Thursday: Member Spotlight time!
Ok, it’s Thursday, and that means it’s Member Spotlight time…except this Thursday it’s a special edition. A super secret special edition.
Why so super special secret you ask?
Wednesday: Team High Voltage!
Our first ‘Team High Voltage’ meeting is taking place tonight, Wednesday at 7pm at the box. It is an information meeting only, and I hope to see a ton of you there!
Wednesday’s meeting, as well as participation on the Team, is open to ANYONE and EVERYONE! Team High Voltage is designed to be a community driven, club foundation – we have set the team up to have room for 50+ people who are committed to taking their training to the next level. This means that even if you think you won’t make it to the Regionals or the Games next year, you’re invited to be a part!
Tuesday…It’s coming…And You’re going to be Ready!
You can feel it in the air – Memorial Day Murph is right around the corner. It’s one of CrossFit’s most notoriously difficult workouts to finish, but it’s also our biggest Community event of the year. So how does all this work?
Just like everything else we do, we’ve designed this event to have a progression appropriate for each of your individual level of fitness.
There are going to be 4 different workloads to ‘buy in’, along with a partner option. Remember, this workout is supposed to be ‘hard’, hard for where you are on Monday, May 28. As you get fitter, “Murph” gets ‘harder’.
I <3 CrossFit High Voltage
Hey Volts and Vixens~ It was quite a weekend out in Pomona! Each team member did some pretty incredible things at this competition. But nothing was more incredible than seeing our very first CrossFit High Voltage Vixen do a muscle-up. Oh, who you ask?? Well it is none other than our very own Kaite Schwing!! YEAAH BUDDY!
Our team battled through three competitive days of challenging WODs and gave it their all. It was Full Effort, Full Victory for our Volts and Vixens who placed twelfth in the SoCal CrossFit Regionals, making it all the way to the final group for the second year in a row!! Nothing could be better than standing shoulder to shoulder with everyone from the gym, yelling and cheering for our team.
Full Effort is Full Victory
Well, it’s finally here. Regionals are this weekend in Pomona at the Fairplex.
Our Regional Team is going into battle, and representing our entire Community. We’ve trained every day with you all in mind.
I get the question a lot – how do you think the team is going to do? Are you ready for this, that, and the other?
The only thing we can control is our effort. You cannot control who your opponents are, who the judges are, or what the WOD’s are. Only effort.
Getting ready for this competition has forced me to think back to when I was training for the Olympics. I fought all the time, some competitions went well, others…not so much. Most confusing for me was there were tournaments that I won and wasn’t very happy with my performance. There were times I lost and I knew the effort I gave in the ring and in the training leading up to the competition was every ounce of me that I had to give.
It was strange to disconnect outside results with my inner satisfaction.
Then a really interesting thing happened – the more I focused on my effort and performance, the more I won. I almost never thought about winning. Really. Sure, my end game was to win, but that tells you nothing about how to win, and most importantly WHY you want to win. I wanted to win because that meant I gave more than anyone else and that I dug deeper than anyone else – and that is what winning meant for me at its deepest level.
I’m honored to go in to battle this weekend with 7 of our hardest working Volts and Vixens who are in search of the same thing.
Now it’s just time to throw down.
“Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full Effort is Full Victory.”
See you all in Pomona –
-Tim
Want to follow the action this weekend?
Here’s where you can find us (in Pomona, and online)
- To follow all the SoCal Regional updates on Twitter – http://twitter.com/CFGSoCalRegion – this is the official CF SoCal Games Twitter feed
- The official SoCal CrossFit Games Page: at http://games.crossfit.com/region/southern-california/
- High Voltage updates will be happening on Facebook – www.facebook.com/cfvolts and www.facebook.com/crossfithighvoltage (like this page)
- And also on Twitter – www.twitter.com/cfvolts
- And for those of you who want to watch our videos in realtime – Tyler downloaded the Qik video app – so if you go to the site www.qik.com/the-ty you can watch live action our events! Welcome to the future.
And here’s when we’ll be up:
Heat times for Friday, Sat, & Sun.
- Friday – WOD 1 for Teams starts at 10am and goes through 11am – High Voltage will probably be up around 10:20am
- Friday – WOD 2 for Teams starts at 1:30 and goes through 2:45pm. High Voltage will probably be up around 1:30pm.
- Saturday – WOD 3 for Teams starts at 9am and goes through 9:45am. High Voltage heat TBD.
- Saturday – WOD 4 for Teams starts at 12:00pm and goes through 1:40pm. High Voltage heat TBD.
- Sunday – WOD 5 for Teams starts at 8am and goes through 8:45am for the Womens team, and 9:45-10:30am for the Men’s team. High Voltage heat TBD.
- Sunday – WOD 6 is for the top 12 teams in the Region only. These teams will be decided after the 5th WOD is complete. This WOD goes from 12:15pm to 12:45pm.
http://games.crossfit.com/region/southern-california/schedule
- Show your support for the High Voltage team with a status donation of ‘Full Effort is Full Victory’ and let the High Voltage Team know that everyone has their back!
Friday’s Training: (reminder – closed Saturday & Sunday)
All Levels CrossFit |
Level 1 CrossFit |
Murph Prep, Day 12/30 -
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| Bx4 B1. strict press 4-4-4-4 B2. ring pull ups amrap -2; (4 sets) looking for parallel grip.C. – Murph Prep- tabata squat for max reps - bottom to bottom = rx+ |
WOD: Tabata This variation-
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