8 Tips To Get The Body You Want
/Want to understand how to actually get the body you want? Here are 8 tips to get you there. Caution: 2 swear words are used at the end.
Read MoreThe Truth about Abs
/The common goal for people is to have the six pack. The six pack has become a standard that goes hand in hand with physical ability, fitness, health, the ability to attract other hot single people, and status. The six pack though needs to come with an understanding of several key points.
Read MoreSteps for a better Day
/My post today will be short and succinct as the day presents many wonderful opportunities to it.
1. Choose your attitude - it really is that simple. From someone who has done, seen, and thought many things that I would never recommend to someone else the simplest answer turned out to be true. You can pick your attitude and reinforce it by the language you use. In the opening paragraph I used the phrase wonderful opportunities instead of a lot of hectic shit. That difference changes how I feel and react to the day.
2. Be prepared - when you have things in order then you can't be stressed out. When people who are stressed out confront you then you can remain calm in the knowledge that you can help them without putting yourself out.
3. Sleep - emotional stress is the same as physical stress. It's toxic to your body if left too long unaddressed and negatively viewed. Stress prepares our body for action. ACT then sleep to restore your body's balance. Don't stay amped up for too long or you will look like Keith Richards
10 Tips for the CrossFitter
/A short list of the 10 things to keep in mind as a CrossFitter
Read MoreThoughts from Watching the CF Regionals
/For the past two weeks the super regions have been going on in order to figure out which athletes and teams will go to the CrossFit Games. This weekend will be the last three days of competition with the Meridian, the Central, and the West regions finishing up this Sunday. The competitors at these regions are the best of the best athletes but we should understand some basic things about what we are watching.
Read MoreWhat to Listen to
/The continued development of a positive mindset takes time and work. We all have individual goals and dreams which means finding those of like mind can prove difficult. If we are classically the "sum of the 5 people around us", how can we improve our surroundings? Podcasts.
Read MoreGoal Setting
/Set goals that yield a positive effect on your life whenever you think about them, long before the outcome is actually achieved. Treat goal setting as a way to enhance your present reality, not as a way to control the future.
Read MoreCoach Lao Tzu
/CrossFit Pagosa hired a coach many years back named Lao Tzu. He wasn't the best for lifting technique and tips but he had great insights on how to motivate each of us in our mental game. Coach Lao Tzu has two important concepts that he wanted me to emphasize: presence and actions.
Read MoreBuffet Time
/Berkshire Hathaway has a letter that it sends out to all its shareholders written by Warren Buffet. His 2014 letter was of special interest because he gave a recap of the past 50 years. He writes his lessons learned, his knowledge, his wisdom, and his predictions. We should all pay attention.
Read MoreLessons from Food
/The nutrition challenge has completed its 3 month journey and the results were inspiring (even I was watching what I eat more closely). As the next one starts I think it's good to recap what we all learned.
Read MoreYoda Speaks
/I will spare you all my Star Wars nerd knowledge and just focus on one thing that Yoda said to Luke Skywalker that, all pop culture nostalgia aside, is deep with wisdom: "Do or do not. There is no try." Heavy. Let's examine why.
Read MoreThe Greatest Teacher
/There is a common theme to all my articles - your mindset. The reason is that your mind is the greatest tool that you must be training every day. If you do not train it then it will run you instead of you running it. This is the first lesson it teaches.
Read MoreThe Impatiently Patient
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A farmer wakes up hungry one day in the late fall and goes out to his fields to get some food. There is no food in his fields. The soil hasn’t been tilled and his barn is full of seed. What is wrong with this picture? Why is it ridiculous for us to assume that a farmer that does not work in the spring should have a harvest in the fall? We can look at this in terms of IP vs PI.
Read MoreThe One You Feed
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You may like to think that you are you. That me, myself, and I are all one person and we are all in agreement. A basic understanding of human psychology will prove that to be otherwise and in fact there is an old Indian fable emphasising this point. The tale is about two wolves inside you that are polar opposites, battling inside you. It's the wolf that you feed that will win in the end. Which one are you feeding?
Read MoreThe Open Ego
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The first workout of the Open is validated and we just turned in our scores for the second workout of 2015. How are you feeling about it? Are you proud or are you reasoning the score away? Which path you take is telling of your mental state.
Read MoreHow to Approach Training
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How should you approach training and what variables come into play in its many aspects. From the motivation to train, to making sure your knowledge is up to date, to controlling internal factors over external - how should we look and move forward with our workouts?
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Why There Are Coaches
/This is a very common talk I will have at each Elements class about the reason why we have coaches at each class and just don’t open the gym up in the traditional style. If you have been a member for 1 day or 1 year the concepts below are vital for you to move properly and safely with even the most advanced movement. This is why you need a coach: 1. mechanics/consistency/intensity, 2. functional movement key points, and 3. scaling/modification.
Read MoreThe CrossFit Open
/The CrossFit Open is about to start and many of you have questions. I will try to answer as many as I can both with the background, where to register, why to register, what our new schedule at the gym will be, when the workouts will be released, where you can watch them, and a simple strategy.
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