"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Warm up
Strength/Skill
100 Back Squats @ 135#
Do this in the least amount of sets as possible
WOD
10 rounds for time:
5 Dead Lifts @ 225#
10 Knees to Elbow
15 Push Ups
Rest 3+ hours
Endurance
"Death by 10"
Run 10 meters on the min. Every minute, add 10 meters.
set up 2 cones 10 meters a part, and add one return trip each minute on the minute add 10 meters each round until you can no longer continue.
SPIRIT
No matter how much you try and deny or avoid it, we are not meant to be here forever.
Worrying about death is like worrying about the sun rising tomorrow, it's going to happen.
A quote from the movie 'Fight Club' sums it up for me, "you need to know, not fear, but know that one day you are going to die."
For most people this is a scary, touchy subject. And they may see this post as negative.
I simply don't see it that way. Not until we accept that we do not have "all the time in the world" can we begin to fully live.
Every time I read about a big mountain skier, base jumper, mountain climber or any other extreme athlete that has died while doing their sport, I think, wow they died doing what they loved. Sure most of the time it happens too soon with these guys and girls but it's not tragic.
They knew the risks that were involved with what they did. But the love and passion of it trumped those risks.
One of my all time favorite quotes;
"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest ?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is no use'. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for."
-George Leigh Mallory
That sums me up. I am constantly asking myself, "on my last day, will this matter?"
Your last day on Earth are you going to think to yourself, 'I wish I had done this or that' or 'What a bad ass ride that was!'
It's your choice. Risk, Love, Seek Adventure everyday!
Whatever your Mount Everest may be, literally or figuratively, GO GET IT!
SPIRIT
Life is meant to be an adventure. Life is meant to have risks.“Wanted. Men for hazardous journey. Low wages. Bitter cold. Long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in the event of success.”
Ernest Shackleton’s 1907 ad in London’s Times, recruiting a crew to sail with him on his exploration of the South Pole
No matter how much you try and deny or avoid it, we are not meant to be here forever.
Worrying about death is like worrying about the sun rising tomorrow, it's going to happen.
A quote from the movie 'Fight Club' sums it up for me, "you need to know, not fear, but know that one day you are going to die."
For most people this is a scary, touchy subject. And they may see this post as negative.
I simply don't see it that way. Not until we accept that we do not have "all the time in the world" can we begin to fully live.
Every time I read about a big mountain skier, base jumper, mountain climber or any other extreme athlete that has died while doing their sport, I think, wow they died doing what they loved. Sure most of the time it happens too soon with these guys and girls but it's not tragic.
They knew the risks that were involved with what they did. But the love and passion of it trumped those risks.
One of my all time favorite quotes;
"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest ?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is no use'. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for."
-George Leigh Mallory
That sums me up. I am constantly asking myself, "on my last day, will this matter?"
Your last day on Earth are you going to think to yourself, 'I wish I had done this or that' or 'What a bad ass ride that was!'
It's your choice. Risk, Love, Seek Adventure everyday!
Whatever your Mount Everest may be, literally or figuratively, GO GET IT!
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