I had a bit of a challenging weekend. I have been chatting with the Coach's of the Mustangs Football team about some off season conditioining for the players. How awesome would it be to get some of these younger guys to buy into CrossFit? How much would there performance improve? Don't we all wish we had started this at 16 years old? Well it turns out the second I walked off the field a mother, with no education or background in health and wellness, starting bashing CrossFit. Why did she wait until I was off the feild to do this? Because my ass is nicer than hers, thats why. I feel at times I spend more time defending CrossFit rather than coaching CrossFit. I could go on for days as to why CrossFit has changed my life, why I belive in it and why these mis conceptions are a load of BS, but instead I will lead by example, I will hold true to what I belive in and I will continue to educate myself so I can help each one of you reach your true potential. To help you move the way we were intended to, and to reach further than you ever thought possible. I do need your help thogh, I need our CFPC community to do the same. I understand that what I am asking is not easy, keep your cool when someone bashes what we feel so strongly about? Not easy! Take the high road, lead by example, see it though,improve your front rack position, work hard, do" Fran"... its all hard! But CrossFitter's are a different breed. We face the unkown, we work hard even when we don't want to, we are not afraid of failure and we do it as a COMMUNITY. Why people have a hate on for CrossFit I will never understand. like the snatch, it is going to be a long hard battle. What we are facing in our very behind the times small town, Vancouver faced 5 years ago and California faced it 10 years ago. You see, CrossFit is not that new, we just live in a town that can be a little closed minded and dare I say un-educated at times ( I am going to be in mega trouble for that last statement) My Coach is currently at the Tiranus Titan Challenge this weekend watching his athletes kick some major butt. I am proud to have him as a coach. When I speak to him about these issues he tells me to shut up and re focus. Instead of wasting any more time fretting about what people think of CrossFit I, along with at least 100,000 other people on the planet, am heading into the gym to blow off some steam. To work on some things I suck at, and to sweat it out!
For tomorrow we will be doing the first workout of the Taranis Titan Challenge that took place this past weekend.
Prep
Lat smash
Assigned mobilty work- this will differ from person to person
2x
21 Doubles
15 SDHP with broomstick
9 shoulder to o.h
Strength
5x5 Bent row - AHAP
Conditioning
21-15-9
SDHP 65/95
Shoulder to overhead
Pull ups
Rest Exactly 5 min then;
21-15-9
Burpees
Double unders
Air squat
* Score is the time it took to complete both workouts including rest time
Recovery
Alexander shoulder stretch on wall
wall slides
pigeon
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