Moving and being awesome: What this has taught me and is continuing to teach me

 Sometimes there are days that I wake up and I really literally don't want to move. It may be because I am tired, have too much on my mind, or just want to sleep in. All of these things that sometimes run across my mind I have come to find are my "blockers" or excuses that are possibly moving me away from continuing my success. You could even say that food, alcohol and certain social relationships were also blocking me from great success also.

 Since January 2015 I have committed myself to becoming better, to move more and in different ways than I ever thought of before. At first I wasn't sure if I could do it; starting over was going to be hard. But I have continued down a path of wanting and needing more, demanding more and feeling successful along the way. This weekend I participated in a fun and friendly competition called the Sweatcreate Games with my local gym Sweat360 and our gym affiliate for jujitsu Recreate Fitness in Portland. Talk about the most fun experience ever! Good friendly competition, lifting some heavy ish, playing some corn hole, a little tug o' war and followed by a sweet barbecue?! It was so fun and I don't think I've laughed more and played any harder in my life! All of these type of group events I would have shied away from 5 years ago before I came to Sweat360.

 An awesome person and fellow Sweat athlete Jenn broke down her day of how much she lifted during these various events. I went ahead and went back through to see what I could remember. Some of my highlights were the following:

Deadlifts: 135lbs x 60 reps = 8,100 lbs. total in a 5 minute time cap

Push Press: two 20 lb. kettle bells (40lbs) x 100 reps= 4,000 lbs. pressed in a 5 minute time cap

- 1 45 lb. kettle bell  and 1 60 lb. sand bag carried down and back of the front area of the gym during a times weight carrying challenge with our team of 6. We were all able to carry a ton of med balls, sand bags and bells in 56 seconds! :)


- Was able to complete two laps around the building, 21 -35 # kettle bell swings and 12 pull ups with some resistance band assistance in 3 minutes!


- Was able to help the fantastic team of 6 I was in be the overall winner of the games by team. (We didn't win against recreate overall as our gym but still I WILL TAKE IT!

 All of these things are awesome. What is really came down to for me personally was it wasn't about being the best person in the group, and it really wasn't about winning for me. The best thing I took out of being a part of this group and my team was SHOWING UP and DOING MY BEST.

 

Because of doing these things it had AMAZING OUTCOMES!

 SOOO much fun. I hope to be doing more fun events like this soon! Here are some of the awesome highlight photos from yesterday. Moving is such a fun and awesome thing. I am so happy I have decided to make this a part of my daily life, routine and moving forward. Things like these type of fun events continue to show me how far I have come and how far I truly can go and excel with my fitness.

Photos to prove how much fun we had on Saturday!

 

 

Rob da "cheerleader" for the day! This was during the challenge of carrying all those items collectively as a group down and back for time! Awesome coach and wonderfully fun times!

 

 

During my deadlifts! Love being in front of the barbell!

 

 

During tug of war! Yup that's right! We won our first round and lost the second but it was so much fun! An awesome way to test even more strength after tiring ourselves out with other various events!

 

 

Push Press: In 5 minutes I was able to get 100 reps with two 20 # kettle bells.

 

 

These people. Gym Family= The best people ever.