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!!!
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!!!
Monday 03 October 2011
Posted: October 3, 2011 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: 10k, 5k, active rest, crossfit, cultfit, educated mind, elite program, elite yoga, free range, gluten free, goblet, half, hipster, intensity, jog, jogging, kettlebell, lululemon, marathon, natural, paleo, pood, random fitness, recovery, rest, simplicity, tooth decay, trail running, Walk, walking, whole foods, WOD, X-Fit yoga, yoga, yoga WOD Leave a commentAs a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly-
Thank you for all the feedback, both positive and negative! It really does help us here at CultFit HQ no matter what the naysayers opine. Also, to all our athletes who competed this past weekend (you know who you are…) congratulations on the podium finishes! Training to lead a healthy life and to produce measurable results…what a novel idea, huh?
The Plan-
Think of some movements this morning that you have been neglecting of late and why you have been putting them on the back burner. If they are there for a reason i.e they make you hurt or aggravate an old injury, leave them there for good! The idea today is craft a series of movements that augment your training goals in addition to the proven movements that have been working for you of late.
The Workout-
Pulled this one from our “Craft Brew Series” here at the CultFit archives…
Walk/Run-Run-Run/Walk…Tempo run peeps, find a good pace and stay in the groove for 30 minutes.
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Weighted Step Ups
Perfect Dips
Notes-Once you pick the weight up for the ‘step ups’ it stays up…Plant foot and push through, nice controlled movement. ENJOY!!!
