Coach Jenny Says.....
 As I was walking out of the 4:30 PM workout tonight Coach Marc asked me if I wanted to go for a run. I absolutely did not. I was going home after a long day of work and a hard workout. Encouraged by the unsolicited and wholly unwelcome offer, but inspired by his additional effort I agreed. We ran…jogged, we talked, and we went about ¾ of a mile. Got back to CFL and I said I loved the Atlas stones… let’s do some. OK. I did 5, Marc did 5. Done! I said I am going to do 5 more… Marc said “Cool… I’m good.” I did my 5 and Marc said “OK, now I have to do 5 more.” And he did. Marc pushed me and I pushed him. I have challenged Jen D in muscle ups, Marky Mark in running, Marc in Atlas Stones, Max in double unders (we all know how that worked out) and all of my 50+ guys (Jim T et. al.) to go after the utes (youths) during workouts We were running the Legitimus loop on Tuesday and a 20-something kid went way out ahead. I said to Marky Mark “Go reel him in.” He looked at me stone faced, didn’t blink, and said “I got it.” He took off and ran that young man down. I had no doubts! Are you old? Young? Male? Female? It doesn't matter. My challenge to you is Buddy Up! Identify a person who you enjoy working with, who will push you, inspire you, and make you better. Put a formal challenge in place with another CFL member (not public but only between you and them) whether it is achieving a movement, getting a muscle up, a hand stand push up, a pull up, completing a workout in a given amount of time, running the Hill in X minutes, whatever... Decide whether you want to compete, or work together to achieve the goal (both are great and one is not better than the other). We all have challenges motivating ourselves and getting to our goals. But when we can find motivation, inspiration, partnership, camaraderie, support, and challenges in each other it helps to push us and elevate us to completely new levels. As we know at CFL we can all achieve amazing things by ourselves, but what we are able to achieve together is so much more. That's why we do what we do! ~Drew Out!
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 Enjoy your achievement!
Your achievement might be that you got to Legitimus and worked out. It could also be that you got a double under or a pull up or you learned how to squat or do a push up. Or that you just had a good time at the gym. It could be a number of things that you achieved. Be victorious! Own it! Hold it near and dear, protect it! There's a nasty virus in the air that sucks all of the life outta your achievement out of your victory! It's called being busy, negative self talk, or lusting for the next thing or just looking a gift horse in the mouth and not seeing the achievement at its full value. This virus has many names but it always does the same thing... kills your victories! Own your victory, make it last! Don't judge it or lose sight of it, hold it up in front of your eyes and let it lead you to more victories!  Rainbows and unicorns........screw them!! Look life is crazy, humans are emotional and complicated. I'm not trying to push rainbows and unicorns up your ass. I like keeping it real and venting or being pissy, it's ok, and justified. I have a passion to continue to build the Legitimus community. A community that promotes health and fitness. I've been reading a lot about "Complaint Free Zone" I really want to do it at our gym, but I think the bracelets are not for us. Because along with creating a positive environment I want to help people become mentally stronger. So let's not use the bracelets. Our world is full of things that make it easier like phones, road signs, voice activated this and that. Meals that you drink, watches that tell us when to walk, talk and pee. Let's try to not bitch and complain by focusing on good, better and positive things from our own volition. Remember it's all in your wording, it's how you say it. Re-word things for your fitness friends. Kindly offer a different way to say or look at the fact that the WOD has 10 million Push ups in it. Don't be an ass about it but when it's appropriate help someone spin some positive. What we focus on be it negative or positive feeds us, what are you eating? Don't take what I'm saying to extremes, some days really suck, and are sad or frustrating. I get it. We have moods and we experience life, love, heart break, anger and all the rest. But, you did that Squat really well! Let's build each other and ourselves up. Let's be bold and try it. Be kind to yourself and others.  I've never been a big fan of self help stuff. Reading or listening, because it seemed to only go that far. Great ideas and thoughts but unless you actually apply the ideas it's just a waste of time. Like buying healthy food but not eating it.
Ben Bergeron really got to me. Here's a dude that is coaching some very goal oriented athletes, who's job it is to do well or win competitions. Like the bad ass CFers we see at the games. And he's posting things like "Replace I have to with I get to." And he speaks very passionately about community and relationships. Which got me reading and listening to him more. Let me get after my point here. I'm not perfect, my fitness is not perfect nor are my relationships. I'm talking not only to you the reader but to myself too. Elevating yourself is the best thing you can do for others. If your more often negative or focused on the shitty stuff in a crappy way you breed it. You can't be on top of the world all the time for sure. But I think you catch my drift. I Get To.....Have real relationships that are not always easy. I Get To.... not be perfect (which everyone sees) I Get To.. love to run I Get to instead of I have to. Try it. Not just on easy fun, funny stuff but the big stuff too. You get to try this! If your speaking about all your inadequacies, all your faults about your life your body, your workout, your job, your eating so on how can it be or get better? It's as though your focus is on keeping them the same and not seeing that they are there to press you forward. "I Get to eat healthy so my body will feel better" instead of " I have to loss weight." The happiest people are the ones with the best relationships, not the best body or best Clean and Jerk. Love will save your soul. Be the person that gets to!!!!!!  I wonder if people know how lucky I am?!
I go to work before dawn, and sometimes don't get home until 8pm. Only to post away on Facebook and Instagram random pictures of the people who did seemingly above average human movements. Then I get up again at 4am to repeat the process. Yet everyday is different; it's adventurous and can be filled with emotional outbursts both positive and negative. It's most definitely filled with human strength, determination and energy. Yet that's not even it, the reason why I'm lucky is totally something else. Imagine that you could have a party or a dance party with your friends and acquaintances. A party where new people show up to join in. At this party you play games and the go on some physical adventure that's grueling but somehow it bonds you together. At the end of this gathering people are like "Hell yeah that sucked!" I get to cater this gathering, over several different hours of the day with several different "Cells" of people. It's a pretty unique experience, knowing and talking to all of these different people, all living their life day in and day out. I know their kids, pets, where they grew up; I hear about their jobs, spouses and a host of other details about their lives. I hear about life being lived! Then I participate in an hour of life with them... almost everyday!! They are my community, my friends and acquaintances. They are people that fill my life with all the stuff life is filled with. Today I got a root canal and had to run back into the gym to grab my bag. I got a group hug and some "how the hell are ya's"... it was nice to see the Fam before I headed home to take a recovery nap! It's why I come in every day. See you guys in the morning! Be on time and make sure to ask each other how it's going! Lucky me/Lucky you! Jenny
 I'm searching for two individuals who want one on one coaching to help them reach a specific goal! Here are the details:
1. You need to have a goal. It can be an event such as running a race, a Crossfit competition, weight loss or even weightlifting. I am open to other goals these are only some examples. 2. Once you have presented your goal or goals to me I will have a joint interview with you, where we can both decide whether or not I am the right coach for you. 3. I am looking for specific characteristics in the person that I will train. Are you coachable? I will not be making suggestions during your time training with me, if I ask you to change how you put your socks on even though your way works well I expect that you'll learn how to do it my way inside and out. You will bust your butt trying to learn it. No questions asked. CONFIDENT- this is not cocky or expecting to win. Confident that if you do what your coach says you'll be ok. PASSION- My job is not to motivate you, you need to push yourself. You hate rest days! POSITIVE- no complaining, no excuses, no crying....just do, repeat, succeed! 4. There is a financial commitment and a time commitment. I will train you for two months. Weekly times will be personalized. 5. I will only be doing this with two people per month, this way you get as much quality training as possible from me. If you're interested please call me at (860)801-0328 or email me at jen@crossfitlegitimus.com ~ Coach Jenny Conlin This is not a compete list of the reasons ppl give me for "Cheat Days" or reasons they give me for days they eat crap but it's a start!
It was.... Christmas Holiday parties X 3 or so Kids Birthdays Wife Birthday Husbands B-day Grams B-day Gramps B-day Best friends B-day New Years Wedding Day off from school Party at School First Day of School Office party Retirement Party Martin Luther King Day All Saints Day Mick Jaggers Birthday Last day of school Soccer party Hockey party Welcome home party First day of spring Last day of spring Day off from work World Series of poker World Series baseball Super bowl Stanley Cup Flag day World Dog Day Friday Monday Saturday Sunday Thanksgiving Halloween Fourth of July Memorial Day Friends Day Fathers Day Mothers Day Cup cake day Music day Vacation Winter vacation Summer Vacation Spring Vacation Ski trip Sunday football Monday Football Every night of the week baseball Health and fitness day Tour De France day Lances Birthday Freddy Mercury day Just to name a few. It does not leave you many days to eat real food that will make you more healthy and that will help you feel better. This is not a compete list of the reasons ppl give me for "Cheat Days" or reasons they give me for days they eat crap but it's a start!
It was.... Christmas Holiday parties X 3 or so Kids Birthdays Wife Birthday Husbands B-day Grams B-day Gramps B-day Best friends B-day New Years Wedding Day off from school Party at School First Day of School Office party Retirement Party Martin Luther King Day All Saints Day Mick Jaggers Birthday Last day of school Soccer party Hockey party Welcome home party First day of spring Last day of spring Day off from work World Series of poker World Series baseball Super bowl Stanley Cup Flag day World Dog Day Friday Monday Saturday Sunday Thanksgiving Halloween Fourth of July Memorial Day Friends Day Fathers Day Mothers Day Cup cake day Music day Vacation Winter vacation Summer Vacation Spring Vacation Ski trip Sunday football Monday Football Every night of the week baseball Health and fitness day Tour De France day Lances Birthday Freddy Mercury day Just to name a few. It does not leave you many days to eat real food that will make you more healthy and that will help you feel better. Everybody knows that sugar is bad for you, that's been well established. We know that it's in pretty much everything that is fun to eat! We also know that it has about seventeen thousand names. It's all well documented and communicated. We tend to have a shitload of excuses that we use to keep the crack in our life. That's not what I'm here to talk about today.
Our war in my opinion is how much we eat. How much we think we should eat, how much we think we need. Seems like we eat often and to much like champs. People seem to do this under the guise of needing to "Refuel" or "Maintain blood sugar". It a load of shit, sorry to break it to you. Feeling hungry is not a reliable indicator of our need. When we overfeed ourselves our body craves food when we don't "NEED" food. Our systems are so used to being consistently fed that when deprived even a little our body says we are hungry. Unless your at a high caloric output constantly throughout your day the chances are you're eating far too often and to much. Even beautiful meals of home cooked food with meat vegetables and good fat can be to much. If because your fitness watch says you have 6 million steps around the office I'm sorry but I don't think you need a huge plate of beautiful food nor do you need a recovery drink. If however you've been hauling wood, running after deer will hiking up a mountain throughout your day, well maybe then you should have three meals that could feed a lumberjack. Or if you are the person who's job it is to cut large blocks of ice to take back to the market to sell to people in order to keep there food fresh that the recently shot with a bow and arrow.... well yes maybe then too I'm being silly I know. My point is this. Our life styles are not indicative of the amounts of food we consume. Most people are not burning millions of calories in a day and some of us who are burning significant amounts still have enough resources on our bodies to maintain our energy levels. Why I'm I thinking and writing about this? Because I'm in the fitness and health business. I watch people workout like bad asses and are not able to shed pounds or keep them off. One hour of being a fitness champ per day does not make us in need of large amounts of calories. Since most of us before or after our hour of fitness are not taxing our bodies enough to continue to fuel! Slow your food roll peeps. Ask yourself why am I eating this much and or this often? |
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