Rachel stretches after the 5pm workout.
This is how I want you. On the floor, mobilizing after a workout, and about to rehydrate.
After the workout.
Because, quite honestly, drinking water during a WOD that lasts less than 20 minutes is just another way of announcing to the world that you are a p****. You really might as well stand up and shout those words. It’s not the water your body needs during those 20 minutes — your biological systems will survive if you don’t hydrate during those 20 minutes — but it’s a break that you THINK you need. It’s your mind calling the shots, not your body. It is your mental discipline that is failing, not your physical capacity.
20 min or less: that’s all I’m asking. All-out, balls-to-the-wall effort for a maximum of 20 min of your day. No stopping, no drinking, no quitting. You can cry if you want to and you can puke if you have to. But for the love of all that is Chuck Norris, don’t freakin’ drink water during those 20 minutes.
Are you feelin’ me here?
So, the next time that you’re in the middle of a metcon that lasts less than 20 min and you decide you must take a sip of water, I have something I want you to do. Shout these words loud and clear so that everybody in the room can hear you: “I AM TAKING A BREAK.” I want ‘em loud, really loud. Loud enough that the folks walking by on Main Street can hear you. Loud enough that your own pride winces and you want to kick yourself in the a**. Then you can sip your water before you get back to the WOD.
Or you can just keep working hard, not embarrass yourself, and drink water afterward. Your choice. Pride or p****. You decide.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:06 am
I’m guessing we’re doing a 20 minute AMRAP tonight for St. Patrick’s Day. WARNING: I might have a few (read:
beers this afternoon.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:08 am
that was suppose to be the number “8″ followed by “)” but apparently it’s a smiley face with sunglasses… totally ruins the joke.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:13 am
I kind of like the smiley face with the beers.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:27 am
That’s my foot right before I almost kicked Jillian in the face!
March 17th, 2010 at 9:41 am
Oh — and I will be in the 5pm class tonight. And I might even coach the 6pm.
It’s 10:40 am and my hair is already on fire. What are YOU going to do today?
March 17th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Chuck Norris NEVER drinks water
March 17th, 2010 at 10:11 am
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris
March 17th, 2010 at 10:11 am
You f**cking crack me up….I take wod breaks sometimes to apply lipstick….I’m coming to play with u today…..
March 17th, 2010 at 10:12 am
They once made a Chuck Norris toilet paper, but it wouldn’t take shit from anybody.
March 17th, 2010 at 10:13 am
But I am heavy sweater and I get chalk in my mouth all the time
March 17th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Nate, put the chalk on your hands not in your mouth… Just sayin’
March 17th, 2010 at 10:20 am
where are all my posts going??? booo
March 17th, 2010 at 11:05 am
i like the hard chalk not the puffy pillow
March 17th, 2010 at 11:12 am
Can you say “corn-hole” that’s what I’m doing today!!! Be there @ 5 to stretch and roll (between hydration’s)and help encourage people.
March 17th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Rockstar, you and I think alike.
March 17th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Anybody see Coach B’s tire on facebook today? OUTSTANDING… That’s a freak’n tire!
April 29th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
F$%#@&ing A right…This comes from a former sitter and sipper..since stopping for breaks my intensity and focus has vastly improved…The question I ask now is what is it going to take to push myself BEYOND the bullshit …I now know that all limitations are SELF imposed !! thanks Cheryl xoxo