Football Cert Day 1

Today I am in Atlanta for the Crossfit Foobtall Cert.  Got to hear some great stuff from Ben and Raph (no they are not ninja turtles).  Why crossfit football lecture was good.  Ben reminds me of me.  Kind of all over the place and goes on a lot of tangents.  Learned some pretty solid rationale for squatting with the toes and knees pointed straigh ahead.  Tried to keep that focus when we did 3RM back squats and wouldn't you know it I PRd.  Dang it.  maybe this lifting heavy stuff actually works.  next we did deads and i might have pulled my back a little during the WOD (same spot I am seeing Karen for).  Learned some great warm-up stuff (dead bugs and spiderman complexes are awesome).  The programming lecture was great from Ben and really cleared up a lot for me.  Oh by the way Raph Ruiz is a brilliant trainer and a great exericse science mind.  He could be solely responsible for me changing 6 year old dogma/fitness paradigms of my own.  EVERYTHING has a purpose.  From a S and C standpoint, it what you are doing does not translate to on field performance then is it really worth doing.  I really can't wait until tomorrow.  I will give a more formal write up when i have my notes by my side.  It is pretty cool talking shop with new folks though.  Man i really love this.

Pursue it
Drew

today is a beautiful day

should be the mantra every time you crawl out of bed.  i know it's hard: 445am, the alarm goes off.  the dogs start scratching at the door to go outside.  you hear the baby start to wiggle because he knows breakfast has been marinating for 7 hours and sounds delightful.  your wonderful wife gets into the shower to let you sleep for 5 more minutes.  as you get out of the shower you smell coffee brewing.  not foldgers, but trader joes dark super dark coffee.  mmmmmmmmm.  you get dressed, get your other son up and dressed only to kiss his little head and leave the house for what is most likely gonna be another 12-15 hour day.  it's chilly outside so you crank on the seat warmers as you take that first long sip of coffee from your mug.  then it hits you.  today you get to go and train people to get fitter, faster, and stronger.  a smile creeps across your face.

today is a beautiful day.

limitless
Drew

Anger

I just got done reading the morning announcements for SCDS and they contained a quote from an unknown author, "sometimes you have the right to be angry, blah blah blah.  Really?  what could possibly upset a high schooler so much that they get angry?  Anger is a mis-emotion brought on by a negaive reaction to a stimulus.  I guess I meant misdirected emotion.  Why don't we teach our kids (by the way the school is doing this anti-bullying program while although noble still gone about the wrong way) how to be positive influences on themselves and others?  I couldn't even imagine right now being angry at anything.  Anger is such a strong emotion.  "Fear leads to anger.  Anger leads to hate.  Hate leads to suffering."-Yoda.  The world needs more positive role models, not the ones that make waaaaaaaaaaayyyyy toooooooooooo muuuuuuuuuuuuch money (read any professional male athlete) or run our country, but folks who sincerely live positive examples.  My grandfathers are examples.  Pa (my dad's deceased father) has always been a shining example to me of a person who unconditionally believes in people around him.  He saw the good in most and was not afraid to say i love you.  Grandad (my mother's dad) still to this day sits back and watches the room.  Keeps to himself a lot except to chime in when a football player does something silly (like most touchdown celebrations), but I know for a fact he loves us more now than when we were younger.  His love grows everyday because he is a positive influence on others around him.

let's not even say anger.  you have the right to be angry, but when it comes down to it, shouldn't you place energy somewhere else?

limitless
Drew