12/7 Whole Life Wednesday - #podiumweek Day 3

Daily gratitude was an WLC Off-Season practice ealier this month. Do you continue this lifestyle pratice? How has it changed your life? Tell us in the comments. 
This Week's Off-Season Whole Life Challenge Weekly Lifestyle Practice is to go booze-free. Yep! We are challenging ourselves to not drink for 7 whole days! This is a real challenge for some of us, and it's an incredibly important practice. 
Here's how the WLC folks suggest going Booze Free until next Wednesday: 

• "Each day this week, abstain from drinking alcohol.
• Leave the beer in the fridge, the wine unopened, and the liquor cabinet closed. Unlike the Kickstart and Lifestyle levels of the Challenge (both of which allow a relatively small amount of weekly drinking), this Skill Practice foregoes all forms of alcohol at all times.
• The intention of this practice is not to keep you from enjoying life — you’ll still attend parties, go to restaurants, and spend time with your friends.  You’ll just do it knowing that you’ve made a conscious choice to keep the booze out of your system for seven days.

Why Is This Skill Important?
It seems like alcohol is everywhere we go — an accepted part of our social lives, an easy way to relax, an expected part of after-hours conduct. As a culture, we drink (and we enjoy it).
At the same time, alcohol consumption has far-reaching consequences for those pursuing calm, balance, and a wellness-oriented lifestyle. Here are some of the potential effects:

• Fat Loss: Ethanol (the primary chemical that gives alcohol its effects) has metabolic priority in the body, ensuring that it is metabolized before fat, carbohydrates, or protein — this effectively stops any ongoing fat loss in its tracks.
• Mood: Alcohol can have an impact on mood, with high alcohol consumption rates linked to depression.
• Sleep: Alcohol consumption is correlated with a reduction in sleep quality and duration, as well as an increase in sleep disturbances.
• Athletic Performance: Alcohol consumption can impair recovery from athletic activities, inhibit motor coordination, reduce muscular work capacity, and increase the potential for injury.

Going booze free for a week may seem like cakewalk (or it may be a great personal challenge). Regardless, you’ll get the chance to see the effects that abstaining has on your emotions, your physical performance, your body composition, and your sleep quality — perhaps giving you some insight into how you’ll approach drinking in the future.
Good luck — and be sure to let us know how it’s going in the private Official Whole Life Challenge Facebook Group. (If you’re not yet a member, just ask to join, and we’ll approve you right away). We’re excited to hear about your experiences with this week’s Skill Practice!
The Whole Life Challenge asks you to examine your life through a different lens – your physical health, your emotional health, and your overall lifestyle. This eight-week challenge will improve your daily habits, leaving you happier, healthier, and more in control of your outcomes. If you’re ready for a change, this is your opportunity. Click below to learn more."

Today's workout is a test of your endurance, stamina, speed, agility, coordination, power..shoot - it tests all 10 general phsyical skills. It's also a great test of mental toughness.

Dirty Thirty, like is its evil cousin, Filthy Fifity, is a classic CrossFit chipper. The reps are realtively low, the weights light, and the pace is high. Chippers provide us with great opportunities to move quickly and keep the intesnity high. Think about how you would approach 30 box jumps versus 130. Yep - you go faster.

The last time we did Dirty Thirty was last year on Dec 3. How much faster are you today? Can you do it with scaling fewer movements? That's a #podiumweek opportunity! Perhaps today you can even do it Rx'd! Good luck!

Today's Workout
Dirty Thirty
30 reps of the following mvoements as fast as possible:
Box jumps 24/20"
Jumping Pull-ups
Kettlebell swings 1/0.75pood
Lunges
Knees to Elbows
Push Press 45/35#
Good Mornings 45/35#
Wallballs 20/14#
Burpees
Double Unders