Kim and Sarah looking strong! We're in our first week of the New Year Whole Life Challenge. The Whole Life Challenge (WLC) is more than a nutrition challenge. The WLC aims to improve our habits in nutrition, hydration, exercise, mobility, sleep, introspection, and a weekly rotating habit. This week's healthy lifestyle habit is mindful breathing. The instructions are simple:
The WLC folks think this healthy lifestyle practice is important because: "Can you recall a time when something got you really scared or upset? One of the things you may recall from that moment is that the quality of your breath changed. To recover your calm, you may have told yourself (or had someone tell you), “Just breathe.” Breathing down into your belly, moving past your chest, may have restored both your physical and your mental state. Breathing is, of course, natural and for the most part automatic. The cool thing is that we can control our breathing to control our anxiety, stress and arousal. The folks at WLC are not the only ones who value breath control. SealFit encourages a box breathing practice. Power, Speed and Endurance offers classes and workshops on the Art of Breath.
I encourage all of you, even those of you not doing the WLC, to spend some time this week focusing on your breathing. Good luck!
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Today's WOD will make you swole like Jessie. Today's Technique Tuesday video will help save your wrists during our kettlebell complex. All of us are very good at American and Russian swings. But, we can use the kettlebell for so much more! Yes, you can even do Olympic style weightlifting with the kettlebell. The kettlebell clean is quite different than a barbell clean, but both movements share the development of hip drive and power, speed and coordination. Ben, Laurie, Mercedes and Siri do some banded mobility during the Snatch Clinic. What a GREAT Snatch clinic we had yesterday! Thanks to everyone who attended. We are offering a Clean & Jerk clinic 9-noon on Saturday. Feb 4. Class is capped at 8, so sign up soon! Our New Year Whole Life Challenge started on Saturday. Are you bummed you didn't sign up for this challenge. Well, don't have FOMO! You can still sign up! Sign up today and take an important step toward a healthier lifestyle. One of the 7 healthy lifestyle factors we practice in the WLC is daily mobility. The WLC supports us by providing weekly, follow along mobility videos. These videos can be followed along at home, on a work or school break, or at Goals and Goats on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Today we are doing our WLC workout and taking measurements (if you haven't already taken them in your New Year Check-In.) Remember, Complete Nutrition will be at the 5:30PM class giving free InBody body fat and weight measurements for all WLC players. They are also support our WLC with free meal plans and at home workouts. |
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