Who here likes to come up with ideas?
I know I do, or at least I did. I was such an idea man. Literally sat around endlessly listening to The Pixies and The Silversun Pickups just thinking of “things” and “stuff”. Usually my ideas never made it past this stage or languished in the next stage, “tangible hint”.
Peanut Butter in little pouches. I thought of it my first year of college. The idea for the Pirates of the Caribbean and first 50 pages of the screenplay? High school Sophomore. I’m very sure that I came up with the idea for Xbox One but I don’t have as much evidence as the other two. Which is also 0.
You know what the difference between me now and Justin of Justin’s Almond Butter, or me and Johnny Depp, or me and Bill Gates? A shit-ton of money. Why? Because they all had ideas and made moves on them. I was stuck in my college dorm mentality of getting blitzed and coming up with ground breaking ideas while eating pizza and watching Family Guy. I had the best notebook ever that I just recently lost that was for my friends and I to write down all our thoughts during these sessions a decade ago. Talk about ideas…
Idea is nothing more than a 4 letter word if there isn’t action. Here in the gym we are full of ideas, plans, and goals. We all want the big squat, the new “Fran” time, the qualifying score for Regionals, the 10# lost, you name it we want it. The problem is that goals are achieved, ideas seen to fruition, in here just like the rest of the world : through planning and action, often long term and repeated.
No PRs ever happened by talking about them.
I never heard of someone losing 20# because they thought about how awesome the macro breakdown they got was.
Last time I checked all the athletes that qualified for Regionals and the Games did so by getting a plan and sticking to it for a year if not years.
The fall is the time for many people to start complaining about the loss of summer. I encourage you to turn that negativity around and develop a plan of action to reach a short term and a long term goal. Use this time to kick start your fitness and get moving towards goals that will launch you into 2016.
Action = Much Success
WEDNESDAY
Strength : Clean + Lunge Complex
– 1 Hang Squat Clean + 2 Front Rack Lunge + 1 Hang Squat Clean, find a max
WOD : 7m AMRAP
Thruster 135/95
– Every time bar is dropped/thruster is broken (resting on back means broken) perform 10 double unders
S : 75/55, 15 single unders
L1: 115/75, 10 DUs counting attempts
Rx+: 145/100
The Program
1. Strength and WOD Rx+
2. EMOM 12m : 3 Sumo Deadlift, heavy but no break in acceleration up
3a: 5×3 High Bar Back Squat, rest :60
3b: 5×5 Box jump, highest able within 1 minute, rest :60
