CrossFit East River – WOD
Weightlifting
1: Hang Power Clean (3-3-3-3-3)
Metcon
2: Metcon (AMRAP – Rounds and Reps)
8 minute AMRAP:
8 Deadlifts 135/95
8 Burpees over the bar
8 Strict Pullups / Ring Rows
Your workout of the day!
8 minute AMRAP:
8 Deadlifts 135/95
8 Burpees over the bar
8 Strict Pullups / Ring Rows
12-minute AMRAP:
10 KB or DB push press (10L/10R)
16 KB/DB hang power cleans (8L/8R)
20 box jumps
250m row
*If you’re doing the Open on Saturday, CASUAL pace, 70-80%.
DAILY MINDSET
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”
We can all agree that the single constant in our universe is that things will change. From the most successful, to the struggling, we’ll all experience change.
Yet there is something that separates the successful and the struggling. Not the type of change – because that’s again just part of our world. But instead, the response to it.
Change isn’t positive or negative in and of itself. It is our internal interpretation of the event that dictates whether it was good or bad. Where thoughts become actions, perception becomes reality.
When we actively remind ourselves that events don’t shape our world, and that our thoughts towards them do, we can see the growth opportunity in every moment. We just have to look for it.
4 Rounds for time:
5 HSPUs
10 Wall Balls 20/14
20 AB Mat Situps
12min time cap.
DAILY MINDSET
“Trade your expectation for appreciation, and the world changes around you” – Tony Robbins
There will be a final cup of morning coffee for us.
There will be the last chance for us to listen to the radio.
And if we are lucky enough to have kids, there will be a last time we get to sit in traffic as we drive them to school.
As Tony Robbins quotes, if we can remove expectations from the norm, and replace them with a sense of gratitude, our entire world changes. We start to see the abundance in life again, versus it being blended into the background.
“BlooDThirsty”
AMRAP 12:
15 Burpees
12 Deadlifts (155/105)
9 Hang Power Cleans (155/105)
6 Push Jerks (155/105)
DAILY MINDSET
“Our greatest fear in life should not be failure. Our greatest fear in life should be succeeding in things that don’t matter.” – Francis Chan
One of life’s greatest tragedies: we tend to think that things will be different if we achieve more, win more, or make more money. But if those things have never changed us before, even if we win the world… would it change us today? Like thirsty people guzzling salt water, it’s a never-ending cycle that does not lead to fulfillment.
Yet we can work tirelessly for that next finish line, putting all of eggs in that basket, wishing, hoping, and working tirelessly to get there. One of our greatest fears, as written in the quote above, is to get there, and to realize… we didn’t climb the right ladder. It didn’t bring us to where we wanted to be. How we wanted to feel.
It always boils down to this – the quality of our relationships, the positive influence we impart on others, and who we become in the process. Hustle is crucial, but placing first things first is absolutely vital. Which ladder are we climbing today?
“Open Road”
AMRAP 20:
30 AbMat Sit-ups
20 Wallballs (20/14)
100 Meter Farmers Carry (50’s/35’s)
3 Rounds for time:
10 Burpees to a plate
10 GTO with a plate 45/25
10 Pull-ups
14-min AMRAP:
500m row/400m run/1km bike
20 KBS
20 walking lunges
20 push-ups
For time:
50 medicine-ball cleans
25 push jerks
50 medicine-ball cleans
♀ 14-lb. ball, 105-lb. jerk
♂ 20-lb. ball, 155-lb. jerk
15 minute time cap.
DAILY MINDSET
“There are risks and costs of a program of action. But those are far less than the risks and costs of inaction.” – John F. Kennedy
Change may be one of the single most paralyzing things.
Because in the lack of change… is safe. It’s comfortable.
But in that comfort, we are literally confining ourselves to a box. A world that cannot grow further than what it has already grown to.
If we want to grow, we need to face the terror of change. Face the chance that we may fail. Face the chance that we may embarrass ourselves. Face the chance, that we may never be “safe” again.
When we realize that it is ourselves, not our circumstances, holding us back, safety becomes the least safe thing we can so. The only risk becomes playing it safe.
“Child’s Play”
3 Rounds:
10 Thrusters (115/85)
20 Deadlifts (115/85)
50 Double Unders
DAILY MINDSET
“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
There is an invisible, impenetrable ceiling over our heads. Our own expectations.
The level of effort we will put in today will be relative to what we believe we can accomplish. If we don’t believe we can lose the weight, we won’t put in the work to lose the weight. If we don’t believe we can get the job, we won’t put in the research and studying to get the job. We can’t summon the effort for something we don’t believe is possible.
It’s easy to start with the belief. Hard to maintain it in the darkest of times.n This is where most fall – we succumb to the missteps… and we change our expectations. We change our goals, to something more “attainable”. We settle.
That’s when we can remind ourselves that this quote came from a man who was cut from his High School basketball team. A man who had every reason to change his expectations. And that, would have ended it. Yet – we know the rest of story. What will be ours?
AMRAP 10:
5 Pull-ups
10 Dumbbell Hang Clean and Jerks (50/35)
15 AbMat Sit-ups