Call-To-Action II

Good luck to everyone doing the C2A today at Blue Marsh.
Gym closed today.

Tomorrow Sunday Special Workout: 9am

1 minute majors

J Ala-gheo hittin' the top of the OH Swing...nice!

1) JJ/Thrust, Handwalk; BC Drill
2)Toe Tap, WallBall; OH Swings
3) B&T Box Jump, Plank Knee; Pike/Lsit
4) Renegade Rows, DB V/Fly; Side BC

(Baseball warm-up)

Thursday Updates: Group Fitness

1) 2 days until "Call-to-Action II" Sat. Nov. 6, 8am, Blue Marsh. Bring your A-game!

2) Sat. Nov. 6 CF Classes Canceled, Gym Closed!

3) Sun. Nov. 7, 9AM: Sunday Special Workout (if you missed your CF fix on Sat. c'mon out for a workout).

4) NEW CF site launched. http://www.corpsfitness.net/





5) Reflections on Group Fitness: The banter (and frustration) in the comments to Monday's post had me thinking about group fitness. The best, most important, and often hardest part to get about CF is the power of the group, and the meaning of CK's "military-style group fitness."

I'm reading this fine book by Sebastian Junger, War, in which he chronicles time in Afghanistan. At one point, he marvels at the importance of attention to detail and policing of others in order, well, to stay alive. Not to condescend to suggest that CF parallels combat at all. Here are his observations:

"And because combat can hinge on the most absurd details, there was virtually nothing in a soldier's daily routine that fell outside the group's purview...There was no such thing as personal safety out there; what happened to you happened to everyone."

"The attention to detail at a base like Restrepo forced a kind of clarity on absolutely everything...I came to think of it as a kind of Zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up."

"In the civilian world almost nothing has lasting consequences, so you can blunder through life in a kind of daze...you lose a sense of importance of things."

"There are no hard feelings after everyone gets smoked...They're more pissed that they all let each other down. Once it's over it's over."

War, S. Junger
(another good read is Matterhorn, K. Marlantes)

New Corps Fitness Site Launches - UPDATE YOUR RSS FEED

The NEW Corps Fitness site has officially launched at http://www.corpsfitness.net/

Please take a moment to update your RSS feed. The new feed is http://www.corpsfitness.net/?feed=rss2

Wednesday Form: There's the right way and...

there's the right way.

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."
-Shunryu Suzuki

Please have at the applications and interpretations vis-a-vis CF classes...post to comments.

Early Update:
1) **CLASSES CANCELED** Saturday Nov. 6. due to Call-to-Action Challenge.

Tuesday Attitude: Is this an elective?

"The pain is inevitable, self-pity optional."

5 on a side (w/transitions)

DB Press, SlamBall, 21s, SDHP, Burpee

Locomotive, HangRun, Walkabout, BoxJumpTwist, 1armKBSitUp

(BC/StarJump transitions)