We sold our cow, We sold our cow, We have no room for your bull now!
Looking for some comradeship as you put pavement under your feet? Starting at 6pm this Tuesday, April 20th, come check out Balance Gym’s run club. Get together with other runners and tackle a six mile run (or feel free to scale back)!
Not only is the distance scalable to each individual, but so are the post-race recovery options:
Member of CrossFit Balance? Hop into the 7:15p CrossFit Everyday Group Workout!
Need to counterbalance all the runnin’ and liftin’? Stick around for Yoga for Athletes– with me!
Not a member of Balance Gym? No biggie, as the run club is open (with a liability waiver– duh) to the public and the group classes afterwards are available for an affordable drop-in rate.
Where are we going this week?
Start: 1111 14th Street NW, headed South
2 Miles: To the Monument’s Base and Back 3 Miles: Reflecting Pool and Back 4 Mile Turn Around: Go around the Lincoln Memorial, Past the Monument, and Back 5 Mile Turn Around: Sneak up 12th Street from the Mall
The Sizzlin' Songs of Summer are slowly starting to come out-- I can feel the buzz. Check out what I'm listening to over at http://www.midcityyoga.com/
Today in CrossFit we worked on a lifting technique that’s familiar to a lot of my friends. Not because they participate in functional training, but because it’s a little like what happens on Friday nights. No, not getting drunk and losing your car. Think dance floor: droppin’ it like its hot. Back Squats, you see, are (at the most basic) lowering your hips with your knees a little out, the back extended, and a bunch of weight resting across the back of your shoulder. You may have seen something like it in a rap video.
This isn’t going to be a post about how to squat– talk to a trainer for that kind of info (seriously: real life is so much different than what a even a goodyoutube video can prep).
No, today I wanted to talk about being honest with yourself.
If you don’t take your hips lower than your knees in a squat, you’re cheating yourself out of a huge strength gaining opportunity (isn’t that why we lift weights?) and even have the potential to lose some of our range of motion. Why would we allow that to happen? Because going all the way is, without question, harder.
Like many little white lies we tell ourselves, its easier to do just a little less, such as going just shy of breaking parallel in our squat. It makes things easier, you work less hard– but ultimately, whats the point? Wasted energy, and on top of that, a little bit of dishonesty, too.
Dishonesty, it would seem, comes in degrees. I mean, you’ll be able to knock out more squats, but are you actually “doing the work”? When tempted to do less than your best, remind yourself that “this is not useful.”
Then work to cultivate the opposite.
Why?
The yoga sutras say that as truthfulness (satya) is achieved, the fruits of actions naturally result according to the will of the yogi. If you desire to be better, and you really want to get what you want– you know real gains and real improvement– you gotta be honest with yourself.
Eschew the aesthetic or the illusion and go for whats real. Cultivate the opposite of dishonesty, reminding yourself when prompted otherwise that “this is not useful” and let a natural flow of goodness into your life that will also bear fruit.
wants you to come to his 7pm hot yoga class at @[363580466452:142:STROGA] tonight! @[100095036335482:2048:Mid City Yoga]'s site is up for more information http://midcityyoga.com
is on his way to DC's Clean And Sober Streets running club. Running taught me perseverance and how to practice achievement-- heres hoping I can share that with DC's homeless population. Or at least give a little yoga to 'em.
is so excited for tomorrow's big National Cherry Blossom Festival - Yoga event tomorrow at 11am over by the Washington Monument's Sylvan Theater (15th & Independence). I'm on stage, so you'll know a friendly face along with the other 1200 blissed out ones.
is really excited for the National Marathon tomorrow-- love love love the anticipation of race day. I get my bib number and everything today at the Expo! Will I see you on the race course or afterwards?
is so fucking sick of gender normative marketing! I want a god damn man sized kettlebell in (IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK) glitter pink! If you're gonna make it in a 5lbs size, make it in a 24lbs size, PLEASE!
I want the the poster on the right hands side framed. It's such a misappropriation of Keith Haring's style that it has gone past offensive and back into powerfully positive. Totally subversively awesome.
"Rosa Parks did not move to the front of the bus to support sodomy." âBarb Davis White, Tea Party candidate for Minnesotaâs 5th Congressional District, testifying yesterday before legislators on a gay marriage bill
is teaching a 10am yoga class at lululemon athletica Logan Circle today. Come spend an hour doing your best to be your best-- there is no better Valentine's Day gift to you or your loved ones!
noticed that on the Ford ad he just saw the hottie at the lumber yard has a dog named Sea Bass. Thats my dogs nickname. Love it. Sea Bass (from the commercial) doesn't like Chevys. Ha.
saw Pink perform live at the 930 Club with AJ Livsey and it was the best live performance by a pop act I've ever seen. Kylie comes REALLY close. Think: Blonde Ambition Madonna.
had a wonderful morning teaching a warming, heart-opening community yoga class at lululemon athletica Logan Circle, followed by some (snow?) bunny time. Now its time to make like a hare and run 6 miles. 🙂
snowGASM INTERRUPTED: This JUST in: Royksopp and Hercules & Love Affair produced tracks for Kelis's new album. Other collaborators include: La Roux, diplo, switch, david guetta. omgomgomg.
is digging the heck out of bt's "These Hopeful Machines." Brilliant, etc. Also: I came in last in today's CrossFit challenge (FRAN). This will not happen next time.
A very cool guy who makes everyone laugh. Once you meet him, you will want to be his friend right away. He is super cute and very good-looking. He has amazing taste in music, clothes, food, everything. Every girl secretly wishes that he could be her boyfriend and everyone knows he likes commitment (and just broke up with his gf). However strange and weird he may be, he's perfect. In his own little way, he is perfect.
fucking motherfucker son of a bitch I'll fucking kill you.... *puts on tights and layers*... five miles and I'll hate everything less. Eat it, snowcunt.
is teaching his first open/level II class at Shakti today. 12:15p! Wring out your toxins just in time for a three day weekend! 9th & N St NW. Twists and arm balances galore!
ran 5.5 before leaving to teach. 90 minute vinyasa upon my return home. If anyone would like to practice with me from 3-4:30, you're welcome to. Core and inversion work, fwiw.
's kick ass first real life human day of the New Year: 5.5 miles ran, kitchen, dining, and bathroom cleaned. In that order. Then dancin' & laughing with the boys (no drankin')! I'm in love with this day.
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