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Dynamic effort box squats

12 X 2 reps at 50% to 60% of 1RM

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Regionals team 2010 
Team Verve placed 4th in the running event,(team members not pictured Joylyn and Mas).

Congratulations to all who competed this last weekend.  Your spirit and athleticism never cease to amaze us!

-Deep thoughts by James Whitmire

I referred to his work at the regionals as “awe-inspiring” and Matt Chan, in typically humble fashion replied, “Thanks James. They’re just workouts!”

Yes and no.  Yes, they’re workouts. But calling them “just workouts” denigrates them and the effort put into completing them.  Maybe to non-Crossfitters, they’re just workouts.  But to us, they’re much more than that. They’re challenges.

Look, there are a lot of people in life who avoid challenges like a plague. You know them, I know them. They’re either afraid of failure, afraid of success, or afraid of putting forth the effort to find out whether they’ll fail or succeed. 

But I don’t know any Crossfitters like that.  Crossfitters see that challenge thrown at them on the website or the whiteboard and they respond. They might be scared, they might question themselves, but they will take on that challenge.  They might fail, they might succeed, they might throw up, but they will take on that challenge.  That’s what makes us Crossfitters. We like that challenge because we like seeing what we’re made of. Because it’s only when we find out what we’re made of that we can figure out how to make ourselves more.

Matt, your challenge is to be the fittest man on the planet.  The reason you impressed us this weekend wasn’t because you smoked that horrific chipper in 6:35. It was because you looked deep into the heart of that challenge and trained and ate and foam rolled and planned and cooked and weighed and measured and slept and lifted and stretched and focused and learned and breathed and worked and did everything you could and kicked that challenge’s ass.  Well done.

Now do it again in California!

Matt regionals
Matt praying before his PR 325# Clean & Jerk. 
 

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