3 Rounds NOT For Time of:
10 Pushups
15 Power Cleans (#95-115)
25 Air Squats
Let me preface this post by saying that I love timed (ex. AMRAP's - as many rounds as possible) and tasked (ex. 3 rounds for time) oriented workouts. I love training on the clock when doing conditioning based workouts as a tool to remind myself to get as much work done in as little time as possible. After all, a stop watch and CrossFit go together like jerky, nuts and berries:>) Time it, record it and measure it. Come back and beat your old time. Chase performance is the name of the game, so they say.
However, at least once a week I will do a not for timed CrossFit workout and advise Steve's Club athletes to do the same.
What I discovered is...No clock = Less pressure. Rather than complete the task as fast as possible, the goal is to focus on the quality and efficiency of the movements.
Forget about the results and the outcome.
Instead, the point is to make the workout as enjoyable as possible.
Sometimes, happiness comes when you're free from the pressure to see the desired outcome.
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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