Rest

after 5 weeks of having a messed up shoulder, i decided i would take this whole week off from workouts and just rest and recover. i was also pretty burned out from doing mainsite for 2 months straight and the last competition wasted me. I'll get back to it monday, my plan is to focus heavily on strength for the next  2 months. i probably won't compete again until sectionals so i can focus entirely on that event instead of trying to get ready for each competition that comes along. The are mentally and physically draining and lead to poor training cycles. i'm setting my goals on one event and will attack that as best i can.

Also this weekend's nutrition workshop was awesome, i learned way more than i thought i would and am working on ways to implement it with our program and help people really see the most benefit from a nutrtion/high intesity program. more to come on that

Learning, Growing

i have a pretty exciting weekend ahead of me starting tomorrow. i'll be heading to dallas to do many crossfit related activities. Tomorrow i'll be meeting with Spencer of crossfit dallas central to talk crossfit things, both business and workout related and then i'll be working out at his box in the afternoon to try out a different atmosphere. i've never worked out in a class at another box so i'm excited to see how they do things compared to how i run classes at CSCF. After that i'll make a stop at whole foods to outfit myself for the weekend because i'm on a weird diet and i need the good stuff.

Saturday and sunday i'll be attending a nutrition workshop by Whole9 about their program whole30 and other nutrition topics. i'm excited to see what they can offer and how i can implement it into my gym. I've been following their whole30 program now for two weeks along with marcos and so far i like what it doing for me. i still crave some foods just becasue i know how good they taste, but i will be able to work them back in after the initial 30 days and i'm psyched about that.

Should be a very productive weekend so i'm ready to get started. 

Get it wrong when you're getting it right.

"Good Judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. "

I have found in my last few years of coaching, competing and learning that more often than not i'm getting it wrong when i think i'm really getting it right. I believe everyone feels this way, so at what point are we just content with what we are doing? I think its up to the point when improvement stalls out. In coaching i know i'll be teaching exercises a certain way and then i'll notice improvements are slowing or not happening at all. so i'll go back, do some research and learn that i'm getting it wrong! maybe i'm teaching it the wrong way or cuing incorrectly but it seems like i'm not using the most efficient method. Another example, nutrition. Eat good food and you're good right? no... eat fresh fruits and veggies, meat and fats and you're good right? no... eat only meat, veggies and fats, little fruit..ok got it. this too will change.

You're only getting it wrong when you seek knowledge to improve. if we were comstantly getting it right we'd be stagnate. We wouldn't improve and we'd never get better. yeah being told you are wrong sucks, may even set you back a few emotional clicks but it gets better and makes what you are doing better. i'm ok with being wrong because i'll learn how to get it right and improve upon that. Don't get too tied up with something you are doing wrong, focus on what you are doing right and improve upon your weaknesses. i try to take this approach everyday and i've improved faster than ever before. i'm learning and growing and its great. Today i'm right, tomorrow i'll be wrong, and life goes on, i just have to adapt.


"Unless you test yourself, you stagnate. Unless you try to go way beyond what you've been able to do before, you won't develop and grow. When you go for it 100%, when you don't have the fear of "what if I fail," that's when you learn, that's when you're really living" - mark allen