Joe Petrusky from CrossFit Love (great website by the way....check it out!) reached out to me several weeks back to meet up and talk about getting involved and offering to volunteer his time and coaching skills at our club. Of course, knowing the great trainer and guy Joe was, I took him up on his offer and invited him to pick a day out of his busy schedule to come over and run a class.
The kids immediately took liking to him. That was until he wrote the workout of the day on the board! 13-12-11-10-9....2-1 of Burpees and KB Swings! 13 reps of each exercise followed by 12 reps of each exercise all the way down to 1 rep of each exercise.
A tough workout for sure, but certainly not the first time they had to conquer a fear (burpeephobia!) or overcome a challenge. Besides, that is what we do here on a regular basis at Steve's Club, using CrossFit, not only as a mental outlet and a place to shine for athletes and non-athletes alike but as a tool to build confidence and create healthy and productive young people.
So from the bottom of our hearts (in "CrossFit Love" style!), we want to thank Joe for spending his afternoon here at Steve's Club motivating our members to be better athletes, offering coaching tips and pushing everyone past their own physical and mental limitations.
The greatest discovery any outsider could make about Camden is it's overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE).
Every year they pass more laws, hire more police, build more prisons, and sentence more offenders for longer periods-all without moving one inch closer to “ending” crime. If it didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they spend more money on schools, hoping to “fix” whatever’s wrong with them, and every year the schools remain stubbornly unfixed. Spending money didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they try to make the criminals go away, and every year they remain with us. We couldn’t shoehorn these criminals back into the “the mainstream” last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Maybe its time to TRY something DIFFERENT.
Afterall, IF Camden is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
Much of my inspiration comes from Daniel Quinn in "Ishmael."
joe rocks!! he is one of the best trainers i know. keep up the great work.
Posted by: lisa | February 09, 2010 at 07:18 PM