oorah....

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

amen...

 coach is telling us what is in store for the weekend.

when he asks a question the answer is,
yes coach!
when he says burpees we respond with,
yay burpees!

or we will be doing them 6 count style with an

oorah on the jump.

90% of lifts are missed because of stance.

we spent hours going over jumping and landing positions.

and jumping & shrugging

so much information.

besides the printed information we were given

i took tons of notes and video.

i stayed in for part of our lunch hour one of the days and

i was lucky enough to get a video of coach burgener coaching me through my cleans

priceless!

i have already watched it over and over.

me and coach burgener

we practiced snatches over and over and over....

correcting and perfecting.

right elbow is bent....need to lock it out.

my wrists also need to go back.

i learned a lot about flexibility

and lack of....

we were taught awesome drills to fix flexibility issues.

some of my clients were lucky and got to try them out today:)

we spent a lot of time with those pvc pipes:)

l to r

jp, casey burgener, cody burgener, me, coach b and beau burgener

could i have been any luckier to be at this cert where coach b and his sons from around the country got together to teach.

jp runs the usd crossfit box.

simply amazing to be taught by the best!

coach burgener has been doing this for 45 years!

cleaning it

down

to the bottom.

elbows need to go up!

once the bar has been cleaned arms need to be in the front squat position.

see mine are pointing down.

flexibility is the name of the game.....

lots of motivation in this box!

we always started with a motivational video.

on the second day during the video

coach b said, "i watch this almost every day, it just fires me up.

after i watch it i go eat nails."

i kind of believe him:)

learning how to chalk client's foot positions to help with their landing on clean and jerks.

once again

over and over and over.

no one minded.....

i was loving every minute of it!

yep...coach b is a marine.

and we are going to train hard-dream big.

summary of what we'd learned.
our brains were fried!

now the fun part

putting it all in to practice

and going over my papers, notes & video. 

all my new friends.

everyone was so encouraging to each other

coaching and helping each other all along the way.

we talked a lot about community

after all...

we are all chasing similar dreams.

what an amazing journey

a journey that will not end here.

i learned so much about myself and what i am capable of 

i left san diego a different person.

and tomorrow i will post some pics of those mad biking skills i talked about a couple days ago.

i would do it tonight but my post is already long enough and the pictures are on a different computer:)

oorah...