How do you get almost 20,000 people to watch your YouTube video in just over one week?
Well, if you’re Jason Auer “of Power”, you name your video “2011 Crossfit Games Winner” and let the worldwide community of CrossFitters eat it up!
In a matter of days I saw this video pop up on my News Feed on Facebook over a dozen times, and there is definitely a reason why. This is hilarious. Jason, if this year didn’t work out, there’s always next year!
I said yesterday that I wasn’t ready for summer to be over, and I was serious. Greg is actually in Costa Rica for a few weeks working Surf Camps, and I’m wishing I was there daily!
If you’ve never tried to surf before, this won’t be AS cool to you, but if you have ever been out in the ocean and tried to paddle into the perfect spot of a wave… some of these clips are unreal!
Enjoy!
Tavarua Dreaming: Part Two from Surfline on Vimeo.
Jack (from ApresPowder.com) just sent me this link, and I don’t even know what to say… this is unreal.
I’m still LOVING summer, and I don’t want the warm temperature to end, but when winter rolls around I will be ready. So cool!
I have never learned how to ride a motorcycle. In fact, if my memory serves me right, I’ve never even been ON a motorcycle as an adult.
But watching these dudes at the X-Games do things like this is UNREAL! I don’t know how you even start THINKING about these trips, but Bravo to these amazing riders. This stuff is cool.
Ric Elias was on board the flight that landed in the Hudson.
Here’s the description from the TED page of what this video is about:
“Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time.”
The reason for this post is for me to ask you all…
What would it take for you to change your outlook on life?
I ask because we always see these shows and specials and hear these stories of people who experience near-death events and how their lives change forever. Why does it need to take such a big and potentially tragic event for so many of us to change the way we act?
Why can’t we identify things in our lives that we want to change… and change them now? Since it’s August 1st, I am challenging everyone to pick ONE thing that you want to change, or improve, and start working towards it.
What are you going to work on? I’m interested to know!
Click below to see the entire page from the TED Website:
Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed
This week started off with some heavy work right out of the gate! After working up to a new 1 rep max squat clean, we threw in some heavy squat cleans into the workout, too. Well played, Orion. Well played.
Today, every single person PR’d in their squat clean except for one. And by at least 10 pounds, too! The one person who didn’t PR, tied their PR. That was CC. He pulled 275 off of the ground. TWO HUNDRED and seventy-five pounds. Yeah. he’s strong.
The workout consisted of 135lb squat cleans, which is heavier than most people in class tonight have ever done a workout with 55 reps. It was intense, but a lot of athletes did their first Rx with that weight! GREAT JOB, everyone!
Workout of the Day
Strength:
Squat Clean: 3×3 warm-up then 5×1 establish new max
WOD:
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Squat Clean (135#/95#) / 150m Run
Thanks to Orion for filming today!
So I’m just going to post the events and their descriptions for Events 2 and 5 for the 2011 CrossFit Games below. My take on them…. awesome. They’re only 2 of 5 (or more…. definitely more) events, and they capture so many unique facets of fitness.
I approve! (Since you care)
Remember, this stuff is pasted straight off of the Official CrossFit Games site.
While sitting in the stands, the athletes learned Events 2 and 5 for the individual competition. Both are 3-part skills tests. Individual Event 2 is:
Skills 1
Max L-sit for time (1 attempt)
Max distance softball throw (2 attempts)
Max distance handstand walk (1 attempt with 1 mulligan if less than 5 yards)
Athletes will be scored for this event in the same system as the Regional scoring. And they will be ranked in each test with the sum of their 3 rankings determining their final score for the event. Low score wins and will receive the identical points as the other events.
Individual Event 5 is:
Skills 2
1 rep max weighted chest-to-bar pull-up for load
1 rep max snatch for load
Jug carry for distance in 60 seconds
Each athlete has 2 minutes to establish a 1 rep max chest-to-bar pull-ups, 2 minutes to establish a 1 rep max snatch, and then will have 60 seconds to carry 2 weighted water jugs, as far as possible.
Athletes will be ranked in each test with the sum of their 3 rankings, determining their final score for the event
It’s finally here!! They have announced the first event of the 2011 CrossFit Games.
As predicted, there is actually a SWIMMING segment of the first workout. I am VERY excited to see what this does to the field, especially since I swam through high school and college!
For time:
210 meter Ocean swim
1,500 meter Soft-sand run
50 Chest-to-bar pull-ups
100 Hand-release push-ups
200 Squats
1,500 meter Soft-sand run
I leave in a few hours for my best friend’s wedding in Lincoln, Nebraska. I couldn’t be happier for both Jared and Katie, and I am beyond honored that he chose me to be his best man! These are two of the nicest people I’ve ever known, and the fact that they’re finally getting married after all of these years brings a huge smile to my face!
In honor of all best men out there, I am only hoping to do the role justice this weekend.
So if you’ll all please raise your glasses and join me in a toast. To Jared and Katie!
Push Press into a 5-Round WOD with Heavy Thrusters and Chest-to-Bar Pull-Ups. Not a bad little Tuesday!
Coach Megan leading the troops
So get this…. Heather has been working with Megan for a few weeks on trying to learn the KIP for pull-up. Before the workout tonight she decided that she would do her first CrossFit workout with no bands on the pull-ups, and just do them as “strict pull-ups”, and one at a time. Well, cue the workout, and she’s off. ALL OF A SUDDEN, THIS HAPPENS!
(by the way… my phone ran out of memory while filming this. just know that she was linking 4-6 of these in a row, and it looked like a piece of cake. SO COOL, HEATHER!)
After the workout, I talked to everyone and asked a very serious question:
How many of you tonight did SOMETHING for the first time?
This meant either pull-ups with no band, chest-to-bar for the first time, a thruster with more weight than in any other workout… it didn’t matter.
EVERY SINGLE HAND WENT UP!!! You guys are so awesome 🙂
Workout of the Day
Strength:
Push-Press 3×3 warm-up, 10×1 @ 85%
WOD:
5 Rounds for Time
5 Thrusters (135#,95#) / 10 Chest to Bar Pull-ups / 150m Run
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