Strength: 15 Minutes To Establish a 3 Rep Max Power Clean (All reps to be completed in under 30 seconds)
Metcon – “My 3 Tabata’s”
8 Rounds For Total Reps:
V-Ups
Push-ups
Double Unders
Rotate from movement to movement with 20 seconds work, 10 seconds rest until 8 rounds of each are completed…
Everyday a new teen walks in to try CrossFit and for the many who discover it, a good portion quickly falls in love and tells all their family and friends about it.
Each youngster who comes in to train with us, also brings with them their own life story made up of their past experiences. While some have it better than others, the vast majority of the kids at SC come from very tough neighorboods and have been raised in very economically depressed, single parent families. This is just how it is.
Despite the hardships and challenges most of them face on a daily basis, rarely does someone walk in with an attitude problem or a chip on their shoulder as if they are owed something in life.
These kids know it is up to themselves to create write their own story book and the choices they make today will determine who they become tomorrow.
I remind them from the start and try to make it abundantly clear: No one is going to just give you something for nothing. Everything is earned. If you want to train here, you better be willing to put in the work and pay for it through your committment, dedication and the amount of effort you put into it.
While the past is already written and etched in stone, it is each and everyone of yours responsibility to create the future you want.
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."
Positive attitude plays an important role in life. Practice makes people perfect, which makes them to lead a happy life.
Posted by: Hardship Letters | October 16, 2012 at 12:44 AM