3/9 Mental Toughness Thursday & Happy Birthday Nicole!

A full 5:30pm class does burpees! 
Today's mental toughness Thursday blog is courtesy of the folks at the Whole Life Challenge. This theme, taking care of yourself first, is something we coaches talk about quite a bit. How can we best serve you when we only see you for 2-5 hours a week? Outside of your gym time you have about 160 hours in the rest of the week to eat, sleep, work, play, recover, and get outside and play.

How do you put yourself first? Share your ways in the comments. 

"To truly be healthy, you have to put your health first.  And to do that, you have to put yourself  first.

And we know that idea is hard for our players.

Because we know you’ve got jobs and families and responsibilities.
And with those things comes the almighty temptation to worry about yourself only after everything else is squared away.

Because you can’t be selfish, right?

And so a pattern develops — you spend your waking hours in service of your career and familial obligations, and you don’t make time for your well-being. Then you get stressed out, and you engage in a litany of things that are 100% contradictory to being healthy (see: chocolate, Netflix, booze, not sleeping, forgetting to see your friends, and abandoning exercise).

And the pattern rolls on, everything and everyone else first until you’ve got actual health problems that you have to make time for (because the Doctor said so).

So let’s nip this in the bud.

For at least three hours a week, the world works for you.

That’s three hours a week where you cannot be bothered. Contacted. Where the phone is off, meetings cannot be scheduled, and someone else is the point person for emergencies.

You’ll take these hours, and you’ll put them on the same calendar you use to schedule your other obligations. And then you’ll defend them as you would the most important engagement in the world (because they are 100% inviolable).

And you’ll use that time to build the health habits that are most important to you.

Exercise. Meditation. Mobility. Food prep. The things that will keep you healthy and well-adjusted long into old age.

And if you think you don’t have time for the sacrosanct hours, consider this -- if you’re awake 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, you’re rocking around with 112 hours per week at your disposal. If you make 3 of those hours yours each week, you’re focusing on you (and only you) 2.67% of the time.
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Doesn’t seem selfish to us."

Today's Workout 
​Buy-in: For time:
100 AbMat Sit-ups
Compare to Aug 18, 2016
Rest 2 mins,
then,
Death by Burpee
Both are BTWB Bodyweight Fitness Level workouts. Today's workout tests your endurance, speed, agility and coordination. Burpees are potent in their capacity to make you strong, agile, and fast. 

Happy Birthday Nicole! 

We hope your special day is filled with love, laughter and a few burpees!