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CrossFit Asheville WODS • January 6, 2010, at 10:50 pm
Birthday Slam (Sprit and Flesh)
Today I am 41 years old, but feel younger than I have in ages. This is in spite of the fact that for the past two and a half weeks I’ve been limited to an average of 3-4 hours of interrupted sleep per night. (The newly born are to be excused for all manner of impertinences.) My happy state is directly due to the life I have lived over the past year, which included many hours of earnest study and vigorous exercise, fueled by careful, conscious, mostly very “clean” eating. My advice to anyone who might listen would be: “give yourself life: through exercise, diet, self-discipline, and study.” I hope that the fact that the person who suggests such principles has only lately begun to implement them in his own life, after 39-40 years on the earth, does nothing to tarnish their value. Do not let my own failures and struggles with these principles discredit them in your eyes. Training Cycle: Week 2/6 (Work Week)
Running Hiatus Week 5/8 No Alcohol Month 1/5 Diet: More-Strict-Paleo-Zone (Blocks: 20-22 pro, 50-58 fat, 16-19 cho) Learn Wisdom from Others, Or Yourself, Not MeIndeed, there is no reason why you should learn these ideals from me. Does not life recommend itself? “Wisdom cries out in the street; in the squares she raises her voice” (Prov. 1:20). Such principles can be learned by anyone who actually pays attention to the philosophers, the physicians, the scientists, saints, yogis and arhats. And there are so many of them. But do we listen? In my (prior) life I always approached spiritual wisdom as a curiosity and knowledge of the physical self as highly theoretical. The self-discipline recommended by the philosophers seemed to be an impractical (or even undesirable) state which could be studied and known without internalizing it. I always liked it when St. Augustine prayed, “give me chastity and continence, but not yet.” When did he expect honestly to desire it? What is wrong with “now”? Indeed. Here’s a great question for us all: “what’s wrong with now?” Maybe such desire comes only when we truly confront, acknowledge, and accept the reality of death (and all of its masks, such as oblivion, pain, suffering, disease, old age, transience, impermanence, and co-dependent origination). Almost nobody behaves as if they truly believe in “death;” they eat and drink and behave towards themselves and towards others as if “death,” could never issue from their actions. (Probably this is due to the fact that only the living “experience” death. All of us here are “alive,” at least nominally.) Augustine believed that chastity and continence might earn him an eternal rest with God; spiritual chastity was his solution to the finitude of material life. I don’t know whether God approves of or desires for us a life lived merely in pursuit of optimal health, or chastity and continence if that’s your thing (but I suspect not); but I do know that when we live materially and physically disordered lives, then our spiritual lives are likely more or less occluded, and “eternal life” (as I understand it, as including the love we must express in the present relations of this life) could be precluded. In other words, I don’t believe you can express compassion for your fellow human beings or pursue a higher level of humanity within your own human being without also being concerned about your own physical and psychic well-being. To appropriate, or steal something from Jesus and take it out of context: “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye” (Luke 6:42). Why should we hear preachers who have not come out of Babylon? Or who cling to belief in a doctrine (which is easy) rather than pursuing excellence, virtue, and power in their own lives (which is hard)? The sermon is undone by the lifestyle. But enough prattling. This is just supposed to be a record of my WOD today. Warm-UpThe warm up was fine. I took it easy, then did my push-ups (20), pull-ups (about 6 in total), wall ball shots (20, w/ 12 lb ball), round the world (10 per side, 25 lb kettlebell), overhead squats (10). Strength: Front SquatResult: 5 x 95 / 5 x 115 / 5 x 125 / 5 x 135 / 5 x 135 / 5 x 135 Volume: 3,700 Analysis: I did not go for a 5 rep max, nor achieve one as it happens. This session was comparable in volume to my last effort at a 3 rep max on 11/18/09, where I got 3 x 155 and also put up two sets of 5 x 135. I probably should have tried a 5 rep set at 145, and thus at least tied my previous PR. WOD: “Slam Dunk”
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Total reps: 169 At least, that’s how I remember it went. As Rx’d except I did box step ups (which are not, strictly speaking, a modification). Done with a 10 lb ball. This WOD was a great way to start my birthday. 3 comments to Birthday Slam (Sprit and Flesh) |
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Matt, my friend you seem to spend way to much time analyzing your feelings, and not enough tine living it. You have made remarkable progress, but reading all your post I tend till feel maybe you have a tendency to over intellectualize your position. Take a clue from Carlos Castaneda create your own reality. Maybe without the hallucinogenics, but maybe that would be not as much fun. Crossfit pushes your body, but don’t neglect pushing your mind (mental fortitude). David
*Seem* to or *do*? that’s the question. Writing is just one of the ways I have always lived, I guess.
“For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and
beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel
of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the
magnificient here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours
only for a time.” -D.H. Lawrence
Way to live, DB!