Here we go guys! New Year, new you, same Jesse 🙂 I know it’s snowy, the workout will be modified slightly, with rowing and biking and such to be a) safer, b) more enjoyable and c) just as hard!
I spent some serious time this weekend, while you were all enjoying yourselves; ever seen “Hunt for Red October?” If you haven’t watch it. If you have, remember the part where Capt. Ramius reads the fake orders to the crew? “We will lay off their largest city and listen to their rock and roll, while we conduct missile drills…” That’s kind of like what I do, I listen to the fireworks and the revelment, while I conduct missile drills 🙂 Planning always motivates me, so I do some of that. We’re gonna revisit the “Dirty Dozen” but instead we’ll do the Magnificent 7 (to be revealed later, I want this post to end sometime) but it’s all the favorites, Gilligan, Karen etc. A snowshoeing trip should totally happen (tentative date: Sunday, January 30, thoughts?), and I went through and calculated a very key number: the number of days the gym will be open this year to give you “opportunities for fitness,” this number is 292. Two hundred and Ninety-Two Days that your coaches and I are here to help you stave off decrepitude and the diseases of western civilization all the while looking better naked. 292 Days of thoughtfully programmed workouts, executed by the best trained coaches around in a world class fitness facility. If you can’t be excited and humbled by that I’m not sure you’re thinking about this whole thing right. Just to help you remember: if you train 3 days a week the most you can get (3 x 52) is 156 sessions, you’re dreadfully close to having 200 rest days a year. I don’t think that’s the best way to get healthy and fit. What that also means is that probably for the first time I’m super unconcerned with closing the gym on days where actual businesses are closed, as if there was a shortage of days we all could attend and workout. What’s your goal? Mine is to get 292 sessions in 2022. Some of you might snicker and think that “he works at the gym, how hard can it be to workout?!” Remember how hard it was to train at home? Like there was always something else that seemed more important to do, chores, bills, kids, house stuff, etc. etc. Now magnify that to our community and the gym itself, certainly there’s literally always work to be done, building upkeep, cleaning, website, coach development, billing, new clients, emails, programming, the list goes, and the gym since I’m there more than I’m at my actual home, quite literally is. All I’m saying: “I’ll tell you folks, it’s harder than it looks. It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll.” ~AC/DC. What’s your goal? Mine is 292. See you soon!
The Workout:
Dedicated to Danish Army Sgt. René Brink Jakobsen of Vang, Denmark, 39, who died Jan. 3, 2013, after being hit by an improvised explosive device while on foot patrol with his unit in Afghanistan. Jakobsen is survived by his wife, Camilla; three children, Mie, Sara and Thor.
“Rene”
7 Rounds for Time
400 meter Run
21 Walking Lunges
15 Pull-Ups
9 Burpees
Wear a Weight Vest (20/14 lb)
Nothing wrong with 5 rounds, or cutting back the pull-ups etc. Rowing and biking are certainly things today! Some of us are wearing a weight vest (guilty!) then rock that mofo! If you want the extra challenge, it’s there 🙂
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