Friday 27 April 2012
Posted: April 27, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, blogs, cooking, crossfit, exercise, fitness, food, free range, gluten free, healing, health, hipster, holistic health, kettlebell, life, marathon, motivation, natural, pain, paleo, pilates, recovery, rest, running, sweet wholesome health, trail running, walking, WOD, yoga 25 CommentsAnything that can feel pain should not be put to pain-
What are the chances of you keeping a secret? Cool…We are so excited to announce that on Monday a dear friend will be stopping by to pay a visit. Which reminds us to clean up a bit over the weekend and maybe shave? Anyways, Melissa with Sweet Wholesome Health is kind and gracious enough to share her expertise in all things that can bring us closer to a healthy and happier life. If ever there was a time where we were lost for words this would be that time. Melissa passionately provides pure and thoughtful information that we can all use in our daily lives. Not since when the Boston Bruins were eliminated from the NHL playoffs have we been this excited about something.
Well it’s happened once again. You have wasted precious seconds from your life reading the musings here at CultFit all week. We tossed a fair amount of stuff out into the abysses and we sincerely hope it “clicked” with some of you. Today’s post was going to go over Factual Fitness and Contextual Fitness. But who really cares? We’ll save it for sometime next week…Sound like a plan?
Speaking of which. One way to look at CultFit would be as a conversation amongst all of us (followers, friends and lurkers). If there is something you are passionate about and would like to share please pipe up and send it in. No kidding, Uncle Frank here has a whole weeks worth or writing dedicated to the best hot dogs on earth: Hofmann Hot Dogs!!! You NYC types can take your Sabretts, Nathan’s and well? You know what to do with them!?!
The Plan-
And your excuse today is?!?
The Workout-
Thank you Sister Margret for sending in this little gem of a program before the weekend begins!!!
Warm Up as you see fit…We choose to do a Pulse Trail Run (basically a nice flowing run with pulses/bursts up the steep bits…Followed by:
**You did remember to bring a kettle bell or dumbbell with you to the trail this morning, right? Hmm Farmers Walk to the trail head…?!?**
At this point in our relationship its fair to say that you don’t leave home without some sort of technology strapped to your delicate body every morning. Good because we need something to keep time today or you could be like Uncle Pliny and watch the sun rise above the horizon…15 degrees = 15 minutes or so?
Find a tree and…
Hand Stand Hold (Actively press away from the ground beneath you. Toes point to the sky.) Please do not flop down…Flow and Grace…Followed by:
15 One Legged Dead Lifts (Weight is held opposite of standing leg. Your chin and tail bone are mortal enemy’s…Focus and pull them away from one another!)
Hand Stand Hold
15 One Legged Dead Lifts (Following along so far? Good…)
Hand Stand Hold
15 One Legged Dead Lifts and 15 Perfect One Arm Press (Hinge, DL, Hammer Curl to Rack Hold and Press)
Hand Stand Hold
15 One Legged Dead Lifts and 15 Perfect One Arm Press
At this point you hate life. This program is not a battle or a struggle against humanity! The tree really dislikes you because you slam into it every time for a hold and the ground really does not like having weight dropped on its head. Form, Flow and Grace for at least 30 minutes or so. If you can only do one DL or Press? That’s awesome!!! One perfect rep is better than 15 disastrous ones (think about that for a moment…)!!!
Notes:
If we were to ask one thing of you it would be this: Our sense of community at CultFit revolves around you and our ability share our thoughts openly. What say you?!? Have a great weekend and most importantly, ENJOY!!!
Thursday 26 April 2012
Posted: April 26, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, blogs, crossfit, exercise, fitness, food, free range, fun, gluten free, health, hipster, jogging, kettlebell, kids, life, lululemon, marathon, motivation, natural, NFL draft, NHL playoffs, paleo, perspective, philosophy, pilates, problems, psycology, recovery, rest, running, trail running, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 23 CommentsThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts-
Hmm Hmm…Don’t mind us as we puff out our masculine chest and spew machismo all about. Oh, sorry didn’t mean to get sweat all over your precious new Athleta Yoga top. Feel free to slide off your comfy Sanuks before you settle in this morning on the couch. We just poured a nice cup of Mr. Grey and chances are the kettle is still warm as evidence of the stream still gently rising into the air. If for some chance you thought things could not get any worse around here after yesterday’s Nickelback, Facts vs. Ignorance and dog balls post? Think again dear peep, its Thursday!!! Speaking of which we have never invited you into our pristine kitchen arena here at CultFit HQ? How rude…
We love food and heating things up in the microwave and basically we would like to share some of our offerings with you. So without further delay…Feast your eyes on our picturesque dinning options and like we always do on Thursday “Best Caption Wins Something”:
The Plan-
The Workout-
Rest Day…
Without spouting off and going on a twisting rant we understand that Rest Days are the hardest part of your workout program. “Like duh…How do I get better by meditating in the car on the way to work?” or “Shit Son…I have a race this weekend and I am 15 miles low for my mileage this week!”
The simple truth: Your hyper stimulated brain never needs to rest: Go, Go, Go all the time! Problem is: You have this thing called “Your Body” and your body secretly hates your brain and every thing your brain does to it. Is it too much to ask to listen to your body for one day? Luckily for you dear peeps we have a “Body” and a “Brain” on retainer here at CultFit HQ…Here is a recent conversation we overheard in the bathroom three stalls over:
BODY– “I’m sore, that’s all.”
BRAIN– “I wonder who else is in here? Work sucks, kids are turds, what is the rep scheme today? God Vancouver sucks and the Penguins blew it! Damn Russians and who ever liked the Sedin twins to begin with? Jesus, look at this! Who put the toilet paper in the dispenser backwards? Now I’m screwed with bad luck for the rest of the day! Shit I forgot my lunch…Well Whole Foods is right next door to work, I’ll just do that instead of going home in lunch traffic. Hmm if I do go home I could stop by the co-op and do some yoga at YogaMed? Yeah, sounds like a plan. Almost forgot about the NFL draft, talk about a bunch of losers that watch that crap for four days straight! Tom Brady is still hot as hell!!! Time to wipe and go someone is coming in…Ahhh man not right next to me…”
BODY– “I’m sore, that’s all.”
Notes:
Have an awesome day, Rest Up and ENJOY!!!
Thursday 12 April 2012
Posted: April 12, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: active rest, blogging, crossfit, exercise, fitness, free range, fun, gluten free, health, hipster, intensity, jogging, kettlebell, lululemon, marathon, mobility, motivation, natural, paleo, perspective, pilates, recovery, rest, running, test. abs, trail running, walking, WOD, workout, yoga 22 CommentsNo one man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one-
Thursdays never seem to arrive quick enough during the week, do they? There are a million other things to do on any other ordinary Thursday. Sometimes we like to compare the ingredients in organic brown rice? Other times there is a Arnica Oil on the market that simply sounds too good to be true. In the end we consider Thursdays a time to step back and reflect on all the amazing things happening around us…You know what? It’s “Best Caption Wins Something” time:
The Plan-
The Workout-
Your choice…Either a nice refreshing Rest Day or one of our fave workouts pulled from our “Don’t Stop, Don’t Puke” series here at CultFit HQ?
If you choose the workout? Well, it’s not much of a workout but rather a nasty little test we like to do from time to time to chart progress amongst our dear followers.
Today’s Top Tip for aspiring fitness albóndigas: You can learn more watching someone walk and performing a plank than you can HSPU’s or prone running.
The Test: Hinge Walk Out to a High Push Up Plank…Feet together, Hinge, Walk your Hands out to a High Plank Position, Head in a neutral position and actively pushing through the floor with your delicate little hands.
Anything less than three minutes and you fail our test. There is no amount of crunches, ab mat situp’s, yoga, core blast, 6 weeks to a 6 pack routines you can do to prepare for this today.
If at anytime you lose stability in your upper body, STOP. If your hips drop, STOP. If you start building tension in your neck, STOP!!! If you seriously want to mess yo self up disregard the previous notes!?!
Hinge, Walkout, High Plank…How hard could it be?
Notes:
By all means give our test a go and see where you stand. Some glaring weaknesses will present themselves after 30 seconds…Most importantly do this safely and ENJOY!!!
Thursday 5 April 2012
Posted: April 5, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, crossfit, exercise, fitness, free range, gluten free, health, hunger games, jogging, kettlebell, life, marathon, motivation, natural, paleo, perspective, pilates, recovery, rest, running, trail running, walking, WOD, yoga 8 CommentsBreakfasts come and go Renee, but Hartford? The Whale? They beat Vancouver maybe once or twice in a lifetime-
***A beer to the first peep who can name what we are really excited about (No homo)**
It’s Thursday once again and you all know what that means! Put your caption spectacles on and give this one a go:
The Plan-
Embrace your inner self and become comfy in your own skin:
Keith Apicary…You Rock!!!
The Workout-
Rest Day or if you happen to live in your parent’s basement:
Dear God the world really is going to hell!!!
Notes:
Please take a moment today to pay yourself first and realize all the hard work you have been doing is not going without notice…REST!!! Be safe and no matter what the season may be, ENJOY!!!
Monday 26 March 2012
Posted: March 26, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, crossfit, exercise, fitness, health, life, motivation, paleo, perspective, religion, running, weight loss, yoga 6 CommentsIf you are convincing yourself to do something, you are doing the wrong thing. This is the litmus test-
What a wonderful weekend hanging around doing not much of anything, besides going to the park and enjoying a long walk. We were pleased as well to wake up Sunday morning with the great news that we have been awarded the Liebster Award from our friend/pal/mate: mymultipersonality. Thank you so much and shortly (today) we will have a linky thing on the side here that will painstaking show our heart-felt appreciation!
Also, and what a splendid way to start the week: Weight4U awarded us the Versatile Blogger Award!!! Allow us a few minutes to jump behind the pulpit…
These awards do mean a bunch due to the fact that they signal an investment of time, thought and consideration of the peeps who nominate you. Basically they read, which in our book is a good thing. We understand that the posts here at CultFit are not always cute and friendly, neither is life. You can’t always sit on your “10 paleo diet trick” posts and “do this for ripped abs” fence for long…Dive into the minutia if you like? Just don’t take an easy stance!
Thank you once again mymultipersonality and Weight4U!
The Plan-
Patterns and loading…Or if you like just go do your program today with reckless abandon? One of the most primal pleasures in life is watching a little peep take his or her first steps. Ten to one odds if you can find a scientific article about a peep popping out the womb running (JaJa- Writing in platitudes is exhilarating). Second to that is watching an “adult” (used very, very loosely) doing yoga or pilates (especially X-Fit peeps) for the first time. Let’s keep this in mind as we go trough the programs this week…
The Workout-
Not for time and 75 to 80% effort today…Entertain this for a minute: You know how to go balls out everyday beating the road, the gym. You are intimately aware of the feeling it provides you. Is it too much to suggest that working within a set range and peaking at the proper time is foreign to you?!?
Best done outside…
100 Hinge Walk Out Push Ups (10 walk outs – 10 push ups – loosen and lube up the joints, listen to your body this morning) Followed by:
25 Goat Bad Belly Swings Followed by:
25 Reverse Walking Lunges (Thread the needle here, Pattern and Load!!! 5-6 times is cool) Followed by:
25 Broad Jumps (Full Active Hip Extension – Think Long Jumper…Pattern and Load!!!)
Please for the sake of all things holy!!! Do Not rattle these out like a fool…If 75-80% means little or nothing to you? Carry on as normal.
Notes:
Be safe today and most importantly, ENJOY!!!
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