.Hero Workout of the Day
"CrossFit Website
Some of you may be familiar with the cult workout community named "CrossFit". The theory behind crossfit is 'general physical preparedness', which is achieved through a workout of the day posted to the website nightly. Basically, the workouts are a giant haze-fest, and tax your body through every channel possible- endurance, strength, power, strength-endurance, balance, etc., using conventional weights, kettlebells, pullup bars, good old roads, medicine balls, etc. One day you could be asked to do 400 meter sprints followed by 50 body weight squats for a total of 6 rounds as fast as you can, the next day you might be asked to do as many rounds as possible in 30 minutes of 225 pound deadlifts and 20 pullups.
The cool thing about it is that the crossfit community is packed with military members, many of them from the special operations community, firefighters, police officers and the like. While most of the standard workouts are named female names (like hurricanes...which represents the disaster that you feel like afterwards), many of them have been named in honor of fallen service members from Iraq and Afghanistan. That's why I'm talking about this today.
Yesterday was Veteran's Day, so in honor of all that have fallen, my workout partners and I substituted what's called a Hero Workout instead of the prescribed "Fight Gone Bad" workout."
Jake's Life
Some of you may be familiar with the cult workout community named "CrossFit". The theory behind crossfit is 'general physical preparedness', which is achieved through a workout of the day posted to the website nightly. Basically, the workouts are a giant haze-fest, and tax your body through every channel possible- endurance, strength, power, strength-endurance, balance, etc., using conventional weights, kettlebells, pullup bars, good old roads, medicine balls, etc. One day you could be asked to do 400 meter sprints followed by 50 body weight squats for a total of 6 rounds as fast as you can, the next day you might be asked to do as many rounds as possible in 30 minutes of 225 pound deadlifts and 20 pullups.
The cool thing about it is that the crossfit community is packed with military members, many of them from the special operations community, firefighters, police officers and the like. While most of the standard workouts are named female names (like hurricanes...which represents the disaster that you feel like afterwards), many of them have been named in honor of fallen service members from Iraq and Afghanistan. That's why I'm talking about this today.
Yesterday was Veteran's Day, so in honor of all that have fallen, my workout partners and I substituted what's called a Hero Workout instead of the prescribed "Fight Gone Bad" workout."
Jake's Life
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