2010 Crossfit Games

FROM LITTLE THINGS BIG THINGS GROW

To quote the the Paul Kelly song by the same name your athletic development is an ongoing but slow process.  If you are looking at getting huge gains fast, you are waisting your time.  It doesn’t exist.  If you want lasting results be prepared to work at it a while.  Be patient.  

With this in mind it was great to see Jill completing 20″ box jumps today.  This was the same girl who couldn’t jump into the air to save herself a few months ago.  The same can be said about Lea, who last week actually completing 12″ box jumps for the first time, make no doubt she too will be completing 20″ boxes and beyond this year if she continues her steady rate of improvement.  

These are not just isolated examples.  I see massive improvement in everyone from more supple shoulder & hips joints, to stronger mid line and core stability, less fatigue and aches/pains not to forget a huge work capacity and strength gains.  Make no mistake you guys can now start calling yourselves ‘athletes’, you are certainly training like them.

Physical development aside the best improvement I have seen in everyone is with your mental approach.  The attitude to get on with it without fuss, not asking for too much help and completing the job at hand.  That’s what inspires me.   As we know results aren’t just about weight loss, it is developing the capacity to function better as a human with what ever life throws at you each day and being able to take it in your stride, work it out and move on.  Keep up the great work everyone…..

TRAINING WILL BE ON THIS SUNDAY MORNING AT 8AM

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It not only takes tremendous hip strength, balance, coordination etc…but also courage to jump 20 inches in the air and land on a small platform, and not just once but again and again and again.

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Fitness in 100 words
“Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, c&j, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports. ”

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