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Great Friday to you Friend!


Did you ever get one of those days where you didn't want to workout, but you did it anyways?  Today was that day.  There was a continual dialogue going on b/w "the man on the donkey and the donkey" and I decided I would just do the next exercise and then, when that thought process became vulnerable, I decided I would just go through the motion b/c you can also earn a personal record by showing up and doing more total workouts in a week or month.  And then, I got a 2nd wind, and all was all right.  :-)


Moral of the Story:  Show Up.  Focus on Completing the Next Thing.  Go Slow or Go Light Until You Can Go Fast or Heavy.  If You Can't Do those, You Still Move Forward by Being There.



Since I'm flying high and feeling good because I changed my state, I'm going to rock the rest of my day! 



And now it's your turn.



Private Measurements
7-9am, Sat, Aug 29 @ MC. 
"What gets measured gets managed!"  (Peter Drucker)
RSVP Now to Track if you finished summer better than you started!


Cardio Minutes - Week 3
Time          Day 1          Day 2          Day 3          Total
6:00am     18                20                24                62
9:00am     18                20                24                62
6:30pm     18                20                19                57
FYI:  Minutes are due Monday. 


Challenge Workouts
video: Challenge Workout #2
video: Challenge Workout #3
video: Challenge Workout #4 (no video, use pdf)
Here are the in class results of the P9, CW#1.



Empowerment Week Plan
Everyone is at different stages. 

  • Those who have been away and not participating regularly in strength & conditioning workouts, I encourage you to start training to ramp yourself for your return. Choose from the workouts here.

  • Those who have been away and training regularly, ask yourself what you need, whether it's to do more or less S&C, add some yoga, massage, PT, hydrotherapy... or something else. 

  • Those who have been here, unless you're beat up and need to supplement physical therapy with your regular training or you have some bandwidth demanding events, happening, I encourage you to keep going.  Consider a day, weekend or week off from training come fall, but otherwise, it's time to get yourself strong & enduring for a strong & enduring fall. 

  • Those who need to unload for events or life, refresh yourself here on how to unload.


Phase 10
- Bring a Guest Month

We return, Monday, September 7.

That week is a special schedule week:
6am, M / W / F @ BG
9am, M / W / F @ MC
6:30pm, M / T / F @ MC

The month will be a power endurance phase to both peak people for September events and make a gradual transition into the fall (the workouts will be simple, yet challenging; fast, energizing and effective)

Since we'll hit the ground running on week 1, every day in the month of September will be a guest day
Your people are my people.  You're the average of the 5 people you hang out with most, so why not build up some of your regular peeps and invite some others you'd like to get to know better.  Please have them submit a completed waiver 24 hours in advance to participate.



Your coach,



Mike Alves








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