How bad do you want it? Those results you imagine. What are you doing to set yourself up to win? Guess what guys and gals, you don't have to love the work. Sometimes the work is hard. Sometimes it down right sucks. Sometimes you don't feel up to it. Sometimes it's all you can do [...]
CrossFit is a cult. You’ve heard those words said before, probably by someone you know that doesn’t do CrossFit. That’s because as soon as we drink the cool-aid, we want nothing more than to share it with others. CrossFit comes into our lives and for most, makes a huge impact. That’s right, it changes our [...]
Everyday, thousands of thoughts bounce around your head. Dictating your moment-to-moment emotions, the thoughts that stick in your mind will shape that story and dictate your actions. What story are you telling yourself? For most of you, it’s one that’s holding you back. You’re letting your own thoughts stifle your progress. “I’m just not the [...]
In our world, we hear the word's, "I can't," uttered hundreds of times each week. Those of you that know us, know we don't respond well to that phrase. Yet it happens all the time at the gym. We'll tell a new client to squat lower from a quarter squat position and the response, "I [...]
I know it's obvious but I want to discuss the difference between a telescope and a microscope... A telescope sees things far away and a microscope sees things very close up. In our training and fitness journey we need to use both, but not focus too much on one or the other. What do I [...]
“In the end, chronic disease is a deficiency syndrome. It is sedentation with malnutrition.” ~ Greg Glassman Found here... In Glassman’s article he separates the causes of death in the US into 5 categories that I believe was referred to as “The 5 Buckets of Death” in a CrossFit Instagram post. The buckets are as [...]
Question: are you better today than you were yesterday? Have you improved something about your life in the past 24 hours? Are you more efficient with your time at work, are you more present with your friends and family, are you moving closer to your goals? Here's an even more important question: is success [...]
The Stoics had a saying in latin: ta ehp'hemin, ta ouk eph'hemin What it means is literally this: "What is up to us, what is not up to us." They used it to remind themselves basically to control the things you can control. So much of worry and strife is worrying about things that are [...]
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