Bound News 6.19.2022
"Just make it to lunch...." - Dave Castro
In 2012, I had the opportunity to sit next to Dave Castro on the bus from the Stub Hub Center to the Athlete Dinner for the first workout announcement. First off Dave is a great guy, Dave has always been for the athletes, the affiliates, and the community. But up until then our time together was never alone in the arena and he was always focused as was I on the competition at hand. I knew he was a former Navy Seal just from rumors so I asked him about it on the bus. FYI - Dave never talks about his times in the Seals so I felt pretty good he somewhat opened up about it. My major question and what question I ask every Seal. How did you get through it.....?
"All I had to do was make it to lunch....they have to feed you. This will end. So I just told myself to make it to my next meal. I couldn't think about the whole process I would be too overwhelmed. So I focused to make it through each task of that day to lunch." That's always resonated with me since. Whether it was a workout, a stressful situation at the Fire Station, or a stressful situation in my personal life. Eventually, this will end, I will learn from it, I will accept my choices whether the outcome was good or bad, and I will move on to become a better person.
So, if you are having a tough day, a tough situation right now personally, or when you're going through a tough workout. No this will end, you will move on, and you will succeed. Set small goals daily to accomplish the overall goal you want. Work hard, stay disciplined and never give up. Lunch is coming soon and you will have time to relax and see your success.
Check out Dave Castros return interview with Sevan
Bragging Board
- This past week we didn't have any lifts or workouts to PR on. But I think we all can appreciate the efforts we have put in with the heat!
- Logan Brown competed this past weekend at the Cumming Strength and Fitness Summer Classic. He placed 1st obviously!
Bound Radio with 'Neuro-Muscular Physiologists' Brian Fox.
Jimmy and I sit down and ask Brian some straightforward questions:
- what are the most common movement patterns you see CrossFitters or CrossFit clients experience?
- what would you recommend every gym-goer do to stay healthy and mobile?
- how bad is sitting? Is it worse than smoking?
- is holding your phone destroying your wrist mobility and posture?
CrossFit Journal Article of the Week
What Exercise Science Can Learn From CrossFit by Nathan Jenkins
“By tracking the difference in time between workout attempts, we are looking at changes in power. We did not have to study this much longer to come to the understanding that your collection of workout data points represented your work capacity across broad time and modal domains. This is your fitness.”
It is interesting that I had to venture out of the academic realm to find something so profoundly scientific. Here we have, at long last, a definition founded on something measurable, repeatable, and evidence-based—the ability to perform work per unit time; i.e., the ability to produce and sustain power.
I hope the average person understands the importance of this conceptual advance. Before Coach Glassman articulated this idea in these terms, there was no scientifically defensible definition of fitness. It did not exist. But now, with fitness defined as work capacity across broad time and modal domains, we have a framework for understanding physical function, health, well-being, physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology in a way that was not previously possible. Overall, I would argue that presenting a useful definition of fitness is one of the great contributions to the human health sciences in the current era—probably in history...."
Workouts of the Week
Monday - Triple Threat (whole-body conditioning)
Tuesday - Strength - Front Squat / Wall Walk+Thruster+BBJO
Wednesday - Strength - Upper Body Push + Rowing / Upper Body Accessory
Thursday - Strength - Deadlift / Deadlift + Bar Muscle Ups
Friday - Skill|Strength work with Overhead Squat / Functional Body Building AMRAP
Saturday - Team Day (Holds and more holds)
Upcoming Events/Calendar
- Gym Deep Clean day in August (dates TBD)
*We are inviting the gym members to come out and help us restore and re-shine our in-house equipment. The date will be a Saturday morning in August.
- In-house Competition in August. This will be multi-day and entail many different aspects of fitness. (Dates TBD)