Why you should lift weights, and lift them HEAVY!
When it comes to lifting weights, there’s a time and a place to go light. And a time and place to go HEAVY! What I have found over my years of coaching is most people don’t really know how to lift weights heavy. There are really two perceptions of “heavy” that I have identified being expressed by humans. The first being “yeahhh that’s fairly heavy. I’m just going to stick with that.” This is probably the most common sentence used when strength days come around. But just remember what i said at the start… There is a
How strength training can benefit your psychology!
This probably has to be my favourite blog to date! Often we align exercise, training, or lifting heavy objects with all the disadvantages that come with it. Such as; It’s really hard.It takes time.My body is sore during and after it.I’m in pain mentally and physically, etc. However, it’s not often we align training and lifting weights with all the benefits that come with. Without talking about all the physical benefits that you are probably already aware of that come with lifting weight and exercising. I want to dive in the deep end, and show you
Where our heart is and where we stand
Firstly. We acknowledge and extend our appreciation for the Dja Dja Wurrung People, the Traditional Owners of the land on which we and the CFBD box stand upon. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging, for they hold the hopes of all Dja Dja Wurrung Peoples. We are visitors on this country. Right now we are facing some very serious issues and within the last few hours they have hit the CrossFit community in a real bad way. Given my lack of knowledge and experience in most matters of race,
Should women be lifting weights?
In short, yes! In long, here we go :) It’s become a bit of common thought and expression whereby most women don’t think they should be lifting weights. For these following reasons; “I don’t want to get bulky!”“I don’t want to look like a guy!”“I have just had children, it’s probably not good for me!”“I’m currently pregnant!” So let’s break these down a little bit. Firstly, I personally only know one girl who has pretty substantially sized muscles in comparison to most women. No she doesn’t look like a guy, and no she doesn’t turn into a
Using Action to Overcome Distraction
The human mind is so easily distracted. What is interesting though is we choose our distractions most of the time. Most of my distractions come through some kind of electronic device, and all of those devices require us to take a step or two to turn them on and veg out with them. They do not turn on by themselves. So these self-induced distractions are really under my control. It is 100% on me to be scrolling through Instagram for an hour. I have found a LOT of success personally to help myself through