It’s a common phrase heard around the gym as the weekend approaches – “I can’t wait until this Saturday (or Sunday)! It’s my cheat day!” It’s understandable that after all of your hard work during the week that you’d look forward to a chance to “reward” yourself. However, maybe adding an entire day of destruction to your week and actually marking it on your social calendar may not be the best way to roll.
It’s important that you come to see the way that you feed yourself as less of a diet and more of a lifestyle. A diet sounds like something that is meant to be temporary. A lifestyle is something that we live – day in and day out. Part of building a lifestyle is developing habits. Just like we practice highly technical lifts like cleans and snatches repetitively to gain competence of movement, we must practice that same basic competence in making our food choices as well. Devoting a whole day to binge eating is like going into the gym and deciding to miss all of your lift attempts with a weight that is too heavy for you. How is that going to make you better?
Instead, it might be better to reward yourself every now and then with a single meal where all bets are off. This is more realistic. Going back to the analogy of training in the gym – if you miss a rep, you learn from that mistake and adjust to succeed on your next attempt. If you plan a cheat meal or life just happens (parties, Thanksgiving, Super Bowl, etc.), then you are just one meal away from getting back on track. That way the relationship with food becomes less destructive and we are able to reinforce good habits and get back on track.
WOD – 10.02.2012
All Levels:
15 minute Skill/Strength work: Ring holds (hold in support with rings turned out), Ring dips – band assist, strict ring dips, muscle-ups.
10-8-6-4-2
10m Bear Crawls
Handstand push ups
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Level One:
Same as All Levels
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Awesome post
May want to Bring tape or gloves… Bear Crawls will leave huge blisters on your palms!!!
That’s a lot of bear crawls.
My wod time 17:22 24 box
Awesome wod not:(
Did a few dips on the rings! Yay! Thanks coach D and Carlie!
WOD
19:20 with 1 ab mat. I was falling over a bit but I chipped away one by one and finished.
Good job on your HSPU’s Renee and your Ring Dips
4 x 3 of muscle ups.
20:10 Rx.
Wod: 16:25,24box….and I agree with Maggie!!!
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WOD 17:56 bands
Holy hell!!! Grrrrrrrr!!!
22:54 15#seated presses
That was a tough one!!!
12:40 bands kinda liked it! Sorry everyone. Now to get those handstand push ups and muscle ups I’d ne a rocking!!!! More training here I come!! Everyone one else so inspired by you all!
16:12 with 1 and then 2 abmats
Holy bear crawls!! Thank God Im a hunter and not the hunted…I’d be effed. lol
You guys all did awesome at the 9:30 class. Stoked I got to see everyone!!
haha! It was really good to see you this morning!
wod: 18:58rx. yes chrissy, i now have nice palm blisters.
Wow…love me some Bear Crawls!!! NOT!!!
My legs were on fire..It was hard for me to get through 10m without making noises(growling) 
So apparently wonderful Chrissy had a much harder way to do them and so that is what we did
12:02 RX’d
17:36 24″box.
I had the whole place to myself today during the 12:30 class. Maybe it’s cause normal people wouldn’t dare doing this WOD in this heat
Guess what I have been working on???? Any guesses??? Oh let me just tell you…My new Updated Burpees List….That’s right an updated version……
Olga (seriously did you not learn?)
Milan (I warned you yesterday)
Josh Hanrahan (going down)
Tristen (Someone warn him)
Ryan Krause(really we just discussed this ryan)
Vinnie Delaney (yes you vinnie)
Barry Baker (you need to be posting)
Tanya
Vanessa
Shalsea Hantz
Derrick
Tatiana
Ray
Cassie Stone
James
Rachelle
Imelda
Sarah Keith(someone warn her)
Hey guys be a friend and don’t let your friends WOD and not Post!!! No one want to have to do extra Burpees before or after a WOD!!
WOD: 20:37 AB Mat
First post… Thanks for the support!
11:07 RX
Nice to have you back Angela!! Take it easy!!
Did my first muscle up today! I ended up doing about ten of them. It only took me a year to figure out how to do it. Did a modified WOD today. Shout out to everyone who said F the heat and went and got their WOD on!!!!
congrats Robert!!
Nice job!!
Congrats Robert…So proud of you
11:08
WOD: 20:37 AB Mat
First post…Thanks for everyone’s support
You are doing Awesome Paul!!!
5 strict muscle ups (non consecutive)
WOD 10:50 Rx
12:43 with bands…but hopefully not for long!!
Great WOD! The Bear crawls wasn’t so bad, but the Handstsnd Bupees where bloody murder mate! I tried kipping HSPU but all I could get was singles. Big guy needs to go back to the lab and work on HSPU project.
1 pad (I should of grabbed 2)
24: something ; )
Title of this WOD-”Death by HSPU’s”
15:19 w/ 24″ box
I agree w/ Danielle, my quads were on fire to the
Point of failure! That’s never happened to me
B4! And I think the growling must b part of the
Exercise hence the name right?
Good job 5:30 crew!!
My hands are destroyed! but another great workout!
Time-15:21
Handstand Pushups on a 20″ box.
Monique 10:31 green band
Emery 12:26 ab mat
Ray 12:23 1 ab mat
Tatiana 12:23 ab mat
Nice work guys
Muscle ups
10:15 1 ab mat
Ring dips and m/u progressions
WoD: 15:51 green/blue bands on hspu
I think this “cheat day” post was dedicated to me and Darrin!!! We love us our cheat day. We talk about having pancakes for breakfast, hamburger (with bun) and french fries for lunch, pasta, bread and cherry wheat beer …and of course its all about the DESSERT! But when it comes to that day…we don’t even indulge in half of that…plus we always split our meals. The whole lifestyle change is happening with us. Definitely easier with no kids in the house. (empty nesters).
WOD:
practicing false grips and muscle ups with blue band.
glenda- 9:53 1 abmat ( I think it helps being low to the ground)
darrin- 9:17 2 abmats
800 M run post WOD w/ Bob
13.33 bear crawls kicked my butt
Monique 10:31 green band
Emery 12:26 ab mat
Ray 12:23 1 ab mat
Tatiana 12:23 ab mat box
Wod- 14:33 – 2 ab mats. Think I graduated to just 1 ab mat from now on. Good job 5:30, it was sweltering in the box today!!
My hands are tore up!!!
No muscle ups yet…
19:45
It should be noted…I did use ONE Ab Mat for the HSPUs
WOD time was 14:44. Only made it through 10-8-6
WOD time 15:10 18″box handstand push-ups! That was fun!! Good Work Kellee! You pushed real hard!