = 1 Wall Walk)

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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.

Build to Heavy Set of 3 Push Press

5 Rounds For Time:
12 Toes to Bar
150′ Farmers Carry (50’s/35’s)
21/15 Calorie Assault Bike

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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.

AMRAP 26:
900 meter Row
26 Single Dumbbell Alternating Power Snatches (50/35)
26 Burpees Over Dumbbell

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DAILY MINDSET

“Don’t look for the third thing.”

~Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius breaks down a good deed into two positive results:

You did good, and,

You helped another.

The first positive result is that you did good. Every good deed is a vote towards ourselves becoming better human beings. The second is that your actions helped another. Whether big or small, you’ve benefitted another human being today.

There is a “third thing” that one can seek, and it was Marcus strongly speaks against: credit.

When one contributes with a good deed, doing right by oneself, and doing right by another, is enough. The desire to receive praise for such an action is the pitfall he warns against. To go around expecting thanks is what he deems as greedy, which can trickle into other areas of life.

Part 1 [0:00 – 20:00]

3 Rounds For Time:
400 Meter Run
20 Chest to Bar Pull-Ups
10 Power Cleans (185/135)
*Completed Individually*

*Score = Time it takes to complete the workout

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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 ulterior 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.

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6 Rounds For Time:
1,000 Meter Bike
30 Second L-Sit
50′ Double Kettlebell Front Rack Walking Lunge (53’s/35’s)

*Score = Time it takes to complete the workout

[28 Minute Time Cap]

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DAILY MINDSET

“If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them.”

~Jim Kwik

Our harshest critic is in between our ears.

We’ve all been there… telling ourselves we suck. That we’re simply not good enough. Too old, too young, not good looking enough, not smart enough.

Each time we tell ourselves these things, we add one more vote to become them. The mind has this incredible power to bring into this world whatever we fixate on.

Yet what can be the harshest critic, can be the most powerful ally. Let’s leverage those thoughts to our best advantage.

AMRAP 8:
15 Deadlifts (135/95)
12 Box Jump Overs (24″/20″)
9 Push Jerks (135/95)

Rest 4 Minutes

AMRAP 8:
15 Deadlifts (115/85)
12 Box Jump Overs (24″/20″)
9 Push Jerks (115/85)

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DAILY MINDSET

“If failure is not an option, neither is success.”

We fear the one who is willing to lose it all. The one who is willing to play full out with no reserves. The one who swings for the fences.

That’s a dangerous person. Dangerous enough… to accomplish something great.

We all have a comfort zone. A status quo. It’s warm, cozy, and familiar. But it’s a box, with a ceiling and walls that we can see and touch. It’s a world that cannot grow further than what it’s already grown to.

If we want to grow, we have to climb out of that world into the unknown. To face that chance that we may fall flat on our face, because we’re walking in new ground. Yet, as much as a “swing and a miss” may sting a bit, there’s something far worse. Worse than any of that is the pain of knowing that we didn’t try.

Life is so short.
There’s no time to bunt.
Let’s swing for the fences.