This is why you train...

This is a great blog post to bring everything into perspective. Some of us train to stay in shape, some of us train to finish a marathon, some of us train to do an Ironman but most importantly we all train for LIFE..

http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6028319520018578041

Slacker

WOD Announcment. Stop reading if you don’t want to know today’s WOD.

I really need to be better at this. I know most of everyone is bad at keeping these blogs up. I think of things all day, that I should post and then i think to myself. that isnt interesting noone wants to read about that. so I don’t do anything.

Well be prepared to be bored somedays. I plan to post more. I always have random thoughts going through my head, so might as well let others know. Plus I follow a lot of other blogs that I find very interesting. So I will share links to the post as well.

Today’s WOD
7 deadlifts (175#)
14 Box Jumps
21 Double Unders
12min AMRAP

I do believe the month long food/treat binge is catching up. I wasn’t moving too fast this morning. About a month ago, I popped/tweaked my back doing deadlifts, so I have been laying off the heavy deadlifts. It is feeling better now, but I haven’t done any strength work for deadlifts, so I don’t want to start with heavy deadlifts in a WOD. So I did today’s WOD at 135#. And surprisingly (in a bad way) that felt really heavy. Back felt fine. I do find myself thinking about it every single lift. Its like I’m waiting to fell something wrong. Thank goodness I’m not though.

Not doing a WOD as RX’d messes with my mind. I get bummed. So knowing that I was 40# off the RX’d weight, I felt like a loser. Which in turned made me not care so much about the WOD all together. Box Jumps – I did all as jumps (no steups) but there was no speed involved and then the double unders. I was taking longer breaks then needed when I would mess up.

CrossFit – always a mental battle just as much as a physical one.

Are you going on Vacation and thinking of relaxing your diet?

This is a great post from Melissa that went to Prague and decided to relax her diet and take a small break from CrossFit while on vacation. See how that turns out for her.


http://theclothesmakethegirl.blogspot.com/2010/10/valuable-lessons-learned.html

Motivating, Inspirational, Overwhelming, Fantastic, Emotional

These are the words I use to describe the 2010 CrossFit Games in Carson, CA.

A group, otherwise known as THE Vic Zachary entourage, flew to Long Beach CA to push our very own hometown hero. In the process of cheering him on and watching the other heats you get connected with others on the field. You start pushing people you have never heard of and become connected in each WOD they participate in. You see something in them and you want to push them and motivate them to keep moving.
Last year when I went to the Games to spectate I had been doing CrossFit for 9 months. I had read every article on the Journal and most blogs written by athletes. I was a CrossFit stalker and when seeing everyone at the Games it felt like I was seeing celebrities just passing right by me.

Somewhere between last year’s Game and this year’s I lost the pizzazz of it all. I was going fully to support Vic (and to watch Annie T. kick those muscle-up asses this year). I hadn’t kept up with anything or anybody. Even in my own CrossFit I had went from 5 days a week to 2. I was losing focus but yet knew I still enjoyed it and didn’t want to quit.

2010 Games comes along and I’m back. Those WODs were intense. I never wished I was the one doing them but I loved watching every minute. When closing ceremonies were over and we were walking out of the Home Depot Center, I was sad it was all over. I wanted more.

I’m ready for 2011 Games. I’m ready to get back into my own workouts. I’m excited, motivated, inspired. I will be back in 12 months supporting our favorite CrossFitter, Vic Zachary along with a few more that I hope make it along with him. Bring it Bayou City CrossFit and Bring it Houston, Lets represent.