SAD tip #4
Avoid drugs and alcohol. This is kind of tough when these companies market the crap out of it. We are made to believe that no occasion or fun times can be had without the use of drugs or alcohol. Have you ever noticed the amount of alcohol that characters consume on TV or in movies. It is seriously shocking. Plus, they seem to be able to drink these copious amounts and not be hungover...how does that even work?
SAD therapy tip #3
Practice Healthy Habits
You will hear/read me talk about habits a lot. This is because I believe that they are a powerful tool for change. Our brain is really quite amazing and it has the ability to constantly learn, grow and change. You can train your brain with habits to turn into behaviors.
SAD therapy tip #2
Engage in activities that you enjoy. Do you like to read? Play games? Knit? Paint? Whatever you like to do, make a plan to do it. Because you are lacking in energy and motivation, you will need to make a plan for this. If you get energy from being with people, plan things that are with people that are positive and make you happier when you are with them.
I am going to be very real with you here - November is a tough month in our house. Every year, it seems to get a little harder. Why? Well, because Jason and I suffer from seasonal affective disorder or SAD. It's not ideal to have 2 people in the same house struggle, but we know that it happens so we plan for it and can support each other, taking turns being the "rock" for the other person.
I saw this quote in a meme and I said to myself, "OMG, YES!"
Sometimes, I think back to when I was a kid. You know, when all you worried about was what game you were going to play at recess or if you can play at your friends house after school. I never thought about what was for dinner, how bills were going to be paid or how my clothes looked. Seriously, I would forget to brush my hair some days and it didn't phase me at all🤣
This past weekend the five fittest men and five fittest women in the world had an opportunity to compete against at the CrossFit Games. “The Games” essentially represent our sports world championships. It’s an opportunity for the rest of us in watch the very best in the sport do their thing. Other than watching some real good fitness and spending some time on the couch, why do we really need the Games? After all, Crossfit is for everyone!
During our daily wods at 306, we do all kinds of movements. We do all kinds of time frames, rep schemes, intervals and domains. That is Crossfit at it’s essence. Jason does an amazing job of programming and our coaches do an amazing job adjusting so every single person who comes in to the gym gets the desired stimulus.
Approaching two years ago our community gained an angel. Benjamin Sawatzky passed away from cancer and the loss to Chad, Carla and the rest of the Sawatzky family was, and continues to be, unimaginable. As our community does when members are in pain or in need, we rallied around them for support. We created a hero WOD for Ben and had a completely packed house to perform his workout, “Benji”. Since that time I have grown closer to Chad and i am fortunate to call him a “friend”. I share this with his permission.
It’s coming! Throughout all of the CoVid shut down and limitations there have been quite a few online competitions announced and ran by different facilities around the world. Some of the athletes at 306 have competed in several different competitions during this time and had great success. Jay and myself have had the opportunity to both participate in and watch other athletes partake and we have took the good and the “not-so-good” from each of them and started brain storming.
The ring muscle up. It’s one of those movements that everyone in the gym looks at with awe and aspires to get. It’s a beautiful display of strength, skill and technique. It requires all three of those in order to execute. There are all kinds of drills out there to help you build the strength and/or awareness of being on the rings in order to work towards the end result.
CoVid. It’s been a real bummer on everyone. As much as it has been a bummer on all of us adults, i think it has been more of a bummer on the kids. Their school stopped suddenly (probably not the worst thing in the world to most of them but...), they weren’t able to go out and play with friends and then most of their regular activities and sports were cancelled. They’re left with empty pop bottles and rocks to play with! Ok. Well maybe not quite but if your kids are anything like mine, they need something to do!
I had to scroll back through my list of blog titles to see if I had shared this before. I was looking for a simple nutrition tip to write a blog on for tonight and thought I had for sure already covered this. Turns out, I haven’t. It’s the most simple, basic nutrition tip I give to just about anyone I do personal training or goal setting with. It is one that is easy to follow, easy to understand and ease to execute. No fancy measuring. No reading labels. No counting calories.
In our last blog I shared a video from CrossFit Invictus’ Jared Enderton on the “uppercutting the bar” as we perform a snatch. It was a good, simple video with great instruction and break down of exactly what he means and why to do it. If you haven’t already, go back to the last blog and give the attached video a watch.
Tomorrow is Wednesday and (spoiler alert so stop right here if you don’t want to know what the WOD is going to be) we are returning to Weightlifting Wednesday this week. We have spent the last couple months of lifting days going through and testing our deadlift and then our squat clean. Progressing on, next up is the snatch.
Today after a class at the gym I had a conversation with a member who kind of laughed off the comment of “I heard 306 was the ‘competitive’ gym”. I want to take a quick second and address that comment and answer the question of:
Is 306 a competitive gym?
In one word; yes. 306 is a competitive gym but not in the way you may think.
1 min on 1 min off x 17
AMRAP and pick up where you left off
12 WBs
3 BMs
6 BBJO 24"/20"
