CrossFit and Common Sense?

Posted by on Jul 26, 2011 | 19 comments Words in RED are links.  Click and read. First things first, I’m not Old School CrossFit.  I’m talking the real old school CrossFitters like Brian MacKenzie, Josh Evertt, Chris Spealler, Freddy Camacho, Mike Minium, Skip Chase, Lisbeth Darsh, etc…  Yeah I left off a bunch of cool people, these guys just jumped off the top of my mind.  I consider myself a second year kinda guy.  I...
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So Choose and Live

Posted by on May 18, 2011 | 1 comment It’s time for a little “Intense Alec”. Some of you out there may think that’s standard, but well, this may be a little more than usual. I love you though. So… Shut up and move. Stop thinking. Stop making excuses. Stop getting distracted. Stop being stagnant in your life. Just move. Take the steps in your life you have been meaning to and stop holding back from being who you...
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Bending the Universe

Posted by on Feb 21, 2011 | 6 comments A mentor of mine told me in plain language, he had the ability to bend the universe to his will.  He had been prone to exaggerations at times, so I let him roll with it. Little did I know, he wasn’t lying. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in...
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Why you matter enough to face the pain

Posted by on Dec 27, 2010 | 6 comments You matter.  Period.  Somewhere along the lines of our lives we believe we don’t, at least not “that” much anyway. Some of us have parents who tell us we matter, some are not so lucky.  But shortly, we learn we are only as valuable as what we can accomplish.  School tells us we matter if we get the best grades.  Sports tell us we matter if we can beat the other guy.  Our...
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