Holy Weekend

EA makes this pic awesome (she's the one standing away from us with a "yeah, these guys are fools" look on her face)

Had a bit of an extreme weekend from every single angle.  But, I'm pushing to be on a positive kick so I'll go ahead and stick with all the positive, because there's plenty of it.  A little last minute, but I learned late Thursday night that there was a training camp going down at Outlaw for a handful of the stud Games Qualifiers.  I just had to be in on that one so I shifted some of my plans and was ready to throw down with the crew!  The plan for this camp was to get the "real exercisers" of the group some solid work on potential weaknesses (read: muscle ups to ring handstand push ups, weighted jumping squats, bench press in a metcon, strongman work, overhead pistols and on and on).  Myself and a few other Outlaws were there for the ride and it was a pleasure as always to work alongside such an awesome group of fitness freaks.  

Let's just go ahead and say it like this, the workouts were hard, duh.  They were strange, which made me happy because I like non-conventional exercise.  And even though I decided to take the final day off (I brought them all Courage Bars, so that was a hit!) I had some good confidence boosting by being able to hang with Brandon Phillips and Jason Hoggan for the most part (um, Oly lifting was just an embarrassment).  So yeah, that was cool.

The rest of my weekend was spent trying to do things that make me happy.  I grabbed lunch with my boy Ori in Old Town, browsed through the Life Is Good store for a while before deciding on a frisbee and heading over to a little park and throwing that around for an hour in the 98 degree weather.  I then went and took a nap by the pool (see above picture) before grabbing dinner with my dad and catching up with him to talk about my future and the direction I want to move in.  The process of re-learning how to see the good in all things is a very gratifying one, and if you go ahead and try it, you will instantly see how much life can change for the better.  

Tomorrow I have a crap-ton of athletes coming in to train, I'll get a good workout in, and I have a world-record powerlifting friend of mine coming in to go over some technique drills to add some weight to my lifts!  AND, he'll do some Poloquin testing on me to see how to better use food to control all the inner workings of my body!  I cannot wait to do all that work. 

Here's to the pontential of a good week.

Never Stop, GET FIT.

Josh Courage