August 8, 2008

Rest Day for me.

I copied this from againfaster.com, I think it’s great:

“Be beautiful”-

“If I were feeling a little more lawless, I’d gather all the copies of Cosmo and Seventeen, douse them in kerosene, and strike a match.  I’d throw in reams of print ads from Calvin Klein and watch with delight as Kate Moss’ stick-thin image was reduced to carbon.  I’d add copies of Shape and Runner’s World until the flames reached toward the heavens, and then I’d crank call the editorial desk at Muscle and Fitness until they stopped publishing pictures of women on steroids.
I’d get the master tapes of America’s Next Top Model and dub over them with “Nasty Girls”, broadcasting the results on every television station in America.  I’d skywrite “CrossFit.com” across the Boston skyline, and gently admonish the hoards of long distance runners trotting along the Charles River—with a bullhorn.
I’d take every woman with mass media-induced ideals of beauty, and I’d show them what it really means to be beautiful.  
Beautiful women are strong and powerful.  They are athletes, capable of every feat under the sun.  They have muscles, borne of hard work and sweat.  They gauge their self-worth through accomplishments, not by the numbers on the bathroom scale.  They understand that muscle weighs more than fat, and they love the fact that designer jeans don’t fit over their well-developed quads.  
They know that high repetitions using light weights is a path to mediocrity, and “toning” is a complete and utter myth.  They refuse to succumb to the marketers that prey on insecurity, leaving the pre-packaged diet dinners and fat-burning pills on the shelf to pass their expiration date.
Beautiful women train with intensity.  The derive self-image from the quality of their work and their ability to excel.  They don’t wear makeup to the gym, and they wouldn’t be caught dead with a vinyl pink dumbbell.  They move iron, they do pull-ups, they jump, sprint, punch, and kick, and they use the elliptical machine—as a place to hang their jump rope.  
They spend their weekends in sport, climbing walls, winning races, and running rivers.  They laugh as they sprint circles around the unschooled, turning the image-obsessed into benchwarmers.  Beautiful women don’t care if they’re soaked in sweat and covered in dirt, if their nails are chipped or their hair out of place.  They care only about quality of life.  
Beautiful women are happy, healthy, and strong, and they’re right there beside me, tossing conventional beauty on the ever-growing flames of what used to be. 
Be beautiful.” – Jon Gilson, againfaster.com

The females at CFJ do an awesome job, keep it up ladies!

HELEN – as perscribed!

3 Rounds for time of:

400 Meter run

21 Kettlebell swings @55 lbs

12 Pull-ups

10:13

Thanks Loren for ‘letting’ use the 55 kettle bell.

So this is officially my last day at CFJ for a while…
Thanks everyone for our support and enthusiasm. Thanks to Breck and Nicole for their dedicated leadership and coaching.
Good Luck everyone with their training and keep it up!

“Helen”
8:42

“Helen”

3 Rounds for time of:

400 Meter run

21 Kettlebell swings (used 55lb DB instead)
12 Pull-ups

Time: 11:44

“Helen”

3 rounds:

400 m run
21 Kettlebell swings (30lbs…5lbs more to go until I can hit it as Rx’d!)
12 Pull-ups
Time: 11:54

I think 11 hours between workouts isn’t quite enough. 🙂 Great job this morning everyone.

Danny, thanks for the article! It is fantastic!

Please, anyone interested read the first article posted on Robb Wolf’s website (Aug 6th)- “Too many Carbs”.. let me know what you think!

http://www.robbwolf.com/

52/m/190
Did CFWUx3

Did 150 thrusters w/45lbs. for time.
My time: 20:44

“Helen”
As Rx’d (used 55 lb dumbbell)
Time: 7:46 (PR)