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Here is what Brian L. had to say last month in his YEAR IN REVIEW: "I cant believe it’s been a year already! It was November 20, 2008 during my lunch hour that I decided to walk down the street and see what this place was all about. Chris ran me through the Baseline (8:40) which I knew wasn’t too awesome but had no idea I would be cranking that down to (4:39) now and ready to push that further again! I came back two days later for my first official class on an early Saturday morning, Maribel was teaching, and all that was written on the white board was ‘Deck of Death’...my post comments Nice…my first official workout here and I soon come to realize it’s no joke! . I remember Maribel scoffing at my weight choice for the DB Thrusters and talked me up 20# which nearly destroyed me, and from that day forward I was hooked.I’ve done the ‘Gym’ thing a few times before, I’ve had memberships I only paid for and never used, some that I actually went to but was stuck in the bench press, dumbbell curl, elliptical, routine that seemed to offer no results. Growing up I was heavily involved in team sports, Hockey, Baseball, Soccer, and always excelled when I had friends with me doing what we like. I find that when you surround yourself with goal oriented, like minded people in a positive environment, your potential is limitless. This is what we have here and it’s as much about the people we do it with as it is what we actually do. Over the course of this year I have made some great friends here and even though I only get to see but a small fraction of our ‘community’, know that I am following your progress on the forums and rooting you on from the sidelines.
Thank you Crossfit for introducing me to Burpees
Thank you Crossfit for Tabata Squats
Thank you Crossfit for PVC Abmat Situps
Thank you Crossfit for Fran, Grace, Nancy, Murph, Jackie, Annie, Lynne, FGB, Filthy 50 and more…
Thank you Crossfit for kicking my ass into the best shape of my life at 33
Thank you Crossfit for a great year
See you on the White Board!
Brian L."
JULIAN gets a feel for the SUMO-DEADLIFT!
Workout of the Day
"2009 NorCal Regional Qualifier"
For time:
Row 500m
30 Burpees
10 Shoulder to Overhead (anyhow) #185
PALEO RECIPE
"Bear Roast"
4 lb Bear meat
Pepper to taste
Celery salt to taste
2 Garlic cloves
8 oz (piece) Salt pork
Season the bear meat with the celery salt an pepper and place in a stock pot, adding the garlic, salt pork, and enough water to cover; Cook `til meat is tender, then drain RESERVING the pan juices. Place the meat in a roasting pan and top with the onions, roast at 350x until brown, basting with the reserved juices. Thicken the remaining juices for gravy. Enjoy!
"We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present."-Thomas Edison
It has been a real joy to watch every one come through this door to find a better way. A better way to live, from day to day. They have also discovered an incredible collection of family, friends and students. I would like to THANK this entire community for the sincere energy and effort you have all put forth to build "The Brickhouse." This is my home away from home! Thanks for an AMAZING 2009!
1) I am 49 and in the best shape I have been in for over 25 years - and I was working out continuously the entire time.
2) I owe this entirely to the program and the community at Lalanne Fitness.
And that, really, is it. You can quit reading here, or, for a lengthier review:
There are two components that make Lalanne Fitness easily the best place to train that I have encountered in over 35 years of constant working out. These are:
1) The Crossfit program.
2) The Lalanne community.
The Crossfit Program is brilliant. Everything you need to know about the theory is contained in the article - "What is Crossfit?" What is particularly exciting about the Lalanne approach to the Crossfit Program is that Chris keeps up on developments and nuances that may challenge some of the standard practices of Crossfit, like limiting workouts to 20 minutes, or implementing the latest research on fasting or limited meals vs. The Zone, etc.
But, still, I could do Crossfit in my garage, using nothing but what is available on the web for programming. What makes Lalanne really unique is the community. Chris and Maribel have without doubt built the most supportive, dedicated and familial environment in which I have ever trained. And I have trained in some pretty amazing places. The combination of all the competition you could want, plus support, genuine concern and good feelings from the other members makes this a - I hesitate to call it a gym, but don't have another name - gym without peer in my experience.
Chris and Maribel, thank you for 2009. I am stronger, faster and fitter than I have been in ages. I am really looking forward to 2010 and being stronger at 50 than I was at 25.
Happy New Year!
When I met health, it was accident. I wasn't looking for it, I wasn't on the make, I just laced one shoe after another. Next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that run.
For me fitness was a cycle of recurrence, you go to a gym whenever, some weeks more then others. Some years are worse then the last. Banking off a false promise that, "I may not have time right now, but I will get back in shape." "I'll lose this gut, I'll turn back into the athlete I once was."
Time will past in which I will get lost. The world is full of costly turns and F***ed up twists. So people have a way of missing the decline of their health.
I never put much thought into it. Every so often I'll make successful attempts rolling back into a gym for whatever reason with friends. I mean a moment like this, yeah, your healthy. But then that moment passes, and health becomes a ghost. Then getting back into shape are just words. I know you mean them, but what do they mean to you?
A lot of people look at health and fitness with gyms scoring points on them, having measuring success on how many they can sign up. While trainers and health mags are getting their students and readers to: look, act, and think more as they do.
But health is not a trend; it should not be a promise on the back burner, or a cycle of recurrence.
-This is your life! This is your health! When it’s gone, there isn't anything in the world I would yearn more for.
Chris, Maribel, and everyone else through out this gym past and present has taught me more then ever before health should take place as a staple. Not a trend of recurrence for whenever I may schedule time for it. Or feel it’s important because of a season in the year. But this is your life; this is your health if lucky enough to control. Chris, Maribel, and The CrossFit community has built something extraordinary. Every single person in this gym inspires the individual next to them help look more like the person they want to be- "their best self". Crossfit is completely nuts, in a way that makes you smile. -Highly rewarding. A great effort is demanded of you.
You may not dig it, you may laugh, or might not agree. -And that’s okay. One truth doesn't negate the other. I love fitness in my way. And you can love fitness in your form. Its not a one path trail, there is much to have of all understandings of health.
We're all in our own race, on our own island wanting to come out a better version for when we woke up.
But here, when "Ready-Set-Go" roars out we will be in sync fighting this battle. But our wars will end, in refusal to be defeated by ourselves. Every man and women focuses on measuring up externally all throughout fitness you hear: How much weight he or she has? What are they using as mechanics, technique, even diet. You commonly hear tellings of "My biggest gain; My biggest growth” Your not becoming 20lbs stronger in a workout! Your muscles are not doubling in size (no matter how many W.O.D.s you fit in that week). Our biggest gain is internally; my biggest growth was not hearing quit from my soul. We all come to a wall, where we don’t have it in us
-Your telling yourself you need to quit. One or two options arise: You either face your workout and master it, or you can work in doubt and be mastered by it.
The miracle is you train to pick one, climbing that wall. Finishing one rep at a time, not thinking how it will, or if it can. But just knowing that it will.
The inability to quit is the greatest growth within myself that has sparked since crossfit. In my opinion it's one of the greatest things you can take way in any form of health. For that I am forever grateful and thankful to every student, trainer, and W.O.D. that has brought me there! Lacing one shoe after another, knowing I want to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that run.
“Much love to everyone who has made the brick house what it is”!
Yours faithfully,
McLovin (Julian Marquez) Jan. 01, 2010