Wednesday 22 February 2012
Posted: February 22, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, cycling, exercise, fitness, health, hiking, motivation, running 5 CommentsHear the meaning within the word-
Thud, thud, thud…”Why in the hell is my left knee hurting during this morning run? Two more miles and I’ll call it quits…” Fast forward 1-2-5-10-15 or however many years later and you know what? Watch this video if you dare! (The video is real and graphic – Just like life if you can’t handle it stop beating yourself up daily)
Total-Knee-Replacement-Surgery
After you finish up watching the video take a gander at this excellent piece:
Mr. Able simply breaks it down for all of “You People” that stop by here daily.
Raising Our Kids to Think, Feel & Be Healthy
Now to set up the above article and we know this is hard for some of you (like the 482 peeps that emailed yesterday). The writer ties together nicely in a polite sociable sort of way what we would spend a whole week banging you over the head…”Hey wait aren’t you guys doing that right now?!?”
Does your training prepare you for this? Probably not!
The Plan-
We always like to present our fair readers with unique and challenging programs to consider. So on that note check this out:
The Workout-
Trail Run/Bike/Swim/Hike or whatever you honestly enjoy and do not say you enjoy running with sand bags, for about an hour. Followed by:
2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 Perfect Pull Ups (each set of two is with a different and unique grip)
5 Thread the Needle Reverse Lunges (each leg) and 5 Lateral Lunges (each leg) between each set of pull ups duh!
We feel as though due the increase in Random Fitness readers over the past month to preface this workout: It is not a balls to the wall kill yourself for time event!
A majority if not all of you will not even break a sweat doing this, oh and no bands on the pull ups either! “Hmm I wonder why pull ups and lunges are important…Oh well I never ever use abductors when running a marathon anyways. And since when are abductors important to the overall health of my knees?”
If you do this above program properly and with the correct muscle activation…tomorrow is going to be hell!
Notes:
Be safe peeps and as always feel free to experiment and let us know the results, ENJOY!!!
Tuesday 21 February 2012
Posted: February 21, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, exercise, fitness, health, lifting, motivation, perspective, running 3 CommentsThe man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life–
We generally hope you know that acute pain signals an injury, we hope? As you reach out your hand to “accidentally” touch a hot stove; you pull your hand away in response to the pain. Give or take a few days and before you know it all is healed and you are prepared to go at it again.
If only it was the simple huh?
The discussion we want to have today touches on pain and self-awareness (feel free to comment on something blatantly unrelated to what we just wrote…)
One of the major problems we have is a mind-body disconnect. A really good book to pick up is the: Science of Flexibility by Michael J. Alter
A few examples of a mind-body disconnect you see almost daily maybe in yourself or others: Doing back bends in yoga after not bending like that for 35 years, Glute/Ham Sit-Ups for no apparent reason, Bench Press with your mate after WOD’ing (what a ridiculous term!) for six months and claiming the bench is too functional, kipping Pull Ups. The list is long so hopefully these will touch a nerve in you?!?
As we try to tie this together today let us get back to our original message concerning the hot stove. We know there are a few X-Fit apes and yoga moms reading today that simply don’t get the point and continually reach out and touch the hot stove over and over again feeling the pain each time, becoming conditioned to enjoy it as the scars grow bigger and bigger. Just as we preach about playing like a kid and enjoying life…How many times does it take for a kid to touch a hot stove to learn his lesson? That’s what we thought peeps!
The Plan-
Simple day today, really simple!
The Workout-
Not for time…
500 Swings
250 One Arm Press (each arm)
100 Hinge Walk Out Push Ups (Arms sore from yesterday? Good!)
If you don’t move throughout the day as effortlessly as the slinky above you need to watch this gif all day long then. Who would have ever thought you could learn how to lift and learn from a slinky?
Notes:
Stay safe Random Fitness peeps and good luck to our X-Fit/CultFit open peeps, ENJOY!!!
Monday 20 February 2012
Posted: February 20, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: diet, exercise, fitness, health, motivation, perspective 1 CommentWeather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning-
Not so Breaking News: My Active Faith v. The Cult of CrossFit
We will be paying attention to what happens above…stay tuned peeps this is going to get interesting quick!
How do you begin to form a sense of self-respecting awareness? Follow us here at CultFit HQ as we explore the path that is often overlooked. We apologize to those of you reading at Starbucks this morning for allowing us to take a break the last two weeks, kicking the proverbial can down the road. We do take Random Fitness seriously. Just not after surgery and mega doses of painkillers and Arnica Oil rubdowns.
Insanity, P90x, ReeBok CrossFit, Yoga-Mom Yoga, Pilates, Group Fitness, Boot-camps, late night infomercials (Hell anything else you can think of?) fail you and us on so many levels. We are not opening the floor up here for debate whether or not these programs work. Some do and some don’t, understand? We’re digging much deeper here than the yoga instruction PDF that came with your recent P90x purchase or broad times and modial domain rubbish that X-Fit was founded on!
Talking points for the next fortnight: Pain is a gift, foundations, awareness of breath, small muscle groups, range of motion AROUND the joints not through them (we are currently penning a book touching on this subject and something a majority of you need to address soon.)
There will be more added to the list and as always expect some douche bag antics along the way to keep things light. Did you read that? Don’t take yourself too seriously Greek yogurt addicted Random Fitness albóndigas!?!
The Plan-
9 out 10 emails we receive a week touch on this subject:
If you had to put our CultFit style/theory into a “Family History” definition of sorts? Consider us fourth cousins second removed from holistic fitness. Some call us the “back packing across Europe cousins of X-Fit” and the “holiday in Peru Grandparents” of a brash young crowd consisting of hipster Random Fitness peeps.
Required Reading <—Take time to read this!!!
If you fail to see the angle from which we write you from after reading about the great Jack LaLanne in the above article? 3-2-1 continue picking your programs from the netz, paying out $$$ for gym memberships on a yearly basis and trying quick fix remedies for your fitness aliments.
“There’s a bullying strain to the modern fitness ethos, a blurred line between cheerleading and hectoring. And it’s hard not to wonder whether that kind of intimidation — in addition to the social and economic realities of diet and exercise — helps explain the paradox that for all the newfangled aerobic machines and reduced-rate January gym memberships, Americans aren’t noticeably haler and healthier.”
The Workout-
Our journey this week is predicated on the belief to avoid pain when you work out. Pain is to be treated as a gift to give us feedback about what we are doing wrong. Do not confuse pain with difficulty, exhaustion, pushing the limit etc. Pain from here on out is a feedback tool to let you know you are an insufferable idiot!
If you are already mid-stream in a rugged, proven, goal oriented and tested (like our tested links to the side here) program you can use a majority of what we do on your planned recovery days. Over the 270 posts we have written: 97.4% of the our Workouts push you to the limit. These are no cheering squad “Box” workouts where the entire class performs band assisted pull ups and lives vicariously through your impressive lifts. We need to look deep whiten ourselves and find the motivation to succeed. Uncle Mo is still feeling the side effects from competing in the X-Fit games back in 2008 with three cracked ribs (yeah we were competing in the X-Fit games before you knew it was cool…Gosh you really do take yourself that seriously?!?). Pin these thoughts in the back of your mind as we gather steam for the next few weeks.
An old favorite that in its simplicity humbles so many peeps…
45 Second Hand Stand Hold
35 Perfect Push Ups
45 Second Hand Stand Hold
30 Perfect Push Ups
45 Second Hand Stand Hold
25 Perfect Push Ups
45 Second Hand Stand Hold
20 Perfect Push Ups
45 Second Hand Stand Hold
10 Perfect Push Ups
45 Second Hand Stand Hold
5 Perfect Push Ups
Notes:
We know some of our readers are scratching their pretty fragile brains right now. Here’s why: As the snow starts to melt and the self-proclaimed ELITE athletes around the world come out of hibernation to prove themselves (yoga mom 5k’s, X-Fit Games, princess marathons). Injuries are going to happen to you for some very vain reasons, ENJOY???
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Posted: February 8, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: exercise, fitness, good free hippie porn, health, motivation, running, sprint 3 CommentsIntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful-
Today’s sign of the Apocalypse: Receiving 3478 emails from concerned yoga/X-Fit moms after we poke fun at their choice of water in a random blog-o-sphere post.
Now here is a really thought-provoking question this morning peeps:
Not to pull anything from the link above although we have been kicking the idea around here for sometime if you actually read this blog instead of just clicking the like thingy on a daily basis…?
Uncle Rufus always said: “The best way to answer a question is with a plethora of new questions.” Feel free to put on your Random Fitness cliché glasses at any time:
- Would you enjoy working out with yourself?
- How far would you run/bike/swim before you decided to choke’em out?
- Are you visibly upset after looking in the rear view mirror on the way to work, the gym or the local co-op?
Hmm lots of deep, textured, thought-provoking questions today. Sister Grace recently (as in yesterday) emailed us a question that we feel a vast majority of our readers ask themselves almost daily: “I want to run a marathon next month and compete in a triathlon later in the year. Problem is, I despise running and take no pleasure from it. How do I go about reaching my goals?”
Let’s leave that alone for a bit and let it marinate in your brain…or until you read about 10 exercises to improve your super-human abilities on the blog-roll?!?
The Plan-
The Workout-
From our “Not sure what to call this” series at the palatial CultFit HQ:
Pull up your Google Machine and query away “Proper Calisthenics”…Find one program to your liking and perform it for, let’s say 25 minutes. Followed by:
One, Two or Three Perfect Pull Ups (change grip each pull) followed by:
20 Thread the Needle Reverse Lunges- Each Leg (may want to Google Machine that as well) followed by:
Sprint!!! Back to bar- Rinse and Repeat about…Hmm Ten times maybe?!?
Or "yourself"...
Notes:
Sneaky little one, huh? Time to chime in peeps: Who flopped all over the place yesterday? It’s cool and a process to say the least! You would be amazed at how many people just pick a Random Workout due to the simple fact that it looks nice and spiffy. Anyways have a splendid day and ENJOY!!!
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