REMINDER FOR THIS FRIDAY and SATURDAY- Come out to support our greater Balance Gym community as we grow and are celebrating the grand opening of CrossFit Foggy Bottom (2401 M Street). Check out for the weekend schedule here! Friday evening Happy Hour from 5:30-9pm (Tequila and Paleo tasting). Gymnastic Tutorial this Saturday (12:30-1:15pm) followed by Brunch and pool party! Now all crossfitters will have an excuse to rip your shirts off! Show off those pre-summer muscles!
WHAT COMMUNITY IS ABOUT- Two characteristics that stick out about CrossFit are the coaching aspect and community. Having a coach to provide feedback both on seeing/correcting movement and also on general progress, your experiences, and helping you with goals/perspective is imperative and unique with the CrossFit training methodology and program. However, it goes beyond this. Both members and coaches share this responsibility.
Ramzi (member, fellow crossfitter, and friend) reminded me about this and I wanted to share this with you. We all are working towards one main overarching goal- bettering our lifestyle through improving our fitness. We all impact each other whether its through a brief conversation, sharing perspective on the workouts, motivating each other by cheering on one another in class, holding each other accountable for standards and quality movements when we are partnered up, etc.
For those of you who haven't met Ramzi, you can meet him in the evening classes. He has been part of our community for about 6 months and is a pleasure to coach! He is always enthusiastic and his positive attitude is infectious! I was coming out of coaching last evening feeling unmotivated and we had a brief exchange and this was a follow-up from the conversation that I would like to share with all of you. Ramzi emailed me and it made my day:
"We have sometimes to acknowledge that some days are not good days energetically and we have to roll with it.. When you feel you can't do anything just go with it and don't try to force anything on your body.. I know how hard Regionals are and how intense and competitive you can be while preparing for it.
I just want to tell you something: " DON'T LET YOUR WEAKNESS CONVINCE YOU THAT YOU LACK STRENGTH"
Ramzi's email had a profound impact on my attitude, which helped me with my subsequent workout. My point is that we can all have this affect on one another!
I think we can all relate to the feeling of having a long day (perhaps long weekend) and being motivated to get to the gym or get through a workout. For some of us, getting our workout in is a no brainer however, we may take it a step further and get frustrated with our progress or caught up in being super critical with our shortcomings (if a weakness comes up in workout and we are either cherry picking and skipping out on that day or miserable coming in for the workout aka...poor attitude).
Embrace your strengths, train your weaknesses, and have fun in the process. My take away from Ramzi's advice was to appreciate those around you and embrace feedback, maintain a positive attitude, and enjoy training!
A conversation or encourgement will go a long way with one another. Inspire one another with your efforts and be supportive!
Thanks Ramzi!
-Danielle
WOD for Wednesday:
1.) 6X 3 Position Clean + 1 Jerk
Rest 2:00 minutes in between sets.
2.) 2X 600m Run
Rest 3 minutes between sets.
Post weight and splits to comments.
Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 07:24PM 
