Inspiration

Sooooooo close. Between the kippers and skippers workshop last month with Tenacious T, B-rah rah and Coach Hurly and some one on one work with W this past week my kip was starting to look more like...well more like a kip. Then today with the support of Fancy Nancy I was this close to getting my chin to the bar. Pretty good Christmas Eve workout if you ask me!!! It pays to believe in Christmas magic I know that if I get this kip thing down I can do Fran prescribed. After the self doubt that has been creeping in over the last week or two this is just what I needed.

Watch out b$&@#!!!! I'm coming!!!!!

Inspiration

In elementary school, teachers celebrate the 100th day of school.  And because there is 100 days left until FRAN I thought a little song a friend of mine shared might be appropriate.  Considering how often I play the mental game of breaking up my reps in different ways this is quite fitting. 

How Many is One Hundred?

(to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb")

How many is one hundred,
One hundred, one hundred,
How many is one hundred?
It's ten groups of ten.

How many is one hundred,
One hundred, one hundred?
How many is one hundred?
It's twenty groups of five.

How many is one hundred,
One hundred, one hundred?
How many is one hundred?

It's fifty groups of two.

How many is one hundred,
One hundred, one hundred,
How many is one hundred?
It's one hundred groups of one.

Iram Khan

Blogger's block

I thought a blogger never ran out of stuff to say! Isn't that an unwritten blog rule-rant and rave ALL the time even if its about nothing in particular.  Well its hard for me to admit it but I got nothin'.  There have been very few times in my life that I haven't found something to talk about.  I am good at talking, its kinda of my thing.  So the fact that I have written once in December and have about 6 half written mediocre "essays" that just aren't that exciting or interesting is a little frustrating and has started to wear on me.

To be honest I think that my naive idea to try one of the most famous CrossFit benchmarks was based on very little personal knowledge of what I would have to do to complete FRAN.  And as time has passed this fun way to get in shape has taken a serious turn! In fact I think like many who sample the kool-aid I might suddenly be in "too deep" to sarcastically comment on the things I used to.    

This new respect for the idiosyncrasies of CF combined with a lack of valuable screen time (wait a sec....valuable + screen time = an oxymoron) has left me with a very sparse blog this month.  I find that my time online has been consumed with other things lately.  Who knew that this one time, reluctant, weekend CrossFit skeptic was going to someday be scouring the Internet soaking up any and all information about anything and everything to do with this not so underground fitness phenomenon.  No seriously, I used to surf the web for cool ways to teach balancing equations to grade 10s or fun things to do with your toddler.  Now I am looking up ways to improve my front squat, finding tips and tricks to help my thrusters and the majority of my time I just watch videos from Mobility WOD....oh come on....you would be hard pressed to find a CF lady who doesn't love that guy....for that matter any lady who doesn't swoon over that guy...Sigh....

Inspiration will come...it always does, but for now I will spend my time pretending that K Starr is my personal mobility coach and even if I have nothing to ever say again I will at least be limber :)    

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Inspiration

So this isn't me....don't get too excited.  I have just mastered doing a 30 sec handstand against the wall without falling or freaking out. 

I just joined pinterest.....hello, where has that been all my life!!!! It takes friend stalking to a whole new level. 

Found this picture among other awesome CrossFit inspired stuff on Coach Jazzy J's pin board.