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2nd Day at The Coaches Prep Course

It is now Wednesday (3 days post of The Coaches Prep Course) and I feel already so much more empowered.  Now it could be me being around such a group of quality coaches that rubbed on me a ton or it’s that I brought back so many tools back.  The truth is…….both are true.

Ok, so on Day 2 we spent 3/4 of the day on programming.  If the day couldn’t have got better it totally did. We went over “keeping a constantly varied program”, “how to detect a biased or targeted program”, “how much strength WOD should be present” and “what type of trends have been going on in the CF community”.  All of this was so solid that I would have paid for just this day.  I said the same for Day 1 also so I guess I really got twice the value that I paid.  Let alone the time was so worth it.

I feel like I got more fired up being a coach and that this has made me a better coach.  Not only did I take away great tips on how to improve my coaching, I feel more balanced.  Being around Chris Spealler not only helped for coaching but I think overall.  The first thing I talked to him about when I had a chance to chat with him was how he kept a balanced life, as a husband, father, business owner, and a CrossFit athlete?  His answer was awesome.  He said he has a very supportive wife and they have made a decision together that this is what their life is to be right now.  That was just 3 hours into the seminar on a break and that conversation was another building block to the weekend.

So what do I feel now?
I feel like I have gotten another spark in me.  I absolutely love coaching but as anything there needs to be a balance.  Leaving Texas this weekend I got more love for what I do.  I have always loved coaching and have never lost it but I feel like I have more to give that I never thought I had.  I’m excited!

Friday Day!

Today was a great day to get in a few workouts.  When you have some down time might as well lift weights, right?  I did my first half of workouts this morning.  It felt good to lift heavier weight.  I don’t want to get in the habit of just doing metcon’s and no strengths so I make a point to get my strengths in no matter what. 
There are so many things that I want to do.  I want to get strong, follow CrossFit Endurance programming and get better at my metcon’s.  The great thing is I think I can do it all.  My strength won’t get too crazy but I want to have the capacity to throw around some heavy weight and be relatively light in weight myself. 
Goals:
Ultimately I would like to weight between 155-160 and be a solid wrecking machine.  Once I get my nutrition down to 100% awesome, I will be that wrecking machine!
Onward!
10am
Strength
Power Snatches
5/5/5/5
results: 95/105/115/115
Metcon
20 Back Squats, #225
40 Toes to Bar
60 KB Swing, #53
time-8:51
6pm
Metcon-
“JD”
5 rounds of:
12 deadlift, #155
9 Hang Cleans, #155
6 Push Jerks, #155
time-13:27 (20 seconds slower than my 1st time)

Crystals Good Bye Poem

Why Do I love Crossfit?
by Crystal Fink
I love Crossfit because it is the only time during the day that the only thing running through my mind is the number of reps I have completed
I love Crossfit because I am competing with myself to go hard, faster, stronger everytime I am there
I love Crossfit because now I can do pull-ups, power cleans, ring dips, and deadlifts and handstand pushups
I love Crossfit because it is a community of people holding you accountable to reach your goals
I love Crossfit because it challenges me physically, mentally and emotionally
I love Crossfit for the pride not only of myself but from my Coach
I love Crossfit because I am in the best shape I have ever been in
I love Crossfit because I will never again have smooth hands, but I will forever have strong calloused hands of an athlete
I love Crossfit because it is the only thing that I have ever done where I have bled, sweat, and felt like dying but never gave up
I love Crossfit for the feeling of nervousness you get right before a WOD
I love Crossfit because no matter what workout you are doing it is NEVER easy
I love Crossfit because I crave it everyday… yes I am addicted
I love Crossfit for those first 30 seconds after you have completed the WOD and you know that you have given all of yourself
I love Crossfit for the RX next to my name
I love Crossfit for the bonds that I have created with my Coaches, my fellow athletes and my students that will last forever no matter what Coast I am on.
Thank you for being a part of my Crossfit community. A special thanks Coach Scott for completely changing my life both on a fitness level and personal level. He introduced me to Crossfit and helped fuel my love and passion for it. I wouldn’t be here without you. Also a huge thanks to Corey for being a great coach as well as taking me on as a Coach at Mercer Island Crossfit. This last year has been amazing and I am going to miss everyone so much!
With love, respect, and gratitude,
Crystal

Rest Day and Nutritional Thinking

Stumbled across this video in my travels across the internet. This is some seriously aspiring stuff. Need to tighten up my diet some.
On the food end, I’m letting myself fail too much when the opportunity presents itself. I’m not even afraid of Fran or Nancy or Kelly, or any of those girls anymore even though they wipe me clean everytime. It’s making better decisions in the food area.  I have been so busy lately that I allow that to effect my nutrition. 
For June, I will be committing to clean eating no matter where I am at.  Regardless of what is on the menu, if there is no smart choices I will wait till I get home or start bringing food I know I will eat to potlucks, etc.
365 Day Of Exercising

Saturday with "Fran"

I’ve been following the main site here and there because as a coach I need an outside programming and that’s what CrossFit.com has done for me for over a year and a half. Anyways, I did back squats (5-5-5-5-5) yesterday and today’s WOD was “Fran” so that’s what I did. I finished up my training today and was able to squeeze in a short metcon. I’ve also noticed that I’ve been doing my strength workouts and long metcon workouts but I’ve been lacking in my short metcon, so I need to get those in the mix.
“Fran”
21-15-9
Thruster
Pull-ups
Time-2:52, PR!
(Old-2:58)
Yes! I freakin PR’d “Fran”! Last time I did her I stopped for a few seconds to breath and this time I didn’t stop at all. I dropped off the bar and saw 2:52 and I was psyched out my mind! The only people in the gym were myself and Priscilla Bell (Bell Curve Fitness). The music playing was “99 Problems”, Jay-Z and Pantera.
It was a great diverse atmosphere again. The gym was almost vacant, music in the background and and it was me against the barbell and pull-up bar.

Friday


(kelly, myself and adam after finishing my bday WOD, 5/10/10)
This was a pretty busy day for me and I was really lucky to squeeze in 2 workouts. The back squat felt heavy today but then again i did “Murph” (300 air squats) and “Badger” (180 squat cleans, #95) this week. But I knew I needed a heavy squat. I topped off at #255 (5 reps) which is relatively 85% of my 1 RM. I’d like my 5 RM back squat to be a bit heavier but I’m pretty happy right now.
The girls “Bday WOD” was pretty rough. Who designed that thing? (Oh yeah, I did)
Back Squat
5-5-5-5-5
225/235/245/255/255
“Kim and Crystal’s Bday WOD”
Complete 3 rounds of:
26 knees to elbows + 43 Double Unders
43 sprawls + OHS (#65)
Time-18:46

Wednesday

(PR’d my Deadlift @ #410)
Strength
Power Snatch
3-3-3-3-3
115/115/115/115/115
Metcon“Badger”
Complete 3 rounds:
30 squat clean, #95
30 pull-ups
800m run
Time-27:37
Today was an ok day for my power snatch.  I’m not so comfortable with the snatch.  I haven’t practiced a ton, I’m familar with the snatch but I could definitely get better.  For some reason I’m stuck at #115 right now, I’d love to play around with #135 but for a later time. 
I did “Badger” with Kelsey and Anthony today.  Anthony is getting ready to go to Marine Corp Bootcamp and this was one of those WOD’s that was on his bucket list, so today was the day to do it.  I could have sworn I’d never do this WOD again but how could I turn down a young mans dream and not do it with him, right?  I was in my 1set of squat cleans on the 10th rep and I already knew I was not going to be a fan of this workout.  I felt a ton slower than last time I did this but not every day is “your day”, am I right?
I look forward to my rest day and to play racquetball with J.D. over at the SJCC.

Birthday WOD

So today officially  marked my 32 years of existense on planet earth.  I couldn’t find a more reasonable thing to do but celebrate it with grueling workout, so I asked Corey to program today’s WOD.  Here is what he came up with.
16 Muscle-ups
32 Burpees
32 Double Unders
32 Push Press
32 Double Unders
32 Squat Cleans, #75
32 Double Unders
32 Snatches
32 Double Unders
32 Push-ups
16 Muscle-up
My time today was 19:18 but as I re-write this WOD I realized I didn’t do the Squat Cleans.  Ugh!  Doh!  You know what that means?  I’m redoing this at the 1pm class.  I better start fueling myself with proper fuel right now (11:28am).  It is official 1 hour before I was offically born/delivered 32 years ago.  That’s a deep thought. 
Ok, I will comment or repost my next time.  Those muscle-ups worked me, not so much the 1st round but totally the 2nd set.  I was doing it 1 rep at at a time.

Saturday

I knew that saturday was going to be a packed day and that I was going to be semi-celebrating my bday so I went in to SWCF a little early before my 1st session and I snuck in a strength WOD: Push Jerk

Strength:
Push Jerk
5/5/5/5/5
135/145/155/165/170

3/3/3
175/175/175

This was pretty tight because my old  1RM is 195 and I was Jerking 175 as 3 RM.  If I wasn’t pressed for time I would messed around with my 1RM but another time. 

Sunday:
Absolute rest day and hang out with my family.  Took the kids to the park with my sister (karebear) and then rested a bunch.

Tomorrow is my 32nd birthday and I’m siked to hit my “Birthday WOD”.  Corey programmed it.  I figure it wasn’t doing anyone a favor programming what I wanted in my bday workout, so I knew Core would step it up and he did. 

StoneWay CrossFit-"Looking Better Naked Challenge"

In May, StoneWay CrossFit will be holding its 1st Looking Better Naked Challenge. The challenge will be open to ALL StoneWay CrossFit and Fitness Lab members.

What is it and why?

The Looking Better Naked Challenge is all about living healthy, feeling better and looking awesome naked. This challenge is 6 weeks and is for EVERYONE! It’s strictly about changing your appearance and not based on pounds. The man and woman with the most transformed body will be determined the winner. Eventhough pounds are not the focus, you will see them drop, it will vary between 5-15lbs, some may also experience weight gain (in a good way). Either way, this will be a great way to kick start your looking better naked body!

What are the Rules?

1) Nutrition Seminar/Initial Photo Shoot- Saturday, May 1st @ 8am (before 9am class)
-Make up Photo- Monday, May 3rd- Saturday, May 8th

2) Contest last 6 weeks (May 3rd-June 19th)
3) Costs: $30
4) Each participant will have a before and after photo
-Frontal/side/back shot
-Men-shorts
-Women-shorts and sports bra/bikini

5) Must be present at ceremony on Saturday, June 19th to be eligible to win the contest
6) Person with the most improvement takes the prize!
7) Person with the most improvement by change of appearance takes the prize!
8) A person can participate in the contest and not have photo taken (but you cannot win any prizes)
9) Must have “After” photo taken between June 14th-17th

Will my photos end up on the StoneWay CrossFit site?

No photos will be posted on the internet or used for marketing without a participant’s permission. No photos will be on display at the gym. Only the participants will get to see the before and after photos

StoneWay CrossFit Nutrition Seminar

We will be meeting at 8am for our Nutrition Seminar along with posting our nutrition seminar on May 1st, 2010 online. In this seminar you will be given list of good foods and bad foods, Paleolithic and Zone diet information, meal planning tips, and a website you can post your food so other can see your foods and you can see others. You are not required to attend or watch this seminar but are highly encouraged. After the seminar we will be having a “before” photo session. Each week we will post a client we interviewed so they can share helpful tips for the journey.
How do I sign up?

You may sign up on the day of the photo shoot, but to help us prepare it would be helpful if you signed up via email (coachscott@stonewaycrossfit.com) ASAP! You may pay with cash or check on Saturday May 1st. Feel free to invite any friend or family members to join in on the fun. When you sign up, your name will be put on a list along with the best email address to reach you. We will send out all documents that will help you prepare and succeed in this challenge.

We will be encouraging everyone at StoneWay CrossFit to join the challenge. Any link or helpful tip we have, we will pass to you through your email. We will share people’s experiences throughout the challenge with personal interviews that will hopefully help and encourage you. Other gyms that have done similar challenges have found that the folks who log their food intake and share their log with others are the most successful in the challenge.

Obviously, a potentially huge cash prize would be awesome to win, but in reality, everyone who participates and completes the challenge will be a champion Nutrition is the foundation of being fitter and ultimately living a better life. The Looking Better Naked Challenge is a step in the right direction. Our goal is not to stop this “fashion” on eating good and living better after this 6 week challenge but to start a trend of clean living for life. If you eat well and clean you perform a lot better in everything you do!

End of School Party

June 19th will be the day we all meet up and determine the winner. Ceremony will begin @ 10am. We will all go over everyone’s before and after photos then we will vote. We will be voting on who has made the most dramatic change. Both Males and Females will be in different categories.