January 2012
“Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve...”
– Rick Pitino (via tribander)
“The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.”
– Denis Waitley (via turbogirl)
turbogirl:
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work But from the afterglow of satisfaction That comes after the achievement of A difficult task that demanded our best.”
“What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via turbogirl)
“Everybody gets insecure. Nobody is perfect. So you have two options. You can sit...”
– Timothy DeLaGhetto (via turbogirl)
A new region
“A traveler I am, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.”
— Khalil Gibran
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do...”
– Pablo Picasso (via turbogirl)
Love like that
“The sun never says to the earth,
‘You owe me.’
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights up the whole sky.”
- Hafiz
your doctor
“Your doctor is a lifeguard, not a swim coach.”
Greg Glassman
look like a winner
“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.”
— Diane Arbus
win it
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
reckless aspirations
“The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.”
- Vauvenargues
Goals
“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”
- Jim Rohn
one prayer
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
- Voltaire
dream big dreams
“When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.”
- Brian Tracy
Lose more now. Win more later.
“When you lose, you’re more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.”
— Venus Williams
Inner peace
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
Robert J Sawyer
Word of the day
WODBONER
noun. The inappropriate sexual arousal due to the expectation of or the actual doing of a workout of the day.
“Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you’re not...”
– Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathoner (via turbogirl)
Never too late
“For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, start whenever you want, you can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that stop you. I hope you feel things that you never felt before. I hope you meet people...
How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body →
“They look at me like I’m crazy,” he goes on to say. “And I know if they continue, they won’t be able to take it.” I asked him about the worst injuries he’d seen. He spoke of well-known yoga teachers doing such basic poses as downward-facing dog, in which the body forms an inverted V, so strenuously that they tore Achilles tendons. “It’s ego,” he said. “The whole point of yoga is to get rid...
Having Words With Lisbeth: 5 Things You Should Do... →
lisbethdarsh:
1.) Squat. It’s the rare person who actually squats too much. Most folks squat too little.
2.) Start reading the words of Josh Bunch over at Practice CrossFit. Your life will be better for them. Stop reading the words of complainers and fools: they only make your life worse.
3.) …
falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.
The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. →
“In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
Today's WOD: AMRAP Jump the shark! →
One interesting twist will be to see what the combination of CrossFit and The Biggest Loser provides.
perspicuity
”Genius in great coaching is not in great cueing; its in perspicuity. The best of coaches respond violently to subtleties in mechanics that the rest of us are fairly oblivious to…. You can’t watch closely enough”
- Coach Glassman
Watch a video of Coach discussing Perspicuity.
The reason for the long gap between workouts is because I hurt myself last week. I think I pulled something during the Christmas WOD and then reinjured it swinging the 88lb kettlebell. It felt like I dislocated a rib. Dr. Mike gave me a couple of cracks and I rested for a few days and it seems to feel okay now. There were some really fun workouts that went by that I want to make up.
Here we go again
2 meals into the 2012 paleo challenge and I forgot to take pictures of them. I will be updating on Fit ID once I figure out how to use it.
Practice makes permanent
“Practice makes permanent.”
-Tommy Kono
Get Anabolic with Sprint Interval and Strength... →
The (Many) Negatives of Aerobic Training →
ring in the new
“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
December 2011
5 rounds for time of:
15 Kettlebell Swings, 40kg
15 Pull-ups
14:01
Awful. Everything broken into 8 & 7.
it's a choice
You never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it’s not a mistake, it’s a choice.
