Thursday 29 March 2012
Posted: March 29, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: biking, exercise, fitness, gym, health, life, meditation, running, swimming, walking, weight loss, workout, yoga 13 CommentsSweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head-
What better way to celebrate this bright sunny morning after a grueling program yesterday? Why with a Rest Day of course served up nicely this morning with a dash of “Best Caption to the Picture Wins Something”:
The Plan-
The Workout-
Rest Day…Quite Meditation always does the body good, so we have been told?!?
Notes:
Take the time today to step back, take a deep cleansing breath and relax. Most importantly be safe today and ENJOY!!!
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Posted: March 28, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: biking, crosfit, exercise, fitness, health, life, marathon, meditation, motivation, perspective, pilates, running, trail running, walking, WOD, yoga 20 CommentsWhere beams of imagination play, The memory’s soft figures melt away-
Today’s sign of the Apocalypse: Broga Yeah you read that right and trust us: It is what you are thinking it is…Now as much as we poke light-hearted fun at all the yoga/soccer moms sitting in their shiny black suv’s today. Of course they are wearing their “toe” concealing Lululemon pants…Silly question! It’s only fair that we throw the dudes under the bus as well. Just the other day outside a local co-op we overheard the many “benefits” that Broga has for the male species. The only item we would like to add: Dudes, if you are going to do this do it right…Speedos just like the Spanish fellows were wearing in Majorca last summer!
Moving on…What better way to follow-up the pop quiz from yesterday…Oh, a test! It won’t hurt we promise…CLICKY HERE when you have a free moment sometime this morning. We understand life is busy right now. Really, there are so many choices of organic baby carrots to choose from at the market today. “Who has the time to worry about “my body”? Certainly not me!?!” Take solace in the fact that these posts do in one way or another flow together. Just like the concomitant injuries you keep tossing around from day-to-day. Chances are tripping on a twig during your morning trail run closely correlates with the fact you left the toilet seat up last night and the old lady proceeded to put a beat down on you (rather a brisk beat down to boot)!
Simply: Take the time to listen, daily: Every waking minute of the day. Who knows one of these days you may break in two only to try to explain to the doc how it’s your wife’s fault!?!
The Plan-
This concludes our diet chat for the year. Thanks for reading…Watching!
The Workout-
Pulled from our “300th post and no we are not going to lament over it” series here at CultFit HQ.
Warm Up into a thick hardy lather…Followed by our signature and hardest program (new peeps, give it a go and prepare to be humbled quick. Like Grandma quick!!!)
45-60 Second Hand Stand Hold followed by:
35 Perfect Push Ups
45-60 Second Hand Stand Hold
30 Perfect Push Ups
45-60 Second Hand Stand Hold
25 Perfect Push Ups
45-60 Second Hand Stand Hold
20 Perfect Push Ups
45-60 Second Hand Stand Hold
15 Perfect Push Ups
45-60 Second Hand Stand Hold
10 Perfect Push Ups
45-60 Second Hand Stand Hold
5 Perfect Push Ups
Six to seven minutes or so in a hand-stand and 140 Perfect Push Ups…How hard can it be? Pretty darn hard especially if you don’t use a wall…
Notes:
Well this is what 300 hundred feels like…300 posts that is. Like life this has been a journey, albeit a splendid one due to one simple reason: You!!! *Fighting back crocodile tears* Throw out all the self glorifying stats that drive some here on the blog-o-sphere to do some pretty profound and lame things. When we get a comment or an email from a passionate peep who shares our simple message: “Listening to and respecting your body”? That’s all that matters to us here, honestly! Be well friends, yeah life sucks at times (not as much as the 8am class at YogaMed…JaJa pervs!!!) just keep in mind that “You alone are the best workout tool you will ever need“, ENJOY!!!
Friday 23 March 2012
Posted: March 23, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: biking, blogging, blogs, crossfit, death, exercise, family, fitness, friends, health, hiking, kinesiophobia, life, living, motivation, perspective, pilates, running, squat, swimming, weight loss, WOD, yoga 18 CommentsMany ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up–
Quick video to cheer you up this morning and to set the proverbial mood around here:
How do you follow-up a great video like the one above? We’ll with a pool side chat about kinesiophobia, that’s how you do it! Fire up the Google Machine and read up a bit on wiki-i-know-everything-for ten-minutes…Done?!?
Cool were not going to talk about that anyways as our Crack Webz Research Team has chimed in with the following information: “Why do I have to worry about the psychological factors that influence my injury rehab? Shit Son I just ignore all the damn pain anyways!” Just nod your head and keep reading on…(10 to 1 odds if you can find another blog-piece about kinesiophobia on the webz today!)
Its time to have a heart to heart: You are not an athlete, truly gifted in your specific sport. Our research shows that less than .10% of the population in the Milky Way fall into the “exceptionally good and get paid to do it” crowd. You are an excellent mother/daughter and excellent father/son- definitely! A weekend warrior? Someone who pursues albeit nobly, misguided athletic pursuits? Sadly yes. “What in the heck is going on here today?” Consider this: On this blog-o-thing here last week alone 10000+ peeps wasted 4.45 minutes of their lives trying pull a few tidbits of information to use to better themselves as an athlete for that particular weekend. Four people realized that there is more to life…Our lives are fleeting: You are born and you will die someday. The path between points A and B is so exciting and fulfilling, enjoy it.
Recoil in horror if you like and start beating the dog with a newspaper. If we take time to zoom way-way out on our lives the time we spend worrying about prone running and Spartan Warrior Dashes become trivial, minute to some…not to others. We like to think that if we zoomed out on your life we would see a big broad and pure smile from points A to B? Not a broken body, empty containers of coconut water and race bibs.
There is a reason for our mindless rambling on this fine crisp morning…Next week sometime we will have written our 300th post. What started as a small team of like-minded individuals sharing the simple pleasures of enjoying your family and being active has grown considerably over the past year. We have stated before there are a wide range of peeps around here who share personal stories and hard-earned wisdom from day to day…We are self-proclaimed masters in the fine art of Tautology. In one form or another this truism stands true: You are enough.
The Plan-
Top Tip: This is free and you’re welcome!?!
This wraps up our squatting coverage for the year! Thanks for reading.
The Workout-
Remember what we spoke briefly about on Monday? Good let’s get to work…
Trail Run/Swim/Hike/Bike/Walk…Not quickly but thoroughly Warm Up today.
Take 30 or so minutes to WORK UP to a one rep max Turkish Get Up (use your head here peeps – not as a place to drop the weight either!)
Trail Run/Swim/Hike/Bike/Walk…With Conviction and Purpose for however long you like.
Notes:
Thank you for reading and stopping by for a moment. The message presented today is vitally important to us here and hopefully you may be able to take something from it. Explaining to your 7-year-old Son that you can’t play catch due to the fact that your close minded, harsh abuse to your body (all in the pursuit of some “vain” race bib) has left you crippled?!? No way to live life A to B…Rest up this weekend, be safe and ENJOY!!!
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Posted: February 28, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: biking, brian dunkleman, crossfit, exercise, fitness, fitness world, health, motivation, perspective, running, trail running, workout program Leave a commentIt is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life-
Mail Bag Time:
Sister Janice writes: “Love the workouts daily! Don’t get to do them much but they are inspiring and give me some ideas to kick around. Couple questions: Are the workouts always outside? Also I don’t have a pull up bar, what do I do?”
Thanks for reading and chiming in with a useful email Janice! First question: YES, Always outside not matter what the conditions may be! In today’s age of social media and disconnecting from reality it’s all to easy to make an excuse not to go outside for a program. Second question: Tricky one. If you do the outside thing there are pull up bars everywhere: Play ground equipment, gazebos, trees and so much more. Don’t be afraid to be “socially” awkward working out either! Home made rings, bands and other implements travel well and hang nicely from play ground equipment. Thanks again for the questions!
Brother Jasper writes: “Are you guys CrossFit or what”
Thanks for the email Jasper! Here is the answer you are looking for: No, not even close! For comparison sake consider us the Brian Dunkleman’s of the Random Fitness World and this is now CrossFit:
Where were we?!?
“You guys over there at CultFit HQ need to get your act together, quick!” “No one takes breathing seriously…” How do we tie together what we ramble on endlessly for weeks at a time? Let’s start with what we know are facts, everyone likes a healthy dose of facts during the day:
- You wake up and find a workout program on Pinterest or some X-Fit site that fits your level of fitness errr level of laziness.
- You find some crazy inspiring pic from the webz to get you all amped up and motivated.
- Update the pod thingy with the latest dub-step beats to tune the world out.
- Lace em’ up and take that first step on the weathered path of fitness righteousness.
That’s what you do right? In one form or another?!? The question is from this angle over here: What ties all of that mess together? We’ll make this easy on you with a question: What is the primary link between your body and mind?
One of the best tools you have available to you as a Random Fitness peep is your breath. If you take only one bit-o-info from this ramble today let it be this: Repetition and Training are paramount to your success. This is no joke, Uncle Pliny has been known to keep track of his breath count during runs. And has on numerous occasions pinpointed exactly how he was breathing as struggles were encountered along the way. All of our training approaches have one thing in common: They are practices, and, for the practice to be effective and beneficial to you? Pay keen attention to how you breathe. Allow breathing to become the starting point on your fitness journey!!! And you guys wonder why we go insane about incorporating strenuous activities and yoga together…You can stretch and do mobility drills all you want. Hmm do we smell a new cert on the horizon?!?
The Plan-
We know through research that some of our dear readers are indeed dogs. Look at this unbridled determination!
You don't get this feeling on a treadmill!!!
The Workout-
Remember this from yesterday?
Today and for the rest of the week Warm-Up into a lather before starting the program!
Swings, Pull Ups, Sprints, Inversions and Push Ups all seemingly harmless on the surface…
Not For Time…
3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 Perfect Pull Ups (Change grip each set, arm pits out lose torso, legs fully extended. The opposite of the Hand Stand Hold below!) Followed by:
30 Second Hand Stand Hold (Actively push through the floor and toes aim towards the sky. No flopping around either!)
If you do Pull Ups differently than the way you perform a Hand Stand? What is wrong with this picture? Care to comment…
Notes:
Remember the goal of the week peeps?!? ENJOY!!!
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Posted: January 31, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: biking, fitness, health, inversions, motivation, perspective, planks, push ups, running Leave a commentIf you believe everything you read, better not read-
Today’s sign of the apocalypse:
Stay classy dear friends…
We have been asked numerous times in the past to provide some sort of evidence that there really is a CultFit HQ. So to quell all the lurkers…
The Plan-
We get asked all sorts of questions around here from day-to-day. A classic example of one: “Like yo bro’s I have tried all the programs out there on the inter-webz and nothing seems to work?”
The answer is surprisingly simple and we have secretly been throwing it towards you since our first post some time ago: Walking and Meditation – Simplicity in form and function.
On any given day Uncle Pliny is working away on the Amiga scanning email, finally he has reported back with something tangible: Only .98% of our readers are truly exceptional and gifted athletes (re-read that again aloud pretty please).
To put it nicely for all the fragile types reading this morning sipping on a horrid tasting VitaCoCo (dare we say the Stella Artois of coconut waters?) You are hopelessly addicted to a failed fitness/health relationship. We need to look deep whiten ourselves and become aware of the decisions we make in regards to fitness and health. Only when we are completely comfortable with ourselves will we be able to put a foot forward in good faith to a better lifestyle.
The Workout-
This workout was provided by a dear friend of ours, Sister Harriet. No she didn’t take from that Pinterest site thingy (we hope):
Warm-Up any way you see fit followed by:
In this order- Planks-Inversions-Perfect Push Ups-Goblet Squats-Reverse Lunges (we know, dear reader you are creative so…this is what we did here at CultFit HQ)
Hinge walk Out High Plank Hold for 45 Seconds (walk back to hinge)
Ease into a Hand Stand Hold for 45 Seconds (tippy toes do not like your hands – gently pull them as far apart as possible) with GRACE come back to standing (feet together remember?)
Hinge Walk Out High Plank Hold – 10 Perfect Push Ups (walk Hands Back to standing)
25 Goblet Squats (oh, you did remember to bring some weight?)
25 Reverse Lunges (weight at heart center)
Rinse and Repeat about 10 times or so…If you peeps out there have a fave program that you would like to share that is not from Pinterest please send it in!
Notes:
Be safe today and most importantly, ENJOY!!!
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