3/20/2017 WOD

My first lifting workout in what feels like months, but only a few weeks crushed me. In a few short weeks I have lost a bit of volume in the weight I was able to move, and power making it through the movements. I am writing this 2 days after the work out. But my first day back consisted of this:

Bench press 5×10 w/ barbell @ 65lbs
Back Squats 5×5 w/ Barbell @ 95lbs
Box Step ups 40 reps @ 24 inches
Incline press 3×10 w/ 20lbs dumb bells
Goblet squats band above knee 3×10 with 20lbs KB

I do have some stiffness and soreness happening, but it isn’t terrible and will not hold me back from pulling and pushing weight later on in the day.

-Jen

Good, capital G good

We are all capable of amazing things, but to make these amazing things happen in our own lives we need to have a head right and fully understand why we are trying to do these things. My husband and I have been on a winding bend roller coaster that hasn’t stopped over the last few years. We have gone strong in our efforts to improve our bodies and mind, however we often fall away from those strong efforts back to our old habits, to board that roller coaster yet again, and again. We have both had a few health scares and it really turned on the switch that is time to get series and quit telling ourselves that “we will start tomorrow” and start today. So that is what we did, this blog is our journey to reset our mind, heart and body.

I’d like to start with some great advice from the late Chris Moore aka Barbellbudda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RocCNvDAEuc

“One thing you can always do to ensure justice, to ensure you are doing Good, capital G good. Always try to come back to something you love daily and to try to make it better  just a little bit better a little bit more helpful  a little less heavy with mistakes a little better focused any small improvement coupled with the daily effort of just trying again is really the only remedy to the self-doubt and you are going to feel it that you want to do something but something is going to whisper in your ear that maybe that is not possible, The only way you are going to remedy that is to keep doing it and to stoke and cultivate within yourself faith for lack of a better word to keep it up that if you will be rock solid with yourself you know that you have something worth sharing and providing talking about and doing. If you keep stoking your little fire that will remedy the issues of self-doubt  that will help that better than anything else and even know you will keep dealing with at the very least, very least you will be able to easily look back to where you are because right in the present moment its hard to always believe in the vision and the dream you have all the faith . You also take a little time to show yourself some gratitude for how far you have come to realize that in the space of a couple of years you can have a lot of hurts wounding things cause that is going to happen to everybody but also in the same point you can see all the little moments when where you were able to produce and make something   and persevere and move on through those moments. Two years to see how far you have come with this simple practice like that is really all the proof you really need to make tracks. If you want to be a good coach just keep coaching me you wanna be a great writer find a way to write, even just one sentence today, one sentence written as good as you could will make that happen . If you want to take on a business task, anything you might want to take on keep up the daily faith that is how you will make it a real thing and I really believe that.”