11/11/10 11/11/10

Sacrifice

But the term "sacrifice" actually means "the surrender of something for the sake of something else." It's not deprivation for deprivation's sake. Sacrifice means giving up this in order to get that.

11/9/10 11/9/10

The Rules of One

There is only one rep. The one you're doing right now.

11/8/10 11/8/10

What You Make Of It

This world is exactly what you make it -- no better or worse than your own attitude every single day. And if you can improve yourself, well, you can improve the world too.

11/5/10 11/5/10

Choosing Your Happy Hour

Whatever you're doing is cool by me. Is it cool by you? And are you where you want to be?

11/1/10 11/1/10

Tell Your Fear to Stuff It

So many people, in so many ways in life, are scared to do what they want to do. Don't be one of them. Step up.

10/27/10 10/27/10

Suckage

Some days suck like dumbbell workouts.

10/26/10 10/26/10

I'm Not Your Mother

I won't tap out. I won't quit the WOD before the buzzer. I won't drop the bar. You're going to have to pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.

10/24/10 10/24/10

Slipping

You won't recognize the moment that you start to slide backwards.

10/24/10 10/24/10

The Bar Tells The Truth

Here's the funny thing: It tells the truth when you walk away too. How you leave a failed lift tells more about you than you imagine.

10/21/10 10/21/10

Kindness and Stuff

But Elite Fitness is what attracts us and drives us. Compassion is what keeps us. Love is what makes us come back to the Painatorium.

10/20/10 10/20/10

Go To Your Dark Place

Happy won't get you where you want to go. You can't take your mind away from the pain if you want to achieve. You have to go straight at the pain and enter it.

10/18/10 10/18/10

Burning Cars

Do we complain too much as a community? Do we posture too much about the WOD, about our pain, about our efforts? Do we give our exercise far more importance than it deserves?