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20 thoughts on “Thur, Feb 19th”

1. A stretching session twice a week would be brilliant, I know I personally would benefit from it,

   Also seeing Will put the palm of his hands on the ground when bending over “oooh matron” was freakish and brilliant,

   I mentioned to Big Shane last night that I am useless and its something I need to do. Whatever he was doing with Will last night looked class,

2. This isn’t on the subject of stretching but I’ll say it anyway.

   How do you guys think your mood affects your workouts? For example yesterday I was in a bad mood and I didn’t bother finishing my SS session and just went home. That said, I hit two PRs in my other lifts before I just got fed up and left.

   Should you just bull through it? Or do you pull a Scotty and slip out the door?

3. Ha ha I am the worst person to answer this because my mood dictates how I perform on a daily basis. There was an article about police force guys and how the dealt with particularly vicous assualts and got on during the attack.

   The bones of it seemed to come to the conclusion that people that had the strength to stick it out and go up even when they didnt want to did better in these altercations not because of physical ability but a mental strength to not give up or quit,

   I have to admit that I regularly wanna throw it in but the people that excel at anything do whatever it is regardless of how they feel and just get on with it,

   (one guy I worked for had this approach and left nothing to do until the morning, one of the best bosses I had)

4. So far anytime I’ve been pissed off or just not bothered I begrudgingly finish whatever I had intended to do. I just suck it up and do it. Even if i perform well I’ll still be in a bad mood and if I perform bad I’ll just be even more pissed off. I’m sure it pays off in the long run though.

   There was one time though before christmas where I failed miserably at deadlifts and after two reps called it quits. I didn’t bother finishing out the set at a lighter weight. I think that’s ok though? If you know you have stalled on an exercise just stop and start over with a reset the next time?

5. I think strength work is easier than metcon though so my attitude might change in the future

6. I dunno, I’ve never given up on a workout before yesterday. Granted I had a slight excuse as I’d have to have waited about 20 minutes before I could have done my Power Cleans but that really doesn’t cut it.

   Its not about being tired or anything, I was just not in the mood to work out. You can be in the best of spirits but just find the WOD extremely taxing. I was clearly in good shape (2 PRs previous) and ready to lift but my mind wasn’t there, I dunno, I don’t think I’ll give up on a session again but it was just weird for it to happen for the first time.

7. did anyone see “the worlds strongest children and me” on channel 4 last night? Felt bad for most of the kids tbh. It’s all well and good if your kid comes up to you and asks for training regimes to make them strong, but forcing them to live out your frustrated dreams of athletic prowess? Abusive in my book. As bad as those disgusting child “beauty” pageants.

   As for giving up on a workout. I have never walked away from a metcon (even when ive hit the hour mark like i did for the 100 pull-ups, squats, pushups and situps), but for strength days i have had to call it a day early. I feel if you’re not mentally right and physically ready you can do yourself and injury so it’s not worth it. Discretion being the better part of valour and all that

8. In answer to Bobby’s question: First of all I think in the example Eamonn gives of reaching musclar failure during a strenght workout and not doing backoff sets… I think that’s OK, if you’ve genuinely hit failure. What Bobby seems to be talking more about is where you have the physical capacity but you your mood or mental state gets the better of you.

   I guess there’s an argument that part of the benefit of physical culture, whether its wrestling, weightlifting or crossfit is that you develop the ability to resist failure and overcome diversity. Part of it can be as little as turning up in the gym because that’s what you do, even if you don’t feel like it that day.

   I think you should try very, very hard not to throw the towel in when it comes to anything you are doing in the gym unless you’ve genuinely hit a stumbling block where continuing means you will either be there all day (assuming you can’t afford to do that) or you’re going to get injured.

   With that said: How bad exactly is your mood. Did your dog die (bad), or is it something that you could work through if you put the workout off until the evening. If it’s bad enough I say take the time off, as long as its the exception rather than the rule.

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   push press

   5-5-5-5-5

   60, 60, 60, 65, 65(f)

   runs

   1:19, 1:14, 1:21

9. Ha: I see I wrote that part of the benefit of physical culture should be to overcome “diversity”. I of course meant adversity. But what a freudian slip, eh… Well, you know I’m a CrossFitter, and we’re right wing nuts, right? (I’m converting Colm too)

10. Nice reply Ruairi, I spotted that diversity thing, it made me laugh.

    My head just wasn’t in it, it just shocked me because it never happened before. I doubt it’ll happen for a long time again. Though I am due to train tomorrow morning with a Saw Doctors induced hangover so we’ll see how that goes!

    Nice push presses btw

11. Bah, I probably should just have done 60kg across, it would have been heavy enough. I was trying to get closer to my 3 rep and 1 rep max, though… Ego

12. Big Shane/Big Rachel/Martin,

    http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32825

    and now I’ll read the posts above and comment…

13. Sometimes are heart just isn’t in it. We’re cranky, frustrated, the workout looks hard, we didn’t sleep, some right wing nut keeps harping on at you over breakfast…

    Two things on this: 1) Where do you draw the line with excuses? What constitutes a good excuse, really? Being tired isn’t in my book. It’s subjective, and largely just the moan centre of your brain acting up. That gets enough exercise as it is. Which leads me on to point two – Consistency.

    There’s a great Glassman quote posted up in CF Manc about the beauty of human movements. Basically the thrust is that everyday can’t be PR day, and sometimes everything’s gone wrong. BUT, there is a benefit in continued exercise, even sub optimal workouts. If nothing else, you’re reinforcing good movement patterns, and teaching yourself how to overcome diversity

    This can be expanded even further. Honestly, when has putting something on the long finger or quitting ever really paid off? If you have a report to do, you’re better off just doing it. If you have to contact someone, just do it.

    Now I’ll go follow my own advice and do what needs to be done.

14. http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/ (Wfs)

15. I hear ya Colm.

    Diversity. The bane of all CrossFitters.

16. http://www.thoseshirts.com/images/rect-diversitybk.jpg (wfs unless you’re around stinkin liberals!)

17. That’s diversity I could get to liking, Ed!

18. Deirdre: 30-35-35-35
    Jeff: 40-50-55(f)-55(f)-50
    John: 45-50-55-60(f)
    Pixie: 40-50-55-60-65(PR)
    Sue: 25-27.5-27.5-27.5
    Tom: 45-50-55

    Robbie: 40-45-45(f)-40-40
    Tony: 40-40-40(f)-40-42.5

    Run times are still in the gym. Van Dammit

19. Run times:

    Deirdre -1:29,1:38,1:36
    Jeff – 1:18, 1:22, 1:22
    John – 1:26,:1:29,1:30
    Pixie – 1:38,1:38,1:39
    Sue – 1:32,1:35,1:32
    Tom – 1:17,1:20,1:24
    Robbie – 1:15,1:24,1:29
    Tony – 1:20,1:28,1:29

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