A Simple Story
Posted: November 30, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: 5k, blogging, crossfit, exercise, family, fitness, happiness, health, hipster, HKC, holidays, hope, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, nature, paleo, passion, pilates, rest, running, TGU, trail running, turkish get up, Walk, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 8 CommentsYou only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough-
Daily simple pleasures like sleeping in, reading a book in bed and getting the kids off to school in one piece are central to our “Balanced Lives“. For many, there’s nothing like watching a family of deer play joyfully in a field while out on a run, picking an apple from a farmers orchard during a long ride or holding a loved one close after a long week. These simple moments keep us stimulated, connected and grounded.
When was the last time you took a moment to yourself?
The Plan-
The Workout-
Let’s take a few moments to Warm Up (as you see fit) into a pore cleansing, flowing mass of sweat.
“I totally blasted my tri’s and chest today mate … Tore the gym up yo!” Try not to be this Guy or Gal peeps.
How do we this you may be asking, simple …
On the minute for 40 Minutes:
1 Proper HKC Style TGU (each arm)
**Google it and look ’em up! Cuddle, Press, Shoe … If you are going to muck about and devote only a marginal effort today? You might as well kick your VitaCoco bottle down the road for 40 minutes.**
Notes:
We are all family here and we wouldn’t want it any other way. Take care this weekend … ENJOY!!!
Day and Night
Posted: October 25, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: Canada, crossfit, culture, exercise, faith, fitness, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, jogging, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, mental health, motivation, NHL, paleo, pilates, recovery, rest, running, Style, trail running, voting, Walk, walking, whole foods, WOD, writing, yoga 7 CommentsGet out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more-
Sadly, we have resorted to drastic measures peeps. Normally we like to keep it light and fluffy on Thursdays, always have and always will, maybe?!? The proverbial line in the sand has been drawn, until the NHL starts playing again? We will be showing cheeky Canadian videos on Thursday mornings … Sorry.
**Be forewarned! It’s all downhill from here, Strange Brew and Degrassi Junior High vid’s are on tap for next week.**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsxV49pmnL8
The Plan-
The Workout-
Rest Day … A brisk Walk and some Leg Drains. Simple.
Who knows? Maybe you and your ironic self-will make it on Style Blaster. <—To be cool before it’s cool? Click Me!!!
Notes:
It certainty has been a strange week so far and “Thank You” to each and every one of you taking the time out of your busy lives to read today. Take care and ENJOY!!!
You Don’t Make Me Sorry
Posted: October 24, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, blogs, crossfit, exercise, fitness, freshly pressed, happiness, health, hipster, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, paleo, perspective, pilates, running, trail running, Walk, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 7 Comments… If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.
Bettie Eadie
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: Gucci On Wheels
**Warning science content ahead!?!**
Place a ball on the desk in front of you and let it sit there, roll back in your chair and watch for a few moments. Nothing happened, shocking we know!
Now reach in the centre drawer and pull out some sticky notes and a pen. Write one of the following words/thoughts on the top half of each note:
Life, Yoga, Love, Work, Running, Lifting, Diet, Meditation, Pilates, Sex, Donuts … You get the point. Fold them in half and place them randomly on your desk in front of you.
Each one of us has our own unique habits, just like the ball will keep sitting there unless new outside influences act upon it.
Now gently tap the ball towards one of your notes, any which one.
The Plan-
The Workout-
Form, Flow and Grace … Find balance and harmony in a refreshing Sun Salutation Series. Followed by:
A Plank Medley consisting of the following: High Plank, Low Plank, Glute Bridge, One Arm Side Plank (each side), Forearm Plank, Side Plank (elbow bridge).
**All Planks will start with a Hinge Walk Out. This is vitally important peeps, think about it?!? When was the last time you bent over backwards? Hinged backwards? Oh, the last time you raised your hips from the floor into a Plank position. Your precious little back and hips will thank you later … **
Notes:
The goal of our exercise above is to come as close to our note without knocking it over, to gently ease up to it. Kinda like starting a new exercise program … Ease into it, slowly and with conviction. Be well today and ENJOY!!!
I Could Be Re-Born
Posted: October 17, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, exercise, fitness, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, intensity, jogging, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, paleo, perspective, pilates, running, trail running, Walk, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 16 CommentsAll men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God-
… I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad …
Today’s sign of the Apocalypse: Zumba and Prostitution
You, yeah you over there in your velvety soft Love Pink Jammies. You are the only one who can stand up for your life! When you wake up in the morning and walk across the cold bathroom floor to shower? YOU are honoring your commitment to following through on your intentions … Unless you like stinking up the joint all day long? When you slowly begin to put one foot in front of the other beginning a refreshing Trail Run? When you choose to pack a lunch to work instead of ordering the #2 from the local kabob shop? You and you alone are making your values a priority in your life.
Living a life full of purpose is not something you trip over and discover at the gym. Living a life of purpose is something you gently create by turning your otherwise benign actions into purposeful actions that make a direct impact on your life (taking a shower) … Rinse and Repeat peeps into a thick hardy lather.
The Plan-
The Workout-
Let’s start the day with a flowing Sun Salutation Series followed by:
Perfect Push Up – WAR!!!
Using a deck of standard playing cards, challenge your best mate (or a clueless X-Fit albóndiga) to a push up contest. Both of you turn over a card, If you have the higher card? Rest, while your mate performs the loosing number of Perfect Push Ups. Joker=20, Ace=15, King=13, Queen=12, Jack=11 and so forth on down the line. Go back and forth until you get too tired.
**This also works rather well with any other movements we do here.**
Notes:
Would you start to perform the workouts if we called them by a different name? What if we named them: Extreme/Elite/Warrior/X-Fit WAD … would you do them now?!? Contrary to public opinion: You can have FUN while developing NURTURING habits!
Revisit the last three Workout peeps and leave your ELITE competitive spirit at the door … ENJOY!!!
**In all reality these are solid, repeat SOLID pilates programs.**
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Posted: October 12, 2012 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, crossfit, exercise, fitness, freshly pressed, gluten free, health, hipster, intensity, jogging, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, lust, marathon, motivation, normal, paleo, passion, pilates, recovery, trail running, Walk, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 32 CommentsNobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal-
If there’s one thing about CultFit readers that really stands out: None of us can be considered Normal.
Have you ever been out on a group run (anything else) and suddenly came up limp due to cramps or another issue? Then had one of your friends say, ” Is this normal for you chump?!?“
What may be Normal and unique to you is considerably different from another persons definition of Normal. This is blatantly obvious stuff here peeps yet we forget about it each time we close our eyes at night!
If you hang around or associate yourself with someone who is obsessed with their running times, weight loss, weight being used, shoe size, IQ (all solid examples)? The next time they start lamenting and complaining about not being able to put up Normal numbers … Ask this question and duck for cover:
“Maybe this is your new normal dude?!?“
Put the weapon down Dear Reader and think about what we are presenting to you for one fleeting moment: Our definition of Normal is changing all the time. A marriage here and a couple of kiddos there, suddenly you’re on the lovely side of 37. Last year you had a few surgeries and a few too many beers … You’re not the same person you were when you last defined Normal for yourself.
We spend infinite amounts of energy in the pursuit of getting back to Normal <— This friends: Keeps each and every one of us from moving —> Forward in our lives.
The Plan-
The Workout-
You know that feeling, when you’re lying alone in your warm bed, staring at the ceiling? It’s early morning, the sun is freshly up, beginning to shine on you through the windows. Everything is beautiful yet something is amiss?!?
A hearty Trail Run followed by:
30 Heavy Goblet Squats
100m Sprint
25 Heavy Goblet Squats
100m Sprint
20 Heavy Goblet Squats
100m Sprint
15 Heavy Goblet Squats
100m Sprint 10 Heavy Goblet Squats
100m Sprint
**Feel free to sub in: Swings, Push Press, Perfect Push Ups, Piston Press in lieu of the Goblet Squats.**
Notes:
Normal is a horrible word, be unique, be You! Have a great weekend peeps … ENJOY!!!
CultFit 