Flypaper
Posted: January 28, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: Bliss, blogging, crossfit, exercise, fitness, free range, gluten free, happiness, health, Heaven, hipster, hope, intensity, jogging, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, lust, marathon, motivation, natural, paleo, passion, pilates, running, trail running, walking, whole foods, WOD, Wonder, Wrtiting, yoga 14 CommentsMy God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?-
What if we told you that finishing a marathon, cycling a century, putting up max numbers in the gym, advanced yoga poses, holding a plank for ten minutes … Really don’t matter much?
The ritual does, the preparation, all the hard work, the failure before the activity. Slow down this morning and explore this profound idea with us.
All of the above activities (and more) have a few things in common.
The entire family, including your friends can participate in them. Walking, running, cycling and especially yoga. You don’t have to be “talented” or “skilled” to have fun with your family and friends. There’s no one to impress
By slowing down to savor the ritual, you are afforded the time to socialize and enjoy yourselves. Let’s use cycling as an example: You can tease the dudes in your group about their freshly shaven legs and their choice of skin-tight lycra. When you run out of things to share, you can ease into the saddle and enjoy the scenery rolling by.
Often times when we plan a big, wonderful and memorable “LIFE” changing event: Our very first marathon, first time showing up for yoga class, the sleepless night before your first 5k (look through your blog roll today). We forget about where our journey started. The thing is, our lives are made of so many touching small memories, this is our foundation in life.
The Workout-
A light and flowing Warm Up: Tumbling, Rolling and Jump Rope.
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Ring Dips, Ring Perfect Push Ups, Ring Rows
Notes:
Too many times we only focus on the end result and not where our journey began … Bike ride to the park, a few drinks with friends after a grueling trail run, tying your shoes properly in the morning. The simple things in life truly are heaven.
Thoughts
Posted: January 26, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: books, change, crossfit, Dreams, exercise, fitness, free range, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, hope, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, natural, passion, pilates, Questions, quotes, reading, rest, running, thoughts, whole foods, WOD, writing, yoga 11 CommentsA friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you-
Undoubtedly you have noticed some changes here over the past fortnight. Since day one we have been changing, this applies to your cute life story as well. Indeed many “things” in life change and if you could allow us a few moments of your precious time, we would like to share some questions we received recently via email. Each one hints at change and rather than writing a painfully, bloviated post? Prolixity is not something you will find here …
*We are paraphrasing the emails for your reading pleasure.
Tom – From Seattle
… Great site! Could you tell me more about your early posts? You guys seem to have quite a distaste towards CrossFit, the purveying atmosphere around CrossFit and those who choose to engage in extreme fitness programs?
Tom, our story here is one of injury, pain and suffering. Almost all of our off-line members (many of you as well) have suffered life altering injuries participating in events they loved and CrossFit just so happens to one of them. The early posts were raw with emotion, hate and vitriol … Then something changed. The problem was not the event, sport or routine (CrossFit). It was us. Hate is a powerful emotion that has evaporated over time and the more closely you analyze the details relating to the injuries, trying to find causation … You realize that you yourself are the problem.
Trish – From Auckland
… I’m curious as to why you guys switched to a Creative Commons License?
Trish, from post number one CultFit has been uncopyrighted. In essence this means every post has been released in the public domain, and the copyright on these posts as well.
There is no need to email asking for our permission … Everyone reading this today is free to use our content, however you choose! Email it, Pin-It, Like It, Share It, Write a book with “IT”. Your credit is appreciated but not required.
What you see here is yours, to do as you please. Our mindset of Seva is to give and not to hold, to let go of ownership and free ourselves of the stress and pain of trying to protect ownership (writing a book – copyrights). It is from this humble mindset that we embrace uncopyright. We sincerely hope that in doing so, our community will be better for it and we will all have a smile on our faces.
Notes:
Valentines Day will be the last day we post here at WordPress. You will be able to find us at Cultfit.org from then on out. There will be no “Likes” or “Follows” but rest assured we will be kicking around these parts enjoying your thoughts, company and inspiring posts.
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Much like life, our new site is in work and evolving. Enjoy the rest of your weekends and be well!
These Worries
Posted: January 23, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, crossfit, exercise, failure, fitness, free range, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, hope, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, madness, marathon, Mindfulness, motivation, paleo, passion, pilates, running, simple, trail running, walking, whole foods, WOD 6 CommentsWe are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is…Thus we never actually live, but hope to live-
… Continued from yesterdays little chat …
Part Two: Fail Better
We try our best to ignore the excess baggage we accumulate, but every so often (maybe right now) it catches us off-guard, sneaking up on us when we’re not looking, and we find ourselves staring in surprised horror at the looming emotional darkness inside us.
At such times, many of us bury the baggage again as quickly as possible, we try to forget that it ever happened in the first place. Our grief, however, doesn’t disappear just because we ignore it. It sits comfortably inside our unconscious minds, continuing to silently accumulate as we marinate in the sauce of life.
As the days and years go by, the grief we store, builds up steadily. Unlike a nice series of Farmers Walks, our accumulated grief weighs us down and inhibits us, in many ways, too devious for us to realize. The weight of this inner grief leaves firm, aggressive footprints on our lives.
The more grief we hold inside, the more grief we hold back … The more we become cut off from our own authentic emotions, feelings, our true selves. It’s at this moment we lose the gentle feeling of being alive.
The Workout-
To illustrate our message today (it’s extremely rare for us to do this), proceed with the following:
HEAVY- Farmers Walk Medley (HEAVY means picking up and carrying 100% of your body weight?!?)
Heart Beat Walk, Stork Walk, Rack Position Walk, Ardha Uttanasana Walk (Ask), Single Arm Walk (50%), Piston Press Walk (50%)
Notes:
There is only one way to make it through this day (workout), letting go, gently. Be well.
Float On
Posted: January 22, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, crossfit, exercise, fitness, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, hope, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, natural, paleo, passion, pilates, recovery, running, trail running, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 5 CommentsI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched-
Often at times in life, we seem to be burdened by numerous “things” on any given day. Some of these burdens are healthy and quite beneficial to us: Gravity being one of them. We seem to forget at times how important gravity may be while working out, running and especially during yoga (inversions).
One burden though, is far more exhausting … Our Mental Baggage.
Gravity for the most part has been constant throughout our lives, the same reliable force that patiently reaches out to touch you when you least expect it to. Problem being, many (most if not all) of us accumulate volume upon volume of painful experiences each and every day, baggage. Just imagine if your mental baggage and gravity were equal?!?
Let us now turn our attention to pain, honestly … When you trip and fall on a loose bit of gravel? It hurts, you feel pain. The same applies to the mental baggage we endlessly accumulate during our lives.
End of Part One
The Workout-
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
KB Floor Presses and Russian Sit Ups
Gravity, today, is not your friend.
Notes:
Sadly, we base our success and failure in life on pain. Does your workout program punish you? Do you feel like you failed because you are not sore after a workout? Unfortunately, we are not very adept at dealing with failures, the disappointment of not being “sore”. Enter: The Mental Baggage.
Keep in touch and be well today.
I’m Simply
Posted: January 17, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: Adventure Time, blogging, crossfit, exercise, fitness, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, hope, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, natural, Notre Dame, Osho, passion, pilates, Reality, recovery, running, sex, social media, Te'o, twitter, walking, whole foods, yoga 7 Comments…
Saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you can
get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple
witness of your thought processes.
It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you.
Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you
judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this
is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once
the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that
you are the witness, A watcher.
And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as
you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start
disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.
That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for
the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
― Osho
The Workout-
Are you experiencing trouble today running or making it through your series of asanas? Let’s head back to the beginning … To the basics, your foundation.
Rest Day … Shavasana
Notes:
What is REAL in your life, right in this moment? HINT: Real is not something you “Like” or “Follow” … Be inspired today.
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