2.1

Recruit Your Confidence

     I have an obsession with composition notebooks.

          Especially ones with graph paper

     This is a photo I took and sent to GK in April of this year. This was a few weeks after the initial idea for a CFOKC Competitor Team was born. She and I had been tossing ideas around since October/November but we hadn't really decided on how we could make the Competitor Team work... and its still in progress.

     Sometimes I have what I call "The need to create". Its like this virus. I catch it and I have this feeling in my chest, like some feeling that I have to make some demonstrative expression of myself somehow. When this happens I grab a pen and paper (preferably the paper inside a composition notebook of the graph persuasion)., then I just "happen" on the page. I doodle or write ideas, some become something, most become trash or frustrated doodle pages... I dunno, I'm strange...I digress.  My Point: This picture was a small result of one those aforementioned times.

     This particular time, I initially started writing mantras. Statements that I felt were pertinent to most, if not all, of the athletes that GK and I had worked with. RECRUIT YOUR CONFIDENCE. It was literally the first thing I wrote. I wrote it for you. I probably wrote it for myself also. I did. I need to see, say, and hear this myself.

     I need to say this to myself.

               I need to do this... for myself.

     When you recruit something, you seek it.

               Once it is sought and found, you then persuade it to join your cause.

     From the Latin meaning "again grow"

                When you recruit, you build allies.

      Recruit Your Confidence

                 Grow an ally of confidence within you

     This is done through success, but it is also realized through failure. 

     You can do this everyday at the gym as you challenge yourself  with the new programming. Like knowing that HAP means "Heavy As Possible". I listened to Adrian Bozman talk about CF Mainsite programming in a video...and I was struck by something he said. He was defending Mainsite programming and the concept of the "single modality day". Like when "Back Squat 5-5-5-5-5" is the only thing posted. He said something that really stuck with me. It stuck with me because of how he said it, nonchalantly and as if it was a commonplace and logical mindset to have about lifts... it was old hat to him, but it was a concept that was new idea to me. If between his sets of 5 back squats and while defending the programming he said "The best set of 5 is a set of four"...My mind was blown. So much sub context in such a simple statement. The best set of 5 you will ever do is that set where you are challenging yourself to be better... so much so that you leave the opportunity to fail out in the open. You take a risk to be better. You Recruit your Confidence in a way that says "I have a goal, but I am not afraid to fail". Quality of training over Quantity of training.

     So two quick challenges. 

          1. In the gym, push yourself while seeking quality in 

              everything that you do and while listening to you body. 

          2. Challenge yourself by finding a competition to compete in this Summer/Fall

     What I call "Off Season Competitions" will begin soon. I am referring more to "local" competitions, but also to our "in house competitions" that will be part of the competitor team. You have made a commitment to yourself and your team to that you will BE better. These competitions are a great test to 1. see where you are compared to other CFers that are competing and 2. Realize weaknesses.

     Recruit your confidence everyday. 

WEEK 2
2.1

CFOKC Competitor Class

OLY STRENGTH

     1. 3-Position Snatch (floor, below knee, above knee)
               60%, 65%, 70%, 75% x 3 sets

     2. Snatch Pull
               95% (of sn) x 3 x 2, 100% x 3 x 2

     3. 5 minute EMOM of following complex:
               3 SN Grip Push Press
               1 OHS
                    Heavier each set, HAP

COMP WOD

     4 Rounds
5 1-arm KB Clean/arm
5 KB Push Press/arm
3 KB Back Lunge Pistol/leg
45 second Rest
  KB weight HAP to finish in under 15 mins, 
may use different/no KB weights for each movement if needed