September 30

Today your legs rest.
CrossFit Warmup x 2
Shoulder Press 5-5-5-3-3-3
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"Safety, efficacy, and efficiency are three interrelated concepts that need to be managed together. A perfectly safe program is either completely ineffective or arduously inefficient. You can't have it both ways. I wish it weren't true, but it is." -Coach Budding

Imagine what NASCAR would be like if they required all participants to drive at low speeds to reduce the risk of crashing, or if they required all NFL lineman to lose weight to make it a safer game for the quarterback. Ha! The truth is that in sport and in life there are risks. So no bullshit here -- if you train with us for a full year or two you will likely be injured in our gym. Our program is designed to be effective and efficient, not perfectly safe. The machines at a globo gym are much safer. What we do is not, and all of you know this from our waiver. Most injuries here aren't serious -- a strained shoulder here, a twisted ankle there, a knicked shin every now and then -- and you will recover if you back off and give the injured joint the rest that it needs. So while we want you all to harden the f*#& up, we also want you to take care of yourself. True athletes have the tenacity to work through injures with care, patience and determination.

| Posted September 29, 2009 8:17 PM

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