Thursday 19 April 2012
Posted: April 19, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: active rest, crossfit, exercise, fitness, free range, gluten free, health, jogging, kettlebell, marathon, motivation, natural, paleo, perspective, philosophy, pilates, psycology, recovery, rest, running, simplicity, trail running, walking, WOD, yoga 18 CommentsYou know, when you were a baby in your crib, your father looked down at you, he had but one hope – some day my son will grow to be a man. Well look at you now. You just got your asses whipped by a bunch of goddamn nerds-
The night air is remarkably cool and brilliantly lit by the night sky. The perfect recipe for a Rest Day…Before we take this post sideways and off into the abysses like we normally do. We feel the need to speak with you for one minute, a heart to heart. Thank You!!! We don’t tell you that enough nor could we ever say it enough to you dear reader. You are special and appreciated around these parts! At last count there were over 500 peeps who…err 490+ peeps (If you want to tick people off make fun of Cardio Barre Burn…we’ll leave it at that!) who decided to follow the ramblings of CultFit HQ. We are humbled, truly! Thank You once again for giving up five precious seconds from your glorious eventful day to stop by and hang out for a bit!
Enough of this feel good contextual (Hmm- Contextual Fitness?!?) snuggle party stuff! It’s “Best Caption” wins something Thursday…
** And because YOU are really special…One more from a recent gathering.**
The Plan-
The Workout-
Rest Day…
Basically all we did here today consisted of the following:
Self Reiki and Leg Drains followed by a touch of meditation in the morning sun. Afternoon…Scouted out some new parks riding the old bike with the kiddos.
Notes:
Thanks once again!!! There is a tough program on tap for tomorrow…Be well and ENJOY!!!
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Posted: April 10, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: Authenticity, crossfit, exercise, fitness, health, intensity, kettlebell, life, marathon, meditation, motivation, natural, paleo, perspective, pilates, psycology, quotes, recovery, rest, running, simplicity, trail running, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 16 CommentsThis above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man-
Good morning dear reader! If you stopped by today to hang out and read about the wonderful breakfast we have planned and the totally awesome workout we will be doing later? Now is a good time to scurry along and live vicariously through another blog-o-thingy. Authenticity…We love your “cute” little pictures of the charming breakfast you put together just as much as the next peep. Is it really you? We’re saying it’s not and the sooner we all agree to this the sooner we can press on…
Our struggle with authenticity transcends fitness and it hit us yesterday reading through some interesting blogs. We read maybe fifty blogs yesterday (a small sample size) of peeps proclaiming their excellence during a normal Monday; one after another making life seem so great with big broad smiles, fantastic dinner ideas and bloviated opinions. As the “likes” started pouring in…We applauded their terrific Pottery Barn perfect lives. Five fleeting minutes later we were left doubting what we had just digested: Were these peeps real? How many of these people are there lurking on the inter-webz?
With the evolution of our hyper obsessed, media driven society. It truly is hard to believe anyone’s appearance is real anymore, on-line or in real life (is there even a difference now?). Call us crazy or old-fashioned but we like to believe that there are areas of our lives that will remain free from this growing trend in our society. In the end, “WE” understand it’s not really possible to enrich/enhance who we are as individuals without working on ourselves from the inside out, or without authentic hard work.
The Plan-
The Workout-
Hopefully we took a few notes from yesterday to apply to today’s program? Any problems tumbling around? Did you do it gracefully or like a desk/office jockey?
Trail Run/Walk/Bike/Swim…Until you feel you are warmed up enough, followed by:
Yesterday’s Warm Up is Today’s Workout:
Forward Rolls X 10
Backward Rolls X 10
Dive Rolls X 10
Quick Rolls (3 successive rolls as fast as possible) X 5
Forward Roll To Bear Crawl
Backward Roll To Crab Crawl
High Knees (running, 40m)
Butt Kicks (running, 40m)
High Knees (running drill, 40m)
Butt Kicks (running drill, 40m)
One Legged Hops (get up high, extend, 40m)
Two Legged Hops (get up high, extend, 40m)
Backpedal (backwards run, reaching back, 40m)…
Turn up the intensity knob a tad and get into the running drills actively! Followed by:
10 Minutes of Hanging Around…
Notes:
Life is not all about perfectly sliced and presented warm apple pie…ENJOY!!!
Monday 19 March 2012
Posted: March 19, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, exercise, fitness, helath, life, lifting, motivation, news, perspective, psycology, running, turkish get up, WOD 3 CommentsIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us-
Contrary to popular belief we do not receive our training information from the Uzbekistan Intelligence Agency. Rather we have a “unique” in-house training team that encompasses both males and females across a wide range of athletic abilities. Some compete others could care less about what happens during the day. A rather touchy topic came up recently during a run over this past weekend: If you had to explain minimalist running in eleven words how would you do it? No more no less…11 words got it!!!
To preface and set up this post for all the sensitive soy chai-tea latte types reading in their minimalist shoes this morning: We genuinely do not care about your shoes or running philosophy. If its 5:45 am on a beautiful partially sun lit trail?!? Carry on pounding your feet into the earth blasting Peaches and Cream in your iPod thingy. Yeah it is that quite in the morning…Think about that peeps! Are you this person?!? Carrying on then…
As a social experiment try this the next time you see a granola crunching/VFF peep out on the trail? Be prepared to walk away after the eleven word limit and by all means purge the non-sense they spill forward. Ready?
Last night we presented this very question to our own Bio-Mechanical Engineer Uncle Harry, a rather flamboyant older gentleman. Now understand you have to say this aloud as you do it? Understand that last bit? It truly is the most through 11 word definition of how to run in known existence:
“My foot should hit the gentle earth beneath me moving backwards!”
Can you believe that? Is it really that simple? “…I Just bought four books for my Kindle teaching me how to run and you guys did it in 11 words?”
Start poking holes naysayers although be advised if you are “new” here and easily get butt-sore…Say the above words over and over as you wander the aisles in Whole Foods looking for gluten-free flax-seed oil. Unless you are prepared to take on Uncle Harry in an elastic energy/forward momentum debate? We kindly recommended you walk away from this argument next time on the trail…at 5:45 in the AM…when we are chilling out…not listening to Peaches and Cream!!!
The Plan-
Today’s sign of the coming Apocalypse:
Please click on me dear yoga mom…
The Workout-
Are we still getting up before the Sun rises in the morning?
From our “Book Ends” series here…
30 Minute Walk/Trail Run…Walk and if you feel like running go for it, followed by:
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Perfect One Arm Presses (non-pressing arm is holding a plate, db, kb 10 lbs heavier than pressing weight)…Followed by:
10 Perfect Hinge Walk Out Push Ups (walk out once – 10 push ups – walk back)
10 Minutes Messing about with the Turkish Get Up (Not for time and not AMRAP! Carry over from last week and fiddle around with small muscle activation)
20 Minute Walk/Trail Run…
Notes:
FYI- Friday is going to be work up to a Heavy One Rep Each Arm TGU. Now though extensive research on our part we have unlocked two very different types of peeps: The one who will go nuts all week putting up big numbers only to stink up the joint Friday and the peeps who will refine technique and pattern the movement daily. We’ll see who shows up Friday won’t we? Be safe and most importantly today, ENJOY!!!
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