Day and Night
Posted: October 25, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: Canada, crossfit, culture, exercise, faith, fitness, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, jogging, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, mental health, motivation, NHL, paleo, pilates, recovery, rest, running, Style, trail running, voting, Walk, walking, whole foods, WOD, writing, yoga 7 CommentsGet out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more-
Sadly, we have resorted to drastic measures peeps. Normally we like to keep it light and fluffy on Thursdays, always have and always will, maybe?!? The proverbial line in the sand has been drawn, until the NHL starts playing again? We will be showing cheeky Canadian videos on Thursday mornings … Sorry.
**Be forewarned! It’s all downhill from here, Strange Brew and Degrassi Junior High vid’s are on tap for next week.**
The Plan-
The Workout-
Rest Day … A brisk Walk and some Leg Drains. Simple.
Who knows? Maybe you and your ironic self-will make it on Style Blaster. <—To be cool before it’s cool? Click Me!!!
Notes:
It certainty has been a strange week so far and “Thank You” to each and every one of you taking the time out of your busy lives to read today. Take care and ENJOY!!!
You Don’t Make Me Sorry
Posted: October 24, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, blogs, crossfit, exercise, fitness, freshly pressed, happiness, health, hipster, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, paleo, perspective, pilates, running, trail running, Walk, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 7 Comments… If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.
Bettie Eadie
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: Gucci On Wheels
**Warning science content ahead!?!**
Place a ball on the desk in front of you and let it sit there, roll back in your chair and watch for a few moments. Nothing happened, shocking we know!
Now reach in the centre drawer and pull out some sticky notes and a pen. Write one of the following words/thoughts on the top half of each note:
Life, Yoga, Love, Work, Running, Lifting, Diet, Meditation, Pilates, Sex, Donuts … You get the point. Fold them in half and place them randomly on your desk in front of you.
Each one of us has our own unique habits, just like the ball will keep sitting there unless new outside influences act upon it.
Now gently tap the ball towards one of your notes, any which one.
The Plan-
The Workout-
Form, Flow and Grace … Find balance and harmony in a refreshing Sun Salutation Series. Followed by:
A Plank Medley consisting of the following: High Plank, Low Plank, Glute Bridge, One Arm Side Plank (each side), Forearm Plank, Side Plank (elbow bridge).
**All Planks will start with a Hinge Walk Out. This is vitally important peeps, think about it?!? When was the last time you bent over backwards? Hinged backwards? Oh, the last time you raised your hips from the floor into a Plank position. Your precious little back and hips will thank you later … **
Notes:
The goal of our exercise above is to come as close to our note without knocking it over, to gently ease up to it. Kinda like starting a new exercise program … Ease into it, slowly and with conviction. Be well today and ENJOY!!!
Thinking About Today
Posted: October 23, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, exercise, fitness, happiness, health, hipster, intensity, jogging, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, paleo, pilates, running, tabata, trail running, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 19 Comments… Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought,expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
You might as well turn away now while there is still a chance to escape. We are going to be talking about mindfulness once again, for like the billionth time …
One could think that mindfulness begins with opening your mind and opening your heart, consciously choosing to be completely present with whatever arises in our daily lives. Being mindful is at direct odds with the blind reactivity we immerse ourselves in.
Follow along if you will …
Mindfulness is not just about being open to experiences, not just about seeing what is happening, as it is happening around us. Being mindful is choosing to be fully present with our experience: Running, Cycling, Lifting, Making a Sandwich or even better, the world around us.
How many times have you heard the following: “I want to be a better runner.” “I want to be a better Cyclist.” “I want to be a LvL 5 Yoga Guru!?!” “I want to be better at this meditation trend that everyone is jumping on …“
The following series of thoughts folks is how we delineate the difference between Being and Becoming mindful. When we are mindful, we enter into a relationship with the object of mindfulness. This can be characterized by being in a state of inner calm (quieting the voices in our heads), being non-reactive to the outside world, where there is plenty of temptations to receive and to respond. The state of becoming on the other hand is a characteristic of a reactive mind, the conflicted mind that is never able to be fully present with what is happening around us. When you start a new running program or anything else for that matter … Are you Being or are you Becoming? A becoming mindset is forever moving away from the here and now, towards something else, something different.
The Plan-
The Workout-
Continuing from yesterday …
5 Cartwheels (alternating sides)
10 Perfect Push Ups
Keep moving for 30 minutes, plain and simple.
Notes:
How many fitness programs have you started then stopped this year? Took up running for a few weeks and quickly gave it up for X-Fit and Cardio Barre Burn. A rather deep message this evening … ENJOY!!!
Get Out Of My Life
Posted: October 22, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: art, blogging, Cats, crossfit, exercise, fitness, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, intensity, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, paleo, perspective, pilates, running, star wars, trail running, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 12 CommentsOver the years, injury after injury. One hardship after another … Healing and building strength slowly yet again We learn something rather important about ourselves: What others think about you doesn’t matter.
Take a moment today to ask one of your friends who has ever obsessed over wanting to lose just ten more pesky pounds. You could also ask them about the time they were trying to lose that little bit of extra “stuff” around their waist. When loosing just ten more pounds is all that we focus on … Those pounds and extra “stuff” become larger and more profound daily until they fill every nook and cranny in our minds. We do this over and over again until we are convinced that it’s all anyone else can see when they look our way.
“HEY, You look rather stunning today!“ Oh God he thinks I’m an over weight troll, he thinks I’m FAT!?!
There are reoccurring themes and strong undercurrents around these parts, messages that are told and re-told quite often. One of which is making an honest (<—Key Word) effort to stay positive and making healthy choices daily. The way you present yourself deep inside has a ripple effect on those around you …
“Good morning dear, Are those new jeans? You really look great in them!“
Be happy with yourself (take that anyway you like)!
The Plan-
We will be featuring some pretty sweet art by Mike Stimpson all week. Check his work out, it’s awesome!
The Workout-
Limber up and please remove your tired old shoes, you won’t need them today.
1 One-legged Squat, Right Foot
1 One-legged Squat, Left Foot
1 Perfect Pull Up
Set aside 30 minutes of your precious time and start rolling through this series, this is not AMRAP in 30 minutes peeps! By the time you get to your tenth set you should find yourself moving through this program effortlessly …
Notes:
Have a great one today peeps … ENJOY!!!
An Eye for An Eye
Posted: October 20, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: hippie porn, life, love, passion, Yoda, you rock 8 CommentsIt is the power of the mind to be unconquerable-
You should be an island to yourself, a refuge to yourself, not dependent on any other but taking refuge in the truth and none other than the truth. And how do you become an island and a refuge to yourself? In this way. You see and contemplate your body as composed of all the forces of the universe. Ardently and mind fully you steer your body-self by restraining your discontent with the world about you. In the same way, observe and contemplate your feelings and use that same ardent restraint and self-possession against enslavement by greed or desire. By seeing attachment to your body and feelings as blocking the truth, you dwell in self-possession and ardent liberation from those ties. This is how you live as an island to yourself and a refuge to yourself. Whoever dwells in this contemplation, islanded by the truth and taking refuge in the truth–that one will come out of the darkness and into the light.
The Digha Nikaya
Without you Dear Reader? CultFit would have shut up shop eons ago!!! Hope you are enjoying your weekend wherever you are!
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