Thursday 081030
October 30, 2008
7 rounds
- 10 Sandbag Squat Cleans 60/40 lbs.
- 10 Pull-ups
Jon Gilson is a better and more prolific author than me but I had the same Greg Glassman learning experience that he describes in the article quoted below.
In October of 2006, Greg Glassman gave me the most important lesson of my life. It has nothing to do with barbells or pull-ups, sweat or pain. In fact, it has very little to do with exercise at all.
His words, paraphrased and non-profound: The pursuit of excellence is rewarded.
Simple and axiomatic, it would be easy to dismiss this lesson as self-help drivel. Yet put into action, it is the most powerful thing on the planet. It’s taken me two years to appreciate its potency, and ten short months to see its effects.
I’ve pared it down for my own use, coining a three-word phrase that reminds me that today is not just another day: Better than yesterday.
Read the whole article at AgainFaster.
We don’t have a “Things We Suck At” board yet in the office at EmerFit but if we did right now it would include creating cool T-Shirts and keeping them in stock, getting all our clients on automatic payment via electronic transfer, spreading the word of intense functional and varied fitness more broadly within the Northern Colorado community, and figuring out how to make continue progress on all things EmerFit without burning-out. That said, we are making significant process on all of these things.
Anything else you think should be on our “Things We Suck At” board? Or what about a “Things We Rock At” board?
I am not arrogant enough to tell you what I think might go on the later board.
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Things Emerfit has achieved-
Creating a Team with a supportive and encouraging environment.
A place where we (athletes) can learn to push ourselves beyond our current levels of performance and challenge our ways of thinking to move us from our comfort zone.
Good job Emerfit!
PS I don’t think it is arrogent to know your strengths. People need to hear what they are!!!!