10.27.2008

1 Away ! 

W.O.D. 102708:
1/4 mile hill repeats
5 rounds
rest as needed

Momma W.O.D.
hill power walks

"Responsibility is the price of greatness"

10.24.2008

You carve em, we clean em!

W.O.D. 102408:
Partner Workout
1 mile run
150 db squat thrusters
1 mile run

Momma W.O.D.
50 squat thrusters

How many times have you used the excuses to rationalize your way out of success? Zig Ziegler calls the phenomenon "Stinkin' Thinkin" and warns us about "hardening of the atttitudes."

Wilma Rudolph is an example of how an undying belief in one-self can be the catalyst to overcoming problems. Polio took a tool on Wilma as a child. For six years she wore braces and could not walk, but she believed the braces would someday come off. The doctor was doubtful Wilma would ever walk correctly, but he encouraged her to exercise. Wilma didn't understand that she might be permanently handicapped. She thought that if a little exercise was good, a lot must be very good. When her parents were away, she would take off the braces and try again and again to walk unaided. When she was eleven, she told her doctor, "I have something to show you." Wilma removed her braces and walked across the room. 
She never put them on again.

Wilma wanted to play sports. After some false starts at basketball, she finally confronted her coach, saying "If you give me ten minutes a day, I will give you in return a world-class athlete." The coach laughed uncontrollably but agreed to give her the time. When basketball season was over, Wilma turned to track. By age 14 she was on the track team, and by sixteen she encouraged to prepare for the Olympics. Wilma won the bronze medal at the 1956 Olympics and three golds at the 1960 games!

Belief in yourself and hard work can make you a world-class individual in whatever it is you choose. What will you have to sacrifice? Can you overcome failure?

"What you get by achieving you goals is not as important
 as what you become by achieving you goals."


10.23.2008

Hard work paying off.

W.O.D. 102308:
800 meter run
50 dips
25 squats
800 meter run
25 dips
50 squats

Momma W.O.D.
30 minute walk/jog/run

Website:

"If you want to take the wind out of the sails, 
you shut the cow bells up and get some home runs. 
That will do it - - expect in Citizens Bank Park. 
If you hit enough there, they ring a bell. They ring the Liberty Bell."

10.22.2008

They suffer delightfully together.

W.O.D. 102208:
10 burpees
10 atomic situps
12 rounds

Momma W.O.D.
5 bottom to bottom squats > 30 sec holds
5 pushups > 1 minute high plank
5 rounds

Websites:


"Personally I want to win a championship."


10.21.2008

The calm before the storm.

W.O.D. 102108:
100 military presses
100 situps 
100 push presses

Momma W.O.D.
100 presses
100 alternating lunges

"I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. 
Through every dark night, there is a bright day after that. 
So no matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out, keep your head up..... and handle it"

10.20.2008

 Steinberg setting the pace.

W.O.D. 102008:
5k

Momma W.O.D.
30 minute p-walk/jog/run

Video:

Articles:


"The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them."



10.16.2008

Home of 2008 World Series!!!!

A congratulations to the Phillies for winning the NL pennant. 
America's pastime bonds family, friends, and the community. 
When I was a kid my father took me all over to see baseball games, to get autographs, and got me to love the Phillies. Take this time in October to reflect on how you got to learn to love the game and enjoy with the ones close to you.
Thanks Pop!

W.O.D. 101608:
Descending Repetition Ladder 13 -1 
 Pushups 
Burpees

Momma W.O.D.
Rings Rows
Perfect Pushups
Bottom to Bottom Squats
Alternating Lunges

A must watch video:

"Risk! Risk anything! 
Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. 
Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."

World Class Fitness in 100 Words

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: deadlift, clean, squat, presses, c&j, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climbs, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, , flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or Six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports . - - Coach Greg Glassman, Crossfit Founder.