Friday 20 April 2012
Posted: April 20, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, exercise, fitness, hate, health, hipster, intensity, jog, jogging, kettlebell, life, love, marathon, motivation, natural, paleo, perspective, pilates, running, trail running, WOD, yoga 19 CommentsBear some stress, bear some sorrows, Biding for time, quash some of your foes. In this drama called life, always act mindfully; And revel within yourself-
Before we get too far ahead of ourselves on this fine morning a few questions are in order. Are you addicted to over training and injuring yourself? We know you don’t do it on purpose and repeatedly injuring yourself is unintentional, or is it? What we are trying to discuss with you this morning is that the outcome of your self-injury often leaves a permanent mark on your life. Whether or not your intentions were pure in the first place.
Do we dare tread the murky waters of the addiction stream today? No, although the addiction you have to injuring yourself is eerily similar to the release of your emotions. Unlike talking to a friend, a running partner or your spouse about aggression, fear and self hate. The tools you employ in injuring yourself while running, lifting and engaging in Extreme Fitness routines give the reliable and predictable response you desire. Your actions cannot fail you in the same ways the people in your life can.
Just as some prefer not to workout, to stay at home and cut themselves…To party too hard on the weekend, waking up in regret because of their actions the night before. Are your actions not the same? Which one is worse?
The Plan-
These women all 127.6lbs of them are truly Gifted and Exceptional athletes. Their lives have been dedicated to lifting/sport and achieving at the highest possible levels within their respected discipline. Did they watch a Reebok CrossFit commercial recently and just as quick as you can snap your fingers…Started to move around some serious weight? Nope, not even close! Is this video inspiring, yes! Motivational, you bet! An invitation to destroy yourself in the pursuit of who knows what, absolutely not!
The Workout-
Whew…Talk about building some tension in the room? If you made it this far into the post, Congrats! Time to roll up our sleeves to do some honest work…
Warm Up as you see fit into a thick, hardy lather and proceed with the following:
3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 Perfect Pull Ups (Lengthen and Stretch, Nice even pulls, Change grip on each set) Alternating with…
45 Seconds of a High Push Up Plank and a Low Push Up Plank (Actively Push Away From the Floor, DO NOT Settle into these, PUSH!) Pull Up/Plank…You get it?!?
Once you go through the above…
Whatever you choose to do as your Warm Up today, Redo it with passion and conviction! Really get into it, safely!
Notes:
An end to another long week is upon us and deservedly so in our book, we all deserve a little “me” time and rest. Be safe this weekend and ENJOY!!!
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Posted: April 18, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, exercise, family, fitness, free range, gluten free, health, hipster, intensity, jogging, kettlebell, lululemon, marathon, motivation, natural, paleo, perspective, pilates, planks, recovery, rest, running, talent, trail running, walking, WOD, yoga 32 CommentsNew leaves and old roots are what makes a tree magnificent. New knowledge and old principles meld to become dharma. If wisdom of the sages can blend with the new sciences, It would be for the benefit to humanity-
Today’s sign of the Apocalypse: NYC’s most extreme workout
Each and every one of you taking the precious time to read this morning have a unique talent of some sort or another. If you feel the need to decree to the blog-o-sphere what that talent may be? Please leave a comment at the end today. YogaMom/Extreme Fitness Peep? Is this your talent:
Give us a moment to center ourselves here and…Hmm, Hmm Ok…How about entertaining this thought for a second: Dedicate yourself to right now, this very moment! Painfully forget about whether or not you have “found your talent”…How about finding our lives!?!
Sadly in today’s culture, it is so very easy to think that being talented, popular, the mayor of your pilates studio on Four Square or 400 friends on Facebook is the ultimate end goal. From the moment we awake in the morning we are conditioned to believe that our achievements are what makes us interesting, influential, and special.
You know what is important in your life? What truly matters on a deep, heart-felt personal level…is up to each of us!!!
The Plan-
The Workout-
Cleverly pulled from our “Spring Medley” series…
There are Warm Ups and then there are Warm the Joints Up…Two entirely different sexy beasts!
Today we will perform both…Warm Up into a nice lather doing something you enjoy and then Warm Up the Joints:
5-4-3-2-1 Hammer Curls to a One Arm Perfect Press (Feet together, toes actively grabbing the earth beneath you, eyes look through the press!!!) followed by:
10 Perfect Push Ups
Quick question peeps? When you walk are you not performing a plank? And when you perform a One Arm Press? Hmm…Why is it then when you do a plank it looks like hell? Do you walk funny…So on that note how about a nice Plank Medley?
Focus more on form than time today and everyday for that matter…All Planks begin with a Hinge Walk Out!!!
High Plank, Low Plank (chin barely touching floor), Side Planks w/press (look through the weight), Fore Arm Plank…Stand up and with the heavy kettle bells (or any other heavy object – KIDS!!!) you neatly placed nearby earlier: Rack Hold Farmers Walk 40m Out and Back.
How many times through is up to you! 10+ would be something to brag about via a tweet…
Notes:
Patience, Form, Flow and Grace today dear reader. Have fun and ENJOY!!!
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Posted: April 17, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, exercise, fitness, free range, gluten free, hate, health, hipster, intensity, jogging, kettlebell, love, lululemon, marathon, memos, motivation, natural, notes, perspective, pilates, postcards, recovery, running, swimming, trail running, walking, WOD, writing, yoga 13 CommentsIn silence, in gossip, in humor, in music, So also in love, in bravery and victory; In all these and more does Man seek peace and joy. But happiness is within the soul-
This may come as a surprise to some of you reading this morning that, Yes there is a kinder gentler side here at CultFit. Over the past few years “our” clients detached from the inter-webz and social media have taken part in a rather old-fashioned means of communication, postcards! And finally due to much coaxing from these other member’s we have decided to present it to you!
Random Motivational Postcards for One Year!!! (Must clicky on this one!!!)
Miraculously you can actually feel and hold a postcard, pick it up and flick it around. You can even put them in the spokes on your new $2500 bike that was ridden once last year. All kidding aside this is pretty cool in our book and helps out a few people in a tough spot either in training or getting motivated to run a marathon for the first time. If you feel like this is something you would like or would like to share with a friend or family member? Please take the time to pass it on!!!
**1976…Hmm. Sums up our lives today pretty well?!? The fun starts at 1:35…**
The Plan-
The Workout-
As we start to spend more time outdoors this spring take the time to look around you for some ladybugs! Our good mates at the Lost Ladybug Project desperately need each and every one of you reading today to help out. Face it, you never leave the house without your iThingy to take precious little photos of yourself after a hard 2 mile run…How about not worrying about your image for a bit and looking around yourself for some friendly little critters!?!
Warm Up Thoroughly and certainly Not For Time…
Pulled from the “Honest Effort” archives here at CultFit HQ:
75-80% Max Effort Hill Sprints followed by:
20 Perfect Push Ups (At the top before you head back down)
By all means feel free to play with the rep range with the Push Ups. Meaning, ideally we would like 200-300 Push Ups today although that is a lot of hill sprints. Try to find a balance this morning that works for you and pushes you a tad…As an example: Sister Mel performed 10 Hill Sprints and 30 Perfect Push Ups…
Notes:
The Lost Ladybug Project is super-duper importante to us here and we implore you to help out! Be safe today during the program and by all means ENJOY!!!
Monday 16 April 2012
Posted: April 16, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, exercise, fitness, free range, health, hipster, intensity, jogging, kettlebell, life, lululemon, marathon, motivation, natural, pain, paleo, perspective, pilates, recovery, remedy, rest, running, swings, therapy, trail running, walking, WOD, yoga 16 CommentsTo stray about and tire. To beg and feed oneself. To brag and act in conceit. To simper and fawn. To wilt and whine; to be furious; to be miserable: What is this living but a child’s antic!
Quick question to start this splendid Monday morning off on the right foot: Why do you insist that your workout should be so hard and uncomfortable? This post may be as personal as we ever get around here for one simple reason: There is an ethical brush fire surrounding the Fitness World and we are right in the middle of it. Uncle Francis recently coined the term…” The Random Fitness Placebo Effect.”
We are going to put faith in you dear reader that you are aware of the placebo effect and save you from explaining it here. That would be painful and nauseating…The faith we do not have in you is when this applies to your health and fitness program.
Answer these three simple questions after your next WAD or fire-breathing 5k program:
How does your current program enhance your current physical well-being? How much effort does your fitness program require from you? How many times during the last week did you perform said fitness program?
Expected benefit, Perceived effort, Adherence and Perceived benefit= The Random Fitness Placebo Effect (nice little definition if we must say so…). Basically and as simply as possible: The The Random Fitness Placebo Effect is a function of how hard YOU thought your fitness program was.
At least 300 peeps will email us here this week wanting something difficult and complicated to perform. Almost all of them will make the assumption that a challenging series of movements will do more for their overall outward appearance (That is what this is all about right? Gotta look hot in them yoga pants?) than a more simple less dynamic movement, or that a complicated program will do more for their body than just being mindful and present in oneself.
You will never get a Placebo Program here! Four peeps now why this is! There is a prevailing No-Pain-No-Gain mentality stirring up the winds to drive the flames further within the blog-0-sphere…You won’t find it here.
The Plan-
The Workout-
Thoroughly Warm Up into a think lather this morning and proceed with the following:
**Once you pick up your weight of choice it stays up**
25 KB Hard Style Swings
20 KB One Arm Perfect Presses (Each Arm)
20 Alternate/Pivot Goblet Squats
20 One Arm Bent Over KB Rows
Gently set the weight down and perform:
100m Sprint Out and Back
Rinse and Repeat…Oh, 5-10 times?
Notes:
Just because you choose to engage in something that YOU perceive is hard, does not necessarily give you the perceived benefit YOU think it does?!? Be safe today and most importantly, ENJOY!!!
Friday 13 April 2012
Posted: April 13, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, desire, drama, exercise, fitness, free range, gluten free, health, hipster, intensity, jogging, kettlebell, marathon, motivation, natural, paleo, passion, perspective, pilates, recovery, relationships, rest, running, sex, trail running, walking, WOD, yoga 13 CommentsThe best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up-
Today’s sign of the Apocalypse:
Some of you reading this fine morning may or may not know that the 116th running of the Boston Marathon is going down this weekend. You also may or my not know (who really cares) that one of our dear team members here, Sister Margaret has been in Boston all week preparing for the run. We kindly asked her to sit down and write a little exposé about the ‘Merican running community. Before we get to her scathing piece…What is up with Boston anyways? Who really cares about that city? Now its common knowledge that the “real” Boston is in Lincolnshire home of the majestic St Botolph’s Church and not some lame, wanna be spoiled rotten sports city. Anyways…
…Is Christian Grey running this year or not? I sincerely hope so, Holy crap: Americans are so bland and two-dimensional!
Something titillating happened during the course of being amongst a gathering of local runners during the past few days, the proverbial light bulbs started to flicker then they finally managed to fully illuminate themselves. These events were eerily similar to reading an old Penny Dreadful when I was younger. Why is it that everyone seems to feel uncomfortable about having their inner and outer selves virtually delineated? Just yesterday I spotted a young woman craftily dressed for the running occasion reading the dreadful and horribly written book Fifty Shades of Grey at an outdoor cafe for lunch. Getting off on a little light spanking and unarousing sex scenes while sipping on her crisp Perrier. Oh, almost forgot: munching on a fresh cheese plate as well. I could keenly tell her inner temperature and desire were rising, how? The sweat outlined fingers grasping her iPad and the salacious look gripping her face.
Then I started to think about this in broader terms. Today you can Google: “Fitness” and in .019 seconds you get your daily dose of erotic movements served to you to fill your every desire. Beautiful men and women barely clothed, steaming with sweat…Holy Crap!!! I could care less what movements they are performing, I want the virtual image of perceived hard work in my head during the run this Sunday!
Back in the old days there was something dreadful about running for miles on end. Where do I pull my motivation for the final 15 miles? Remember when your were a kid back in the day at the local corner store trying to build up the courage to buy the June issue of Pent House (gals have their faves as well) in 1980? “I look to young. There is no way the man behind the counter will sell it to me! Dear God what if my parents find out?” The sooner we admit that nobody needs a seedy magazine to see nudity in today’s world…
So it should come as no surprise now that everyone (and I mean everyone) is hyper obsessed with fitness/health because it’s easy, sexy and extremely assessable. Do you engage in a running routine or pull your motivation for a hard workout from a scantily glad stud who you perceive is begging to see some secret potential in you? From what I can surmise: The only times you are thoroughly motivated to run or workout is when you finish a chapter of fifty Shades of Grey and open the Pinterest app to find a hot young man to keep you company for the last few miles. And for the love of god if I hear one more yoga mom here ask: “Is this cheese plate paleo friendly?”
The Plan-
Inner drive, passion, desire to achieve the unachievable…Holy Crap!!!
The Workout-
Let’s have some fun before the weekend begins…You will need a park, an open space and some friends and family.
Tag Running/Sprinting to Warm Up: Rock-Paper-Scissors to see who tags first! Do that for however long…Followed by:
Our Warm Up for the week and 20 or so minutes on the Monkey Bars.
Play around and have fun!
Notes:
What drives you? Sex, passion or pleasure? We sincerely wish all of you reading today a healthy and fun-filled weekend, ENJOY!!!
**If you have read Fifty Shades of Grey…You know what Holy Crap is all about…**
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