Daily Workout (Blog)

Workout of the Day 12 Minute EMOM:  1 "Bear Complex" (225/155) Bear complex = 1 power clean + 1 front squat + 1 Jerk + 1 back Squat + 1 Jerk

Choose not to be harmed- and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed - and you haven’t been. -Marcus Aurelius   Rubin “Hurricane” carter, a top contender for the middleweight title, at the height of his boxing career in the mid 1960s, was wrongly accused of triple homicide. He went on trial, and a biased, bogus verdict followed: 3 life sentences. Carter reported to prison in an expensive, tailored suit, wearing a $5000 diamond ring and a gold watch. And so, waiting in line to be entered into the general inmate population, he asked to speak to someone in charge. ...

Overcoming obstacles “Perception” What is perception? It’s how we see and understand what occurs around us—and what we decide those events will mean.  Our perceptions can be a source of strength or of great weakness.  If we are emotional, subjective and short sighted, we only add to our troubles.  To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the work around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limiter passions and their control over our lives. It takes skill and discipline to bat away the pests of bad perceptions, to separate reliable signals from deceptive ones, to filter out prejudice, expectation,...

Workout of the Day 2 Rounds for time:  1000m run 50 wallballs (20/16)

Increase your pull-up strength and power with this simple program.  Suck at pull-ups? Work them with frequent training. Start every workout with a total of 20 pull-ups (strict) done in as little time as possible using "mini-sets" of half your current max effort. If you cannot do more than 1 strict pull-up at a time then use a small assistance band to allow you to do several at a time. Then measure your max effort set using that same band. Use a clock to track how long it takes to complete the 20 reps and try to beat that time...