You Want Training Inspiration.. Here it is

In the literally half a sec that I've decided to blog about this topic I've come up with two types of inspiration. There are those that jerk the tear strings..Motivating you though triumph over a disability or a life struggle. That ain't the crap I'm talking about right now.

What I'm talking about are those things that you see with amazement and say "Holy Sh!t, did you see that? That's amazing" The type of stuff that puts you right in your place in the scheme of whatever your talking about (strenght and crossfit in the case of this blog) and helps you understand that relative to someone else YOU SUCK!

But, the kind of thing that, for a personality like mine, drives me to want to excel, get better, improve, set goals, train harder.

To say- I WANT TO DO THAT, I WANT TO BE LIKE THAT

Watch this YouTube video from a Japanese show called Ninja Warrior.. If it doesn't inspire you in the quest for fitness, well, in the words of the Obama's #1 pal Rahm Emanual "Your retarded".

NINJA WARRIOR- Click Here

if the link doesn't work for you here is the youtube video address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAxsFgFY0lM

Messin' With Your Head

I'm sitting here feeling pretty sore, but in a good way and I started thinking that maybe I have something worth blogging about so here it it.. Sit down and shut up! ;)

Some shit is just hard.. Sometimes its hard because.. IT JUST IS.. Like picking up 500 pounds, handcuffing a fat dude with standard size cuffs, watching Brokeback Mountain (HELL NO I Didn't Even Try), listening to your spouse, listening to your kids, listening to you boss, listening to Obama (I'm just sayin)..

Anyway, some things are just hard by their nature.. Others are hard because your mind tells you they are. You probably have some experience in the past with a stimulant that resulted in a negative perception that you now view the stimulant though every time you see it.. (Does that make any sense?).. Eating asparagus is a great example for me.. Ate it once and hurled now every time I see it.. Well.. Its just nasty shit..

The point I'm trying to get to is the past two days I've done some WODs that in my mind were really hard to push through, but in actuality they were not all that bad and that pushing through that "mind fUk" is worth it.

It started with a wod I saw on CF Football, 5 rounds for time of :315# Deadlift x 7 and Double Unders x 21. Now, my pr on the deadlift is 435# so 315# should be do able but for some reason knowing the number of reps I was going to have to do really messed with me. It made me doubt myself and my abilities to do it. So, I almost didn't.. But, then I figured what the hell, don't be a puss.. I did it yesterday and my time was 13+ minutes.. I did it! As RX'd and with full range of motion.. It was hard don't get me wrong. But it wasn't what my mind had made it out to be..And I almost didn't know that because I was "scared" of it so to speak..

It happened again today when I was doing a metcon workout off of Freddy C.'s blog.. It was 3 Rounds of Box Jumps x 8, 135# Push Press x 6, Pull ups x 5, and 70# Kettlebell swing x 3 for 4 cycles (resting 3 minutes between each cycle).. Anyway, I finished the first cycle and starting asking myself if I should scale it back to 3 cycles.. Again, doubting myself.. Yet, I pushed through and finished the work as RX'd..All 4 cycles..

So, what have I learned and why am I blogging it.. I've said it before somewhere else or on a similar issue: The feeling of just pushing through when you don't think you can is really fabulous and I have no doubt that confidence that you build when crossfitting transcends into other areas..

Walk through it..It might not be as bad as you thought.. But, then again it might! Man up!