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"ACHIEVEMENT - "Being on the cutting edge of triumph requires attaining goals that lie beyond the scope of expectation."
EFFORT - "The force necessary to go beyond Self-imposed limitations to achieve the competitive advantage." --- Ernie Barnes"
Personal Info And Background:
Real Name:
Neil
Sex:
Male
Age:
36
Location:
Kuwait
Occupation:
Civilian Contractor - Iraq/Kuwait
Personal Website:
Gym:
Gym on Base
Gym Location:
where you train is less important than how you tra
When I Started:
Feb, 2006
How I Started:
I believe that where you train is less important than how you train and that who you train with is what matters more that what gear you have.
Why I Love It:
People on BB.com have asked me what is CrossFit, here is answer:
The CrossFit Program was developed to enhance an individual’s competency at all physical tasks. Our athletes are trained to perform successfully at multiple, diverse, and randomized physical challenges. This fitness is demanded of military and police personnel, firefighters, and many sports requiring total or complete physical prowess. CrossFit
has proven effective in these arenas.
Aside from the breadth or totality of fitness the CrossFit Program seeks, our program is distinctive, if not unique, in its focus on maximizing neuroendocrine response, developing power, cross-training with multiple training modalities, constant training and practice with functional movements, and the development of successful diet strategies.
Our athletes are trained to bike, run, swim, and row at short, middle, and long distances guaranteeing exposure and
competency in each of the three main metabolic pathways. We train our athletes in gymnastics from rudimentary to advanced movements garnering great capacity at controlling the body both dynamically and statically while maximizing strength to weight ratio and flexibility. We also place a
heavy emphasis on Olympic Weightlifting having seen this sport’s unique ability to develop an athletes’ explosive
power, control of external objects, and mastery of critical motor recruitment patterns. And finally we encourage and
assist our athletes to explore a variety of sports as a vehicle to express and apply their fitness.
An effective approach.
In gyms and health clubs throughout the world the typical workout consists of isolation movements and extended aerobic sessions. The fitness community from trainers to the magazines has the exercising public believing that lateral raises, curls, leg extensions, sit-ups and the like combined with 20-40 minute stints on the stationary bike or treadmill are going to lead to some kind of great fitness. Well, at CrossFit we work exclusively with compound movements and shorter high intensity cardiovascular sessions. We’ve replaced the lateral raise with pushpress,
the curl with pull-ups, and the leg extension with squats. For
every long distance effort our athletes will do fi ve or six at short distance.
Why? Because compound or functional movements and high intensity or
anaerobic cardio is radically more effective at eliciting nearly any desired fitness result. Startlingly, this is not a matter of opinion but solid irrefutable scientific fact and yet the marginally effective old ways persist and are nearly universal. Our approach is consistent with what is practiced in elite training programs associated with major university athletic teams and professional sports. CrossFit endeavors to bring state-of-the-art coaching techniques to the general public and athlete who haven’t access to current technologies, research, and coaching methods.
How I Stay Motivated:
Staying motivated is easy because there are TOO many CF workouts where I need to improve on my time, and weight used.
BB Accomplishments:
It may not sound like a major milestone, but to go from 0 pull ups to 8 dead hang pulls ups is HUGE for me, and that is only the beginning. By December '08, I should be able to do over 25 dead hangs and over 35 kipping pull ups.
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Physical and Spiritual Progress, Not Perfection.
Last Updated: May 11, 2008 12:34am
Progress Pictures
Jun 15, 2005
Jul 1, 2007
Here Iam towards the end of my deployment in Iraq with the Army. With 7 weeks left of the tour, I attacked the chow hall with a vengeance! I was popping out of my seams. I had lost some friends and I think I was depressed and ate too often and much.
I'm About to run a 10 miler, this is prior to discovering CrossFit.
ACHIEVEMENT - "Being on the cutting edge of triumph requires attaining goals that lie beyond the scope of expectation."
EFFORT - "The force necessary to go beyond Self-imposed limitations to achieve the competitive advantage." --- Ernie Barnes
Goal (Long):
By July 1st I want to weigh in at 164 and be less than 14% body fat!!!
So I decided to change up my workout routine somewhat. I'm a nite owl, and thus 11pm bed time, albeit still early, is more conducive to my choices. I also hate mornings. Therefore, lunch seems PERFECT time to workout. A quick walk from work - to my base housing dorm- to gym is a...
Wait a minute! Pants that were too tight only 2 months ago??!! OMG!! That is awesome!!! I used to love dropping down in size and playing "Look I can pull my jeans down without unbuttoning them". I got some weird looks in public but, I didn't care??!! I'll buy you a belt! -Gab
I thought you left already? What happened? I know what happened... You just couldn't leave me. Am I right? Yesterday, I did 20 minutes on the elliptical and 35 minutes of lifting. Now, I usually have a plan of attack for lifting days but, yesterday I just did whatever muscles weren't that badly from YOUR workout. Now they all hurt, Thanks my "friend"!
I did it!! I did it!! My @ss has been Officially Whooped!! YOU weren’t kidding!! What do I get? That's 2 days of self flagellation (for those keeping track)!!
No I didn't but I really want to keep looking into it. I know an ultimate fighter who wants to get into it too. It seems like the perfect training for that kind of sport. How's everything else going for you?
hi! surf in may here is good! I agree re your philosophy that fitness/muscle training is a means to an end.....great to have the power when you need it.
Thank you so much :)I guess that I always try to make the best of everything, positive thinking and always do the things you love. And I never pretend to be something/someone I'm not. :)
Yeah, "ghost rider" sums up the couch thing, You know what I am saying. You like my nonsense, don't pretend you don't. Now, I have to ask you, you want me to look for gear for a pic or do your confusing workout first??!! I am confused and blonde. lol
LOL! Thank you soooo much! Just wait for 3 more months and you will see what a success it is!!! You are really really sweet!! Hows your training going?!
