If you aren’t planning to succeed, how can you expect to? Short term and long-term goals are a great way to stay motivated and help you fight through tough and distracting times that are inevitable!

Even when you are tired, you are likely to feel better after pushing through a workout. DON’T PLAY IT UP IN YOUR MIND! Don’t give the excuses power over you. Make up your mind to get started, enjoy it, work hard through it and reap the benefits. Don’t allow yourself to lose that edge that has kept you intense and has brought you consistent results.

Mental bandwith affects your emotional and physical output. It also affects self-control. Tune into the importance of rest, de-stressing, days off and, perhaps, a “cheat-day” to enhance your performance in every way.

What have you been doing lately to stimulate your mind?! Have some fun! Do something different or new! The only way to feel alive is to mix it up, have some variety and fun! Doing the same things over and over again is not very inspiring or motivating!

Knowing what you are putting in your body and why is indispensable knowledge in this day and age of manufactured and processed foods. Treat your body like the whole, living system that it is and keep your nutrition REAL.

The “Hope” workout was amazing! I hadn’t had a workout that hard in a very long time. I was on the floor afterward for at least 3-5 minutes! It was 17:00 of suffering! My forearms and lower body were already overused from 2 hours of rowing practice the night before for another fundraiser myself and 3 of my athletes participated in called the Dave Thorsness Rowing Challenge which took place the Sunday morning after “Hope”. It was a weekend of challenge, pain, FUN and warrior-athleticism! YESSS!!

I set a goal of 300 reps for “Hope” and scored 252! I set a goal to raise $300 and have received $395 with a projected $445! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

There is something about knowing there are little kids suffering that motivates me to do what I can! This is an opportunity for me to show what I’m about- preserving LIFE!

http://hope.crossfit.com

Coach Glassman discusses the new CrossFit for Hope fundraiser (formerly “Fight Gone Bad (FGB)), coming this weekend June 9th, to raise money for St. Jude’s Children Hospital. This fundraiser is to support the on-going war against childhood cancer.

FGB is one of CrossFits most revered workouts that requires you to do as many reps as possible in 60 seconds at 5 different stations/movements before taking a 60 second rest period and repeating the whole protocol two more times. It is an amazing workout that crushes! The “Hope” workout, follows the same protocol. Here Coach Glassman discusses the different movements chosen for “Hope” as compared to FGB. “This crushes it (FGB) at every element”, Coach says. WHOA!! The “Hope” workout is designed to really test work capacity even beyond what FGB does.

THE COOL THING, as he mentions at the end, is that ANYONE can do this workout. You do NOT have to follow the prescribed weights and heights to participate. Kids and grandparents can complete “Hope” at weights and measurements that make sense for them.

Even if you can’t or won’t do the workout this Saturday, you can still support the cause. If you want to sponsor an athlete who is going to suffer the “Hope” workout to support and try to give hope to dying children, I AM ONE! Further, you can still support the cause without sponsoring an athlete. This is an opportunity to do SOMETHING and prove saving lives is a priority to you.

http://hope.crossfit.com

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Enter athletes name “Lance Howard”

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