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Yesterday, I referred to a young girl who wrote my gardening photos were not “sexy” and that I should stick to photos of my abs and return to fighting MMA because she thought it was sexier than putting my hands in manure. It ...
Yesterday, I referred to a young girl who wrote my gardening photos were not “sexy” and that I should stick to photos of my abs and return to fighting MMA because she thought it was sexier than putting my hands in manure. It reminded me of story from my youth, where I was nearly arrested for a crime I hadn’t committed. When I was 17, a detective walked into the bank where I worked evenings, and asked me to accompany him to the police station. Paranoid, I started asking all sorts of questions because I couldn’t understand what I could have done wrong. He evaded them until we arrived at the station where he asked me about the diamond I had sold the week earlier. Telling him of my second job as a lifeguard, I explained how I had found the loose diamond at the bottom of the pool while inspecting the drain after closing. He asked me if I had heard about the robbery at the jewelry store a couple weeks earlier? I hadn’t, but I instantly cringed as I put the pieces together on the story he had assembled. Explaining that they’d been watching me for a week, he asked if I had found the single diamond, why had I been trying to sell jewelry at stores in several nearby towns. Worried and confused, I said, “That’s impossible as I work nearly 16 hours a day between my two jobs at the bank and at the pool trying to save money for college.” He chuckled wryly, thinking I was lying, “Why do you look so worried then?” “Well,” I replied, “You think I robbed a jewelry store for one; and two, I’ll probably lose my job even for the suspicion of it.” Asking if I could prove my whereabouts on the date of the robbery, and the date of the attempts to sell jewelry, I said, “Absolutely. I worked all of those dates.” Then, it was his turn to look confused. He snatched up one paper very closely, and then another and compared them with earnest. “Spell your last name, please.” I did, “S.O.N.N.O.N.” He dropped the papers to the desk and sat back saying, “I am very sorry for the confusion, Scott, but it seems that we’ve made a mistake. The individual attempting to sell the stolen jewelry is a Scott Sonnen; with an ‘E’.” My initial reaction was total relief, but then, I thought about my job. Who in the world at the bank was going to believe this story? As predicted, I ended up losing both jobs the next week, though the managers said it wasn’t related to the allegations. The detective called me to apologize again, “Scott, we had made a major mistake. We know that you were fired from your jobs because they weren’t comfortable with the rumors of your involvement in a crime, despite our insistence that you were innocent. I take full responsibility. You seem like a good kid working hard, and now you’re only going to need to work harder because of our actions. I’m sorry. When you need a reference for a new job, please let me know. I will do whatever I can.” (Ironically, I now work with law enforcement agencies around the world, most likely because of this one man’s incredible character to accept full accountability for a mistake and offer to help make up for it.) At 18 years old, I had made a lot of blunders, and I was going to make many more mistakes before I got older. But at that frightening point of nearly being arrested for a crime I hadn’t committed, and regardless of my innocence losing two jobs critical to my future, I realized a stark reality: Who you are and what others think of you are often disparate, and sometimes opposite each other. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “The only person you’re destined to be is the one you decide to be.” Others may think they know of me, but they have no idea who I really am. Not even I do. I AM whoever I decide to become, no matter who others think I was. I’ve reinvented myself many times, because I
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“Dad, can I eat what you’re eating for breakfast?” “Son, that’s a LOT of food. It’ll take some practice.” “But Dad, didn’t you know: muscles are made of food! If I want to be stronger...
“Dad, can I eat what you’re eating for breakfast?” “Son, that’s a LOT of food. It’ll take some practice.” “But Dad, didn’t you know: muscles are made of food! If I want to be stronger than you, I have to eat better than you.” “Haha! You’re right. Now that you figured out my secret, I’ll always have to give you just a little bit less than me.” “DAD!!!”
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Back Squat 3-3-3-3-3-3-3 Post loads to comments. Log results online (Beyond the Whiteboard)     Photo: "Thanks again for your website and the WOD’s. Even without a CF gym in Miles it is great that i can follow y...
Back Squat 3-3-3-3-3-3-3 Post loads to comments. Log results online (Beyond the Whiteboard)     Photo: "Thanks again for your website and the WOD’s. Even without a CF gym in Miles it is great that i can follow your program and compare myself to the others at Crossfit Rocks via the comment section of your website- Erin"      
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Just a thought if you didn’t have anything else for here. Will have to update hyperlink to the latest show … this one goes to May 17 video
Just a thought if you didn’t have anything else for here. Will have to update hyperlink to the latest show … this one goes to May 17 video
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The Wallzzz both overhead on Friday. Workout: 20 Burpees 200 meter run 30 Box Jump (20/24in) 400 meter run 40 Ball Slam (20/30#) 600 meter run 5 Rope climbs 600 meter run 40 Balls Slam 400 meter run 30 Box Jump 200 meter run 20 Burpees  ...
The Wallzzz both overhead on Friday. Workout: 20 Burpees 200 meter run 30 Box Jump (20/24in) 400 meter run 40 Ball Slam (20/30#) 600 meter run 5 Rope climbs 600 meter run 40 Balls Slam 400 meter run 30 Box Jump 200 meter run 20 Burpees  Thanks to everyone for coming out to the beach day, what a day it was!
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Rest Day Enlarge image Kenneth Leverich, Event 4, Southern California Regional. Josh Bridges Takes First On Event 4 - [video]...
Rest Day Enlarge image Kenneth Leverich, Event 4, Southern California Regional. Josh Bridges Takes First On Event 4 - [video]...
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CrossFit Kids CrossFit Kids Initiative: Hope Floats CrossFit Kids Homework Define: Aver Solve: The difference of two numbers is 15 and one-fifth of their sum is 9. What are the two numbers?
CrossFit Kids CrossFit Kids Initiative: Hope Floats CrossFit Kids Homework Define: Aver Solve: The difference of two numbers is 15 and one-fifth of their sum is 9. What are the two numbers?
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Last week a naive young girl wrote on my timeline, “Stick to posting photos of your abs and shoulders. No girl thinks these photos of your garden are sexy. Go back to fighting MMA. THAT shit is sexy. What’s sexy about shoving...
Last week a naive young girl wrote on my timeline, “Stick to posting photos of your abs and shoulders. No girl thinks these photos of your garden are sexy. Go back to fighting MMA. THAT shit is sexy. What’s sexy about shoving your hands in manure? Your losing my attention.” Darlin, I’m a 43 year old father with a broken eye, busted teeth and more irrigation ditches on his face than the Nile’s got tributaries. I’m fortunate enough to have a beautiful, near-sighted wife who doesn’t care what I look like despite the 17 years we’ve known each other. I am merely a simple man who hasn’t tried to be sexy for a very long time. I know the peace of building something with my own hands, and laying them in soil to bring new sustainability to my community and family. I do this because I have known the anguish of a discontented soul seeking distractions from a mind lacking tranquility. I know how to fight and have the medals and memories collecting dust. I have no more aspirations for glory, as I know the costs of fighting are not bloodied cuts and broken bones, but the emotional repercussions of visiting violence upon an aggressor even when your actions are entirely reasonable and justifiable. Likewise, I don’t care much for politics because no matter the side, politicians manage to make things worse. I haven’t met a man of character among them that I’d allow to protect and nurture my children without my supervision. So, I depend upon my own shoulders and gut to make choices regardless of how much of a mess they’ve made things. That’s why I’m fit. Not to be sexy but ready to carry the burden of responsibilities alone through hardships. And I’m not particularly puritanical about sexiness, living by some lofty moral code. Despite working with and for some of the world’s most significant religious leaders, I don’t care much for religion. Institutions always seem to degenerate into tyrannical positions speaking on behalf of the Creator. If God created simple men like me, I think I’m totally comfortable listening to my own good sense, without someone needing to tell me who should not be allowed into Heaven and who should go to Hell. I don’t try to avoid sexiness not try to impose modesty. Being sexy just isn’t my goal. I don’t need to attract sexual attention, so sorry you’ve been under the impression that I was trying to hold your focus by posting photos to my page. Fitness for me is not about trying to please someone else’s sense of beauty, but rather it is for expanding my own ability to be my best use to those whom I can help. You are better than you’re allowing yourself to be, deeper than the shallow surface you’re permitting yourself to dig and wider than you’re believing you can explore. Needing to be sexy cannot bring you satisfaction, rather only fleeting pleasures which leave you lonely and starving for something greater. You are all you need. No man or woman can complete you. You are already complete. Get back to the basics. Get a feel for something simple, honest and useful. In anything, you can find yourself, because you’re already and always there. very respectfully, Scott Sonnon www.facebook.com/ScottSonnon
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My professor told me to leave University, “Mr. Sonnon, do you want to regurgitate the words of dead men, or inspire others with your wild questions? You cannot inspire others with answers. The secret to living an uninspired life is...
My professor told me to leave University, “Mr. Sonnon, do you want to regurgitate the words of dead men, or inspire others with your wild questions? You cannot inspire others with answers. The secret to living an uninspired life is to have an answer for everything. First one LIVES and sees the folly of believing that you know the answers, then one inspires others with the humility to ask better questions. Leave here, and take the daring adventure which frightens you most. If you emerge from the other side, you’ll have your inspirational message.” I thought to myself, “But how do I know what to do or go, when I don’t even know who I am? I feel like I don’t know anything!” Clairvoyantly reading my expression, he continued, “The fundamental function of wisdom is not to answer questions, but to question answers. Do not foolishly attempt to give people all your answers. Only by going through your own trials and tribulations will you realize that no answer will ever suffice; only asking better questions.” As I set out on my own, leaving the shelter of the University and the warm blanket which others’ words provided, answer after answer failed to perfectly fit my problems. Each needed to be modified, adapted and revised. As a result, every person I met taught me something I didn’t know by forcing me to scrap my ill-fitting solutions, and ask better questions. Voltaire wrote, “Judge a man not by his questions rather than by his answers.” When I was younger, I thought my goal in life was to learn all the answers, at least to my problems and issues. But as I’ve grown, I’ve learned that the goal is to ask better questions about the opportunities with which we are challenged. Instead of asking these questions: Why do I have these problems? Why can’t I figure out the answer to this situation? Why doesn’t anyone save me from this, and stop this pain? Ask yourself: How could this challenge secretly serve me? How could this pain or hardship silently benefit me? What advantage could it possibly bring my experience? What opportunity could gracefully enduring this create? Very Respectfully, Scott Sonnon www.facebook.com/ScottSonnon
score: 1 about 17 hours ago