The Importance of Fitness and Its Impact on the Will

I want to remind everyone that our First Annual Christmas and Boot Camp Graduation Party will be on Friday night, December 18th at 7:30pm at Jacque's house (address released later). We will be having a gift exchange, only for those attending the party, so if you're planning to attend, you MUST let me know today, so I can put your name in a hat. Just say yes or no on the blog; that will suffice.

If you have not been to boot camp in a while, you are still warmly invited! Everyone must bring a Paleo dish or treat, as this will be a potluck style affair.

THERE WILL BE NO PM BOOT CAMP ON THAT DATE!

NEW INFORMATION

For the rest of the Winter, until further notice, AM boot camp will meet indoors on MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS (not Wednesdays as originally stated).

ONCE AGAIN, AM BOOT CAMP MEETS AT NEW HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH ON MONDAY AND THURSDAY MORNINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. We will still meet at the park on Wednesdays and Fridays, and we will still do some sort of trail or speed work on Tuesdays, so continue to check the blog on Mondays for further details.

THIS WEEK'S TRAIL/SPEED WORK WILL BE ONCE AGAIN AT BURBANK HIGH SCHOOL FOR AM AND PM CLASSES. WE WILL BE DOING AN ASSESSMENT.

From the CrossFit Journal 23 article, "Why Fitness"?, July 2004, by Greg Glassman

"For CrossFitters, fitness is part of a distinctly human enterprise – conscious and deliberate self-actualization. Being, very deliberately, all we can be. Our various capacities certainly include many that are physical. In some circles, affecting complete disdain for physical activity and achievement, artfully suggests intellectual focus, and hopefully, superiority. For us, evidence, experience, and logic favor models that recognize a vast and often irreducible interaction of mental and physical domains. We believe that exercising is smart and makes us smarter.

Recent analysis of the profound difference in genetic expression between exercising and sedentary people and the resulting disorder in multiple body systems of the sedentary suggest to us that normal brain function in sedentary individuals may eventually be shown by disadvantage of gene expression to be impossible. http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/content/full/543/2/399

Anyone who exercises regularly can quickly speak to its impact on mood and mental function. Someday, science will show that exercise doesn’t exactly produce unnaturally ebullient or buoyant mental states as much as being sedentary induces unnaturally depressive brain chemistry environments.

There’s another nonhealth advantage to becoming fit that doesn’t require blurring conventional or colloquial distinctions between mind and body but, rather, acknowledges the distinction and uses physical experience and successes to draw effective strategies for success in non-physical domains.

At CrossFit we call this the “transference effect”. What we know is that the gym is a testing ground for improving and developing the will. Physical achievement, fitness, requires repeatedly converting thought to action or giving expression to your will. The costs to physical achievement are real, painfully tangible, measurable, and fleeting while the rewards are equally real and measurable but sweet, not painful and long lasting rather than fleeting."

WOD

IN TEAMS COMPLETE

AMRAP IN 20 OF

SUICIDES TOTALING 100M 

CONE SHUFFLE

10 SQUATS

10 SIT UPS

20' BEAR CRAWLS