Wednesday 21 March 2012
Posted: March 21, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, college hockey, exercise, fitness, health, hockey, motivation, ncaa, perspective, running, yoga 4 CommentsRemember, you’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done-
**we are painting with a broad brush stroke today so you may want to put on your Random Fitness spectacles to read today’s post**
Today’s sign of the Apocalypse:
Sad thing is dear reader: We received over 650+ emails yesterday defending the “Girlfriend” picture…Chew on that for a moment.
How many times do you encounter the following streams of mind cluttering rubbish during the day? Do this not that, try this it worked for me, that’s too much, you are doing way too little in your life. Don’t worry: 98.7% of our posts are not like the ones you read every so often…We do need to have a chat about happiness today though. We spoke about vanity some time ago, so if you are “vain” click away now. Not long after that we wrote about: Beating yourself up to run a 4 hr marathon, if that’s you click away. We tend to stay away from diet due to the fact its uniquely personal, if you feel your diet is superior? Click away now…Love and happiness today. “Should we not also talk about Santosha?” Hmm, good point! Hell lets toss it in here as well…a nice frothy mix of love, happiness and contentment!
Wise man once said “There are two kinds of unhappiness”
1. Not getting what you want.
2. Getting what you want.
(Big High-Five to the peep who can name that “Man”)
Whew, where were we? There are many, many different directions to take this conversation today although let’s agree now on one guiding principle: You alone are complete. How many times during the day do you click the “Like” button adding a bit more confusion to your daily intake? That’s what we feared…Do any of these sound familiar as you look in the steamy mirror this morning? Restless dissatisfaction, Pressure to be exceptional, Unrealistic achievement (Yup that’s you Mr. 4+hr marathon dude!), Feelings of superiority or inferiority, or both, Excessive fears of being humiliated, Obsessive self-focus.
Without going on or another 1000+ words…Please take away after reading this kind morning: That caring, being happy in your body and a sense of humility go a long way.
Please, honestly take a moment to read this sometime today: Are We as Bad as the Worst Thing We’ve Done?
We’re not the experts here, remember?
The Plan-
The Real March Madness kicks off this weekend not the water downed invite everyone to the show crap you have been watching for the past week! Rule out the teams from Michigan to win solely on principle. Let’s take our eyes out east for a moment to Union College and Cornell: True institutes of higher education! What a majestic State New York is! Honestly, any other team could win as long as it’s not Michigan, Western Michigan, Michigan State or any state that borders Michigan!!!
That completes our D1 Hockey coverage for the year, thanks for reading.
The Workout-
Warm Up until you have developed a nice lather…followed by an old favorite of ours here:
Hollow Rocks…30 minutes or so worth! Yeah that really is The Workout today…Either you will feel horribly uncomfortable later in the day or you will feel quite fine and dandy? One thing is for certain: You just don’t flop on the floor and do these peeps! It’s a gentle process of small muscle recruitment and activation…4 Peeps reading know why this is important? Are you one of them?
Notes:
We are going to be updating the links stuff here soon. If you have any solid-proven-goal oriented program links you would like to add by all means pipe up and send them in! The program today is a killer, no joking about it! Be safe and 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!!!
Friday 16 March 2012
Posted: March 16, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: 10k, 5k, exercise, f1, fitness, health, marathon, march madness, meditation, NASA, running, space, swimming, wellness, yoga 4 CommentsThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes-
Have you ever witnessed something that makes you stop right in your tracks and watch in awe? Something truly amazing, something you have probably never seen before? We had one of these moments last night and we would like to share it with you this morning…Honestly stop whatever is occupying you at this moment and let yourself be amazed for eight minutes!
We had originally planned to beat some topic to death today…let this video sink in for a moment, life is truly amazing!!!
Earlier in the week we spoke about (albeit briefly) Changing the Definition of Fitness. Fitness can be anything you like, so if wandered over here and made it this far? Change fitness to…pixie dust if you like.
It truly is important to note that we are forever changing, right now as an example; you just changed. Each and every time you beat yourself up for going through the same old thing again chances are the experience is more nuanced this time around, hopefully with more insight then you had before. This new experience is always changing…Each and every pico second of the day.
What do we expect you to take away each time this happens? Please take note that there are days when you may not want to exercise, eat right, go train, whatever . This is not the end of the world and we know for a fact that you will get out and exercise again! This is what we like to call Changing the Definition of Fitness and getting back to your true self, back to your goals, and back to another opportunity to redefine them in a more nuanced and personal manner.
The Plan-
Perspective: Either this is the best news in the world or the worst? Where do you stand?!? LINK
The Workout-
Pulled from our “Have a smile on your face” series here at CultFit HQ:
We have written ad nauseam about performing or engaging in a program that you thoroughly enjoy. If you feel inclined go back and re-read all 290 or so posts that point this out. So on that note:
Not for time…
One Hour Swimming rinse off and followed by:
Deep meditative yoga…you know where we stand on yoga so this is not the crap you do down at YogaMed or film yourself in the living room in tight Lululemon attire to post on MeTube later…
15 Minutes of Leg Drains and 15 Minutes of Inversions
Notes:
Life is more important than just working out. Watching your kids play, witnessing a magical moment in life…It’s moments like these where we need to step back and ENJOY who we are and where we are. Have a great weekend watching the Australian GP and be sure to cheer for CultFit Racing Team member: Lewis Hamilton! Be safe and ENJOY!!!
Thursday 15 March 2012
Posted: March 15, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, exercise, fitness, fun, health, perspective, recovery, rest, running, WOD 6 CommentsAll the people strain their ears and eyes:The Sage only smiles like an amused infant-
Ahhh can you believe how nice it is outside right now at precisely this moment in time? Our apologies if you are still in bed reading on your new iPad…Maybe a spoiler alert would have been nice? Yup its Thursday once again here at the pristine confines of CultFit HQ and that could only mean one thing, rest! No…not that kind of rest. There is no three on one-off rubbish around here although active rest could be applied at times (if playing on a play ground fits into your definition?). Our rest is more intimate and personal rather than a time to recharge our vanity fuel cells like most of you do on your rest days. Who cares moot point in our book and no sense fretting over it…
New Feature for Thursday’s!!! Best caption to the pic below wins something (don’t ask us what that something may be) and will be judged via comments and amongst your blog-o-sphere peers…Without further delay:
The Plan-
Take the high road/easy argument path if you like although keep in mind that “yes” the video is funny…although something really good is going on here and some of the movements? Well let’s just say “SOME PEOPLE” out there on the inter-webz think they are extremely intuitive and cutting edge in their WOD errr program design…
The Workout-
Rest Day or if you are really itching to do something…Go for a walk.
Notes:
Rest up mates and ENJOY!!!
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Posted: March 13, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: exercise, fitness, health, lifting, motivation, movement, perspective, running, swimming, yoga 2 CommentsSpeech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both-
Review from yesterdays post:
Is Nicolas Cage a good actor?
Is blindly following a recommendation from a celebrity via Twitter a prudent move?
Threading this together with one of our ongoing themes here: Is following a Random Fitness recommendation a healthy long-term decision?
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse:
Charge your iThingy while breathing (<—-Once you click this link you will not be able to un-see the horror that lies before you!)
The words “Fitness and Health et al” are intimately intertwined in our culture. Agree or disagree? Post a comment after reading further…”So like ugh where are you dudes going with all this?” As more and more Random Fitness peeps begin to integrate Fitness/Health routines there are some that are not integrative in the least. To dig a bit deeper this morning: Integrative means you’re integrating the practice of a wide variety of fitness programs in the hope of making yourself healthy and whole.
You can calm down now, we are not trying to pooh-pooh the value of your program (Remember that is an EASY ARGUMENT to make). Basically we are proposing to you a definition of Fitness/Health that incorporates the physical body, spirituality and a sense of overall well-being.
Quick Talking Points:
When did the end result outweigh the process? We need to understand that we simply do not wake up in harmony and balance. There are a million ways to go about discussing this…Would it be safe to say that our quest is not linear, or point to point? And that we are prone to going through periods of re-doing previous programs and routines? Now what would happen if we tried to join these last two thoughts together?
The Plan-
One of the main problems facing us is that we believe that we should be able to accomplish something without actually putting in any effort.
The Workout-
Warm Up into a healthy lather this morning and carry on with the following:
150 Heavy Hard Style KB Swings (keep these snappy today – feel free to break them up into digestible bits – nail down solid form!)
30 second Pull Up Hang (let go of all stress and lengthen out) followed by:
25 Perfect Push Ups (focus on breathing and allowing said breath to release you from the bottom)
About four times is good enough for the above two movements
Finish up today with the following:
15-20 Minutes performing a Turkish Get Up with no weight!!!
Here’s the trick: Find something round and odd to use instead. A six-inch diameter Mickey Mouse bouncy ball you bought for the kiddos a while back works. We will even allow one of those five-pound exercise balls. You need to be able to palm it, not grip it with your finger tips! Focus your eyes through your palm and watch what happens…Tough little albóndiga with a 2 pood kb performing the TGU but you just dropped a Mickey Mouse ball on your head?!? How do you feel now tough guy?
Notes:
We are trying to pull four or five different theories/thoughts/anything together above in our post…always easy to chat about over a few pints although tough to iron out in a blog post. Patience is advised and as always feel free to chime in to add to our dialog today! Most importantly have fun today and be prepared to be humbled doing the TGU’s, ENJOY!!!
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