
“Ask yourself ‘Where can I win?’” ~ Stephen Pierce It’s been too long since I posted, but life has been very hectic these past two weeks. I’ll try to keep it short and sweet and do a few more thorough posts a bit later. I completed the WKC Strength and Conditioning certification at the Ice…
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Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes~Author Unknown I decided to try a 10-minute snatch test today, with the goal of hitting my Rank III numbers of 70+70. Unfortunately, I’m such a rock-head sometimes that I completely messed up the math as I sought to set up a…
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“Winning isn’t always finishing first. Sometimes winning is just finishing.” ~ Manuel Diotte Please accept my apologies for going almost a whole week before posting again. I’m usually better about that, but our evenings were pretty full last week and I didn’t have the time to train and write, so the writing went by the…
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Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”~ Mark Victor Hansen…
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It is the great north wind that made the Vikings. ~ Scandnavian Proverb I banged out my second VWC workout on the 15:15 protocol. I had planned on doing 28 sets but once I was into it, I though it would be prudent to stop at 24. I filmed this one again to check on…
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There’s only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that’s if we quit. ~ Author Unknown Our Enter the Kettlebell journey continued into the second week of the Rite of Passage workouts. This week we keep our “rungs” at three, but do four ladders. We’ve also upped our reps on inverted rows to five…
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