Be strong.

You may have noticed a "change of course" back towards strength training in the programing starting this week, as Andrew is fresh out of his Rippetoe Barbell Seminar/Certification. We are VERY excited about this.

When some of us think about fitness and working towards improving it, often times we are disillusioned by the misinformation that's been circulating around for so long. We automatically wonder, "What about the met-con?" or "Don't I need to finish my workout with cardio?"

It should be understood that lighter-weight, longer-duration efforts simply use a smaller percentage of your absolute strength repeated over and over. If you have a strong back squat, then performing a bodyweight air squat multiple times will be easy! This is true for all of our movements, whether pushing, pulling, squatting, opening the body, or closing it -- our ability to perform a huge volume of movements at lighter weight is dependent on our total (or absolute) strength.

With strength, one can more easily attain metabolic conditioning. This does NOT work reverse. Wanna perform better? Get stronger! Wanna smash your WOD times and PR? Get stronger! So.....

Let's all get stronger! We all have a lot of potential that we have not unlocked yet. That's why we are adding this to our training focus. And if you're doing these strength days with the correctly scaled weight and with all your effort, trust me you won't be asking for any additional "cardio" afterwards!

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WOD

find your 5RM deadlift

then

"CINDY"
as many rds as possible in 20 min:
5 pullups
10 pushups
15 squats

compare to 08JAN2010.