2-15-10 Coach’s Corner

I just wanted to give a shout out to everyone and let you guys know that I am proud of the work I’ve been seeing in the gym. Everyone is working hard and kicking some serious tail on the WOD’s! Our membership and community is steadily growing and we are very excited about bringing CrossFit, Health, and Fitness to new people! Keep up the great work. Now for some announcements:

The Spring Leaning Challenge Nutritional Lecture is tentatively scheduled for 3pm this Sunday Feb. 21. If you have not heard about this challenge I will enlighten you… We are having a gym wide challenge to see who can make the biggest body transformation in a 7 week time frame. It will begin with a nutritonal lecture given by me, Sunday at 3pm. The entire gym is invited to attend the lecture. If you want to participate in the contest this is how it’s going to go down: Everyone will have a 15 dollar buy in whereby 10 dollars will go into the kitty. After the lecture we will take before pictures. These pictures will be done in private and kept private unless you end up in the top two male or female participants, more on this later. Men will be photographed shirtless and wearing shorts. Women will be photographed in sports bra and shorts. In order to participate you must join the online discussion group and post what you eat every day. This will allow for some accountability on your part. You can lie if you want, but we will know the truth in the end . We will continue to train like we normally do, and after 7 weeks we will take after pictures. Angie, Shannon, and I will vote privately on the before and after pics. We will narrow it down to the top two men and women. Then the participants will pick the top male and female winner. The pot of money will be split among the two winners.

A couple of points:
1. We are hoping to have almost the entire gym participate in this challenge.
2. You don’t have to if you don’t want to but the goal is to have another aspect to bring our community even closer.
3. The more people that participate the more money there will be in the pot.
4. Also, the more people that participate the better results the entire gym will have.
5. Many of you who have been kind of slacking on nutrition could use some extra incentive to work harder on it… here it is: monetary incentive and peer pressure!
6. The online posting will hold people accountable and also serve as an idea or think tank for people that are struggling with the lifestyle.
7. With our new video camera I am planning on picking a couple of volunteers to interview and film during the 7 week period. We will post their interviews on youtube and facebook and let the world know what they are doing to make a healthy lifestyle change. We are very excited about this, and I believe these people can be the stars of our gym! so be thinking about if you would like to volunteer for that.
8. This challenge has a potential to be a life changing experience and I sincerely hope and believe that it will be if you buy in!! So, let’s keep kicking tail and get our nutrition on!

Any questions feel free to call or email me. I hope to at least see everyone at the lecture on Sunday.