Use your Fitness (outside)! Even when SHTF!

A perfect example of why improving our Fitness and Health is so important:

It was about 10 minutes before Spartan SGX class this past Tuesday and I was on the lawn putting away the hoses I use for irrigation.

I was in a t-shirt, shorts, socks, and a half-laced up pair of Belleville ABU Flight Boots.

While I was moving the hoses and pipes around, an exquisite-looking BMW with tinted windows and sweet rims drove by on the street and came to a rolling stop. 

When the BMW came to the rolling stop, I heard an audible "clink!"

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Hit it! Row, row, and row!

Yesterday I took the time to head up to Smiths Ferry, Idaho to visit with an awesome friend to raft the Payette River for the first time. He was our guide at the aft of his raft for the 4 of us forward of his position in the raft as we made our way down the 9.75 mile route on the river.

Since this was my first time, there was an element of the unknown that I had to deal with and conquer. But I knew that I could fully place my trust in my friend to lead us through, based on his years of experience doing this. 

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Consistency: Keep Showing Up, Keep Digging

We all have our goals, e.g. to be at X Body Fat % by Y Date, or to finish the next Spartan Sprint in Z time, or to do 5 pull-ups in a row...

We'll work on the specific tasks we need to accomplish in order to reach our goals, but what the most important aspect of this is to be consistent.

A little everyday will go a long way.

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How much is your time worth?

Meal preparation ahead of time certainly saves time and especially your money.

The bottom line: if you're able to devote time that you would be using to prepare your meals every day during the week, to other value-added activities and even business/income generation, then bulk meal preparation is for you.

Bulk meal preparation, or meal prep, saves you time, money, and effort, and you're better able to eat nutritious meals as well.

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Super Breakfast Idea

Try this one out to vary up your breakfast choices!

Acquire your Materials for Production :) on the weekend, and prepare your breakfast meals ahead of time, preferably RIGHT AFTER buying them...

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Metabolic Conditioning

Once we've got our nutrition or fueling down pat, it's now time to transport and use that fuel properly through training - metabolic conditioning.

We should be conditioning our body's ability to metabolize, or break down (and use), the carbohydrates, fat, and protein we're ingesting as fuel in different situations, through training.

In the grand scheme of things we need to be able to perform work, or generate power output in all time durations and kinds of activities well, in order to be determined as fit

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The Open

Come join at 6PM on Fridays starting 2/23 for 5 weeks, ending on 3/23, in participating in the annual CrossFit Games Open competition!

For most of us who have been training at Idahome Movement Academy for several months now, this will be a fun chance to see where our fitness level is compared to that of hundreds of thousands all around the world!

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For what are you getting Better?

Many of us are unconsciously operating from a position of self-hatred, self-judgment, and shame that we hate ourselves for the way we are and that is what spurs us to improve ourselves. This may not prove to be the best way.

What Kornfield says that we should do instead is to love and accept ourselves for the way we are while we seek to improve ourselves.

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"...keep moving forward..."

Is your "Why" an Intrinsic or Extrinsic, Motivation? In other words is your motivation from within, or from something like a product, person to strive to be like, or even a prize that you would earn through all your hard work?

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Taste the Rainbow and Save Money! (For breakfast)

Breakfast Idea (take as much as you want and need from this one):
1 Red Onion ($1.23) (1.24 pounds * $0.99/pound)
1 Red Bell Pepper ($1.29)
1 Yellow Bell Pepper ($1.29)
1/2 bundle of Organic Green Kale ($0.99)
12 oz bacon ($4.99)
1 Tbsp Coconut Oil ($0.15) ($24.99 for 84 fl oz from Costco - 170 Tbsp)

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