(Excerpt taken from HyperFit USA) From John Loudermilk:
Reflections from this evening's run...
Earlier today someone asked what my best IronMan time was. I hesitated then replied "around 12:30". I contemplated but refrained from spewing a laundry list excuses for why my time wasn't better. Why did I hesitate and consider listing all the physical challenges I encountered?
For fear of being judged.
I entered three IronMan challenges and each time fell short of my finish goal. I did face some very real physical challenges on my journey to reach a time I set as the definer of my personal success. Having fallen short of my goal I wasn't proud to admit my time, today I'm okay with it, it was 12:32 to be exact. So what's changed? Realizing I'm my own worst critic and what others think doesn't matter.
What does matter? Getting out there pushing the limits, challenging oneself beyond what's comfortable. Learning from failures and teaching from experiences. While others may judge they are likely judging from the sidelines. Set the goal then have the courage to take the journey.
Roosevelt said it best..."It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Reflections from this evening's run...
Earlier today someone asked what my best IronMan time was. I hesitated then replied "around 12:30". I contemplated but refrained from spewing a laundry list excuses for why my time wasn't better. Why did I hesitate and consider listing all the physical challenges I encountered?
For fear of being judged.
I entered three IronMan challenges and each time fell short of my finish goal. I did face some very real physical challenges on my journey to reach a time I set as the definer of my personal success. Having fallen short of my goal I wasn't proud to admit my time, today I'm okay with it, it was 12:32 to be exact. So what's changed? Realizing I'm my own worst critic and what others think doesn't matter.
What does matter? Getting out there pushing the limits, challenging oneself beyond what's comfortable. Learning from failures and teaching from experiences. While others may judge they are likely judging from the sidelines. Set the goal then have the courage to take the journey.
Roosevelt said it best..."It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Chris Morrow instructing a rowing foundations class
Stremgth: 3x5 Back Squat, 3x5 Press
WOD
"Tommy V"
For time:
21 Thrusters (115#/75#)
12 Rope climbs
15 Thrusters
9 Rope climbs
9 Thrusters
6 Rope climbs
Chris:
ReplyDeleteBack Squat: 135, 155, 175, 195, 225
Thrusters at 95#
29:43
Press: 95, 115, 115, 135
Good work Chris-
ReplyDelete3x5 means 3 sets of 5reps. Try and use 1 weight and each day you Squat/Press/Any lift attempt to add 5 pounds.
ex. Day 1- Squat 3x5 @225
Day 2- Squat 3x5 @230
I scaled the the WOD to 21-15-9 thrusters w/75# and 3-2-1 rope climbes 14:12
ReplyDeleteWOD: 29:02 as rx'd
ReplyDeletepress: 115, 135, 145
back squat: 225, 275, 295