Today’s workout was simple, to put it lightly.
Like I say often, simple doesn’t mean its easy.
The structure of today’s training was designed to provide you with an opportunity to make a decision to stay in the fight with your team mates, furthering your understanding about what your limits actually are and fueling the action that is necessary to reach new levels of training for the mind.
After all you are only doing 5 reps at a time right? This occurs in the last ten minutes of training. We keep the reps low, we keep the movements less technical, and the time spent in battle relatively low to give you the choice to hide in plain sight from yourself and “get through the workout” or create the momentum that is necessary to accelerate you to new areas in your life. Ask yourself things like:
- Are you willing to keep pushing when it really gets hard?
- Does it even matter to you at all if you are letting down someone you are working with?
- Is quitting an appealing option?
Do you really think that training is any different at all than what you face in life? The fact of the matter is that YOU HAVE THE ANSWERS to most obstacles you deal with. Its in you already. Don’t delay in your life any more, what the fuck are you waiting for?
WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENTLY IF YOU KNEW THAT FAILURE IS IMPOSSIBLE?
There are a few things I want to bring to light when you look at the data from todays workout:
- The variance from the top scores to the “lowest” is very small. Today I assigned teams which encourages team work and communication with people that you might not have worked before. Despite this, you all stepped up and did a hell of a job so this shows me that as a unit we have a mission first mindset. This is beautiful and contributes directly to the culture Nick and I are most proud of.
- When we do training that is competitive with scores, often times it is a slippery slope that people either shy away from all together or it gets to the point where people might look out for themselves to get a better score etc. Well when I look at the scores what I am analyzing is our ability to work together using the competitive nature as a tool to raise the standards across all hours, or Sisu as a whole. When we train for a score, there is your input, your teams input, your class input, and then Sisu vs everybody else in the city. It goes beyond you. The data shows that no matter what team I am creating, you are all excelling at team work, accountability, and effort and that is the equation for success. Average score per group per class with randomized groups: 44.4. This is outstanding Sisu.
- Moving forward, when we come in to train, analyze your mindset. We are all at battle with ourselves constantly, however challenge yourself to push your small group to elevate the standards for your class which in turn does the same for the rest of the classes and so forth. Taking pride in your groups and your class is one component of the over all pride in Sisu. It’s important.
In conclusion, you guys kicked ass today and I had the pleasure of being a part of the positive energy and culture that keeps Nick and I moving forward with our own mission.
I hope you all know that we are just getting started…Individual Shout Outs:1- Heaviest weight in workout: Nick Hargens (40 lbs)2- Most Laps: Mason (10 laps!)3- Most consecutive times doing this workout: Alyssa Rinke (2x)
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