Gainzzzzz are exciting. Not every day in the gym is exciting, or even a good day. And this coming from someone who loves the gym. The boring days are important too. Boring like this photo.
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Tag: mental
Gainzzzz (or, Thanks Power Athlete HQ!)
If progress motivates … I am at full motivation. About 2.5 months ago, I started working out at a “regular gym” (ie, not a CrossFit gym), following Power Athlete’s CrossFit Football Amateur programming pretty closely (my roommate is CFFB/Power Athlete staff and amazing at life/lifting, so this is helpful). The main reasons: I want to…
Finding Ease in Discomfort
Over at DailyHap.com today, I talk on camera about finding ease in discomfort. Here’s what you don’t see: we literally shot this video 12-15 times. Which means I sat in Pigeon Pose for VERY extended periods of time, on each side. It’s actually something I keep thinking I’ll do—just sit in Pigeon while I watch…
Yoga Questions
It’s Ashley Turner yoga boot camp week again (click here for my obsessions from last time) and it’s been a tough week so far. Not only is the physical practice incredibly challenging (more so than last time), but she’s raising questions … again. All of which is awesome, of course. What are you rushing toward?…
Around the Fitness Horn: Dang it’s been awhile
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a roundup, but some dang good stuff came out in the past few days. Check it: The always-awesome Sage Burgener takes on CrossFit psychology. Love love love. I’m lucky enough to live in Nature’s Garage Gym, so I get to be outside, playing, and mastering bodyweight exercises, all the…
Sports Psych Update
I withdrew from the Fittest Games. My back/SI joint stopped hurting. I did all the right things (treatment, standing, icing, yoga), but I also worked through the conflict. Naysayers can say it was physical, believers can say it was mental. It was probably a combination of both. Like most things. There is no black and…
Mental Health WOD: Do Nothing for 2 Minutes
Have you guys seen this site yet? How awesome is this? http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/ Meditation at the computer. Get it where you can!
Breakthroughs
People in the CrossFit community talk a lot about breaking through certain fears. Being upside down, lifting heavy weight, whatever. I have never been scared of those things. I can’t do a handstand pushup, but it’s not fear, it’s strength (lack thereof). So I don’t get those “breakthroughs.” But in skiing I face a lot…
Around the Fitness Horn: Mental Toughness
What is Mental Toughness? That Burgener family has got it going on, they are some smart cookies. The letter Sage posted from her brother really made me think: am I committed to things that I want to be committed to? My fave line from the whole thing: they decided it was what they wanted, and…
Filthy Fifty
I’ve only attempted the Filthy Fifty one other time, and didn’t finish before our 30-minute cutoff. Today, after FIVE hours of skiing (on the blues, of course, Lisa!) I said to That Ripped Guy of Mine(TM): “If it’s a long metcon, I’m not doing it,” … because I’m going to drive the 25 minutes to…