May 2013
1 post
5 tags
25: The Year of Growth
Birthdays often present an opportunity to look back and reminisce on what the past year (or years) have turned out like. Upon rowing my active recovery row this morning, I decided to use that time to reflect on the past year - afterall, it has been a crazy year, and I’ve encountered the most growth in a year as an individual than I ever have before.  Some growth highlights from 2012 that...
May 9th
April 2013
9 posts
2 tags
Apr 29th
1 note
5 tags
“There are certain kinds of people that are purely driven. I can tell who they...”
– Kobe Bryant
Apr 24th
3 notes
6 tags
Apr 9th
3 notes
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to...”
– Muhammad Ali (via myignition)
Apr 9th
3 notes
“Revisit your why…. and reconnect with the pleasure of desire and let go of...”
Apr 5th
“Have you ever thought that maybe the pressure you put upon yourself is a block for you to perform the way you actually can? .. You write these words like “trust” and “believe” to motivate yourself, but do you actually trust yourself to do what we all know you can do? .. You need to let go. You need to stop thinking about where you want to go and just (fucking) go...
Apr 5th
1 note
1 tag
Apr 4th
1 note
3 tags
Apr 3rd
1 note
4 tags
Apr 3rd
1 note
March 2013
3 posts
4 tags
Mar 27th
5 notes
5 tags
believe|achieve
That’s the difference one year makes. TRUST - the word written under my rings last year during 12.4. TRUST - meaning, I didn’t trust myself to get up over the rings. Achieving those muscle-ups were only something I half believed in. Last year I finished with four muscle-ups, and seven attempts. This year as 13.3 was released, I knew it was going to be different. I was frothing at...
Mar 22nd
1 note
7 tags
Mar 1st
February 2013
1 post
6 tags
“You need to lose a few times, need to lick your wounds and taste your own blood,...”
– -ESPN’s Bill Simmons, which described the killer instinct elite NBA stars need to truly be great.
Feb 8th
8 notes
January 2013
2 posts
1 tag
“You know the chessboard? The board is made of wood, and the pawns are made of...”
– Swami Satchinanada 
Jan 18th
5 tags
“As I patiently wait in the shadows, I see my competition offering deals and...”
– Eric Pelletier, CrossFit Overcome 
Jan 3rd
2 notes
December 2012
2 posts
7 tags
Dec 15th
1 note
6 tags
Dec 12th
November 2012
2 posts
5 tags
“You can deal with almost any “what”, when you have a deeper more compelling...”
– TH
Nov 24th
1 note
5 tags
Versus →
So jacked up.
Nov 24th
1 note
September 2012
1 post
6 tags
Upward and Onward
Here We Go Again. I just celebrated my one-year “CJversary.” It’s just been over a year that I’ve worked under CJ Martin of CrossFit Invictus. There was no better way to celebrate than competing this past weekend in Synergy’s Bridge City Beat Down - the same competition I competed in shortly after taking CJ on board a year ago. After the best collective performance...
Sep 14th
3 notes
August 2012
4 posts
4 tags
“Stay strong.”
Aug 28th
2 notes
6 tags
Aug 26th
1 note
5 tags
Aug 23rd
6 tags
“Don’t give up what you want most for what you want in the moment.”
Aug 22nd
July 2012
4 posts
6 tags
Jul 25th
1 note
4 tags
“Break through that wall, it’s the only way to get strong.”
Jul 20th
1 note
7 tags
Jul 20th
3 notes
Jul 18th
2 notes
June 2012
2 posts
5 tags
Jun 28th
2 notes
7 tags
"Rest"
So this is what rest feels like. Low(er) volume leaves me some time to actually have some hobbies and do some things I enjoy that normally get tossed aside.  In the last few weeks, I’ve read a handful of books, and that’s incredibly odd of me. I don’t normally have the patience for reading, but I’ve devoured about 6 books. Not bad for this ADD child. I’ve also had...
Jun 12th
1 note
May 2012
5 posts
8 tags
May 23rd
1 note
6 tags
May 8th
5 notes
3 tags
Identity
I thought I had a pretty good grasp on who I was. For as long as I can remember, basketball has always been the center of who I am. It defined me. The person I am today is pretty much because of basketball and all things that revolve around the sport. Basketball taught me respect, humility, confidence, and many other things. It gave me the grit and the ability to put my head down and push. It...
May 4th
6 tags
Reebok CrossFit Games Canada West Regional 2012
Focused for WOD 3. I’ve had this empty blog post open for about three days now. I started to write things over and over, only to erase it each time. People around me keep asking me, “So, how was Regionals?” And I really don’t know what to say. It strikes me as odd, that I can’t quite come up with an answer, when this is something I’m so...
May 4th
3 notes
4 tags
May 2nd
4 notes
April 2012
8 posts
7 tags
“Whenever I’d get to a point where all the training and the hours put in...”
– OPT, himself.
Apr 23rd
1 note
8 tags
FEAR
Yesterday I sent out a tweet asking how one overcomes their fears. Fear is a crazy thing. I thought I originally had such a strong feeling toward handling fear, as my fear mantra has always been: Fear isn’t a good enough reason not to do something. In this instance, my perspective on fear was different. Fear manifests itself in all kinds of different forms - it can be unfamiliar...
Apr 22nd
3 tags
“How do you overcome something that scares you? You never lose your fears. The...”
Apr 21st
3 tags
“Nothing can stop a big heart, and yours will take you a long way.”
Apr 20th
2 notes
11 tags
Apr 20th
3 tags
Apr 19th
2 notes
4 tags
Apr 12th
1 note
8 tags
Apr 3rd
1 note
March 2012
2 posts
7 tags
Mar 27th
6 notes
3 tags
Mar 6th
1 note
February 2012
2 posts
5 tags
Feb 29th
2 notes
4 tags
Feb 28th
2 notes
January 2012
2 posts
5 tags
Jan 5th
16 notes
3 tags
Performance Anxiety
Fear is never a good enough reason not to do something. I belong there.
Jan 3rd
3 notes