Come One, Come All
We had a blast @ the last "Workout By The Water" and now the time is coming to do it again. This is your chance to come out and try CrossFit, bring your family and friends, get to know us, meet cool people, and get in a great workout. The next "Workout By The Water" is scheduled for Sept. 6 2008 @ 9:00 down at the Vallejo Waterfront. Mark it down in your calendars...we'll see you there.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: CFV will be closed for the Labor Day Weekend. Classes will resume as usual on Tuesday, September 2, 2008. Have a safe and wonderful weekend. I will be signing off until Tuesday.
WOD August 29 2008
"Helen"
Three rounds for time:
Run 400 meters
1 1/2 pood Kettlebell X 21 swings (or 55 pound dumbbell swing)
12 Pull-ups
Quotes of Don Juan Matus, On Being a Warrior
A warrior acknowledges his pain but he doesn't indulge in it.
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is
that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary
man takes everything as a blessing or as a curse.
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's
control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go.
That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind.
No one can push him, no one can make him do things against himself
or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive and
he survives in the best of all possible fashions.
Acts have power. Especially when the warrior acting knows that
those acts are his last battle. There is a strange consuming
happiness in acting with the full knowledge that whatever he is
doing may very well be his last act on earth.
A warrior must be willing and ready to make his last
stand here and now.
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless
challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad.
Challenges are simple challenges.
Self-importance is man's greatest enemy. What weakens him is
feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of his fellow men.
Self-importance requires that one spend most of one's life offended
by something or someone.
The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a
warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified
in doing so, believing that someone is always doing something to us.
Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.
A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in
ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as
grounds for regret but as a living challenge.
The worst that could happen to us is that we have to die, and
since that is already our unalterable fate, we are free; those who
have lost everything no longer have anything to fear.
A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going
to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short
for witnessing all the marvels of it.
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
