Strength:
Power Cleans 1 RM
Metcon:
3 Rounds
10 Powercleans (50% of 1RM) 10 Ring Pushups 200 feet Sprint
Fitness is earned. So is everything else in life. If you set a fitness goal...you must work hard to obtain it. That is the only way and we should never expect anything in the gym (or in life) to come easy, as it rarely does.
Through hard work, a solid plan, and the right support, our goals are reached.
No shortcuts permitted as the saying goes and when the going gets tough, its time to get going.
Cliches aside, I offered NyAngel and Pete an opportunity to earn a Steve's Club t-shirt if they attended club at least 3 days a week for a month straight. Keep in mind, this is no easy task as they both ride their bike about 6 miles both ways to get here.
A serious commitment would be required.
And as seen in the picture above NY and Pete both earned their t-shirt.
Perhaps we can argue that they had an ulterior motive to attend Steve's Club (to win a t-shirt), but the fact of the matter is they had a goal in front of them and they achieved it.
The earned their t-shirt and now walk around and sport it with pride.
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."
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