Steve's Clubbers carrying heavy loads for time! from Steve's Club on Vimeo.
Fitness shouldn't be a chore or something you dread doing. Fitness should be fun. Fitness should be play. Running around an open field playing sticks and jumping on stones with no care in the world besides enjoying and living in the moment, forgetting about what you did an hour ago or what you're going to do tomorrow...is perfectly acceptable and one example of what fitness can be.
Despite the freezing cold weather today restricting us from going outside today to play and lift stuff and run around...we made today's activity at Steve's Club all about play.
Of course our definition is slightly different then what most think of play. After all, we are Crossfitters and our goal is to get our athletes fitter, faster, stronger, and more powerful. Not to mention better people in the gym and outside the gym encompassing a total package of strong mind, body and spirit.
Our play is not school recess, nor am I a gym teacher putting kids through a game of kick the ball!
Today, I had the kids pick up a huge mountain of weights and other odd objects including a #100 sandbag, 70 pood kettlebells, #20 medicine balls, and #45 bumper plates. The goal was to move the whole mountain of weights from one side of the gym to the other (in teams of 3) AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. Then we would record each team's time. We did this several times as a super fun and demanding workout or shall I say form of play!
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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