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!
What Are Your Goals?
September 26, 2012
attitude, conditioning, fitness, mental, physical, self-control distraction, goals, long-term goals, motivation, self-control, short-term goals Leave a comment
Don’t Play It UP!
September 7, 2012
attitude, mental, self-control accountability, athlete, clean and jerk, energy, excuses, habit, Helen, human performance, mind, motivation, performance, results, snatch, sweat, WOD Leave a comment
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.
Supplements 411
July 24, 2012
Uncategorized athlete, living foods, living system, motivation, supplements, whole foods Leave a comment
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.
How to Stay Motivated Part 1
January 27, 2012
Uncategorized athlete, competition, CrossFit, goals, motivation, sport Leave a comment
#1- Have a partner or a team you meet up with regularly
#2- Compete in any events you can to keep short term goals flowing throughout the year
#3- Remember, you are your most fierce competitor. Everyone else is only there to push you harder, which enables you to reach your full potential.
Powerful Beyond Measure!
January 24, 2012
Uncategorized body and soul, fitness, functional movement, high-intensity, measure, mind, motivation, observable, powerful, repeatable, WOD, work capacity Leave a comment
It is amazing that CrossFit has started a revolution in fitness first by defining it (as work capacity across broad time and modal domains using constantly varied, fully-functional movements, performed at high-intensity) and by making it easily observable, measurable and repeatable.
MotivationWOD is after the part of being fit that is NOT easily observable, measurable or even repeatable, but we all know at times it is observed. At times it is measured and at times it is repeated. What am I talking about? Who we are on the inside. I am talking about why we choose to do the things we do. I am talking about where our courage and cowardice, our strength and weakness, our love and hate come from.
DO NOT FORGET: Without the mind, the body will atrophy and die. If your priority is body over mind you will fail in the game called life! But if you realize the mind, how you see and believe, who you are, takes precedence over the body and in fact makes the body stronger, you will WIN!
You are powerful beyond measure, beyond observation and beyond repetition. You ARE!
*If you haven’t visited the pages above, “What is Mental Fitness?” and “Measuring Mental Fitness” this would be a good time to check them out.
*The Spartan Race would be another fun way to express your fitness!
The Nature of Competition
January 10, 2012
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Historically, the nature of competition has been an idea of survival and a real ego-trip. But in a modern world and evolving society we know the true nature of competition is really all about being motivated and encouraged to push yourself harder and doing the same for your “opponent.” You each are there to push one another to the next level and that is the end result regardless of who finishes with the fastest time or most points. Your greatest enemy or opponent is really just your self. Winning is NOT important; Learning to push yourself harder through the presence of your “opponent”, having a good attitude toward them and your self and having fun is really where it’s at!
