Sports Fitness

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!

Rest Day Enlarge image Kenneth Leverich, Event 4, Southern California Regional. Josh Bridges Takes First On Event 4 - [video]...

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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 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

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

Rest Day Corey Costanza & Dog Riley

Five rounds for time of: Row 500 meters 135lbs 60/40kg Bench press, 15 reps. Post results to comments

For a big guy he does some impressive muscle ups: natty?

2013 CrossFit Games Regional Event 2 Complete the following in 7 minutes: 3 Overhead squats Begin with 135, 185, 225 or 255 pounds (or scale as needed) and increase by 10 pound increments to as heavy as you can within the seven minutes. Do not use a rack. Post loads to comments. Enlarge image Danielle Horan, 1st place after day...