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What does it take to have had enough?  At what point do you say this is not working?  I can do so much better.  Some people have had enough when they get too big for their clothes.  It is much cheaper to lose those ten or twenty pounds than it is to go buy a whole new wardrobe.  

At some point you or someone you know will say enough is enough.  This could be about weight, slowing down, eating terribly, back pain, being weak, drinking too much, or not exercising at all.  I have said that`s it I am going to stop this or that and start doing this for all of these reasons.  

I want you to come in for a personal training session so I know exactly where you are with your fitness journey right now.  I have Tuesday and Thursday mornings available at 6 am, 7am, 9 am, or 330 pm.  The first three people to respond with pick me will have a free personal training session, a one year training program to follow, and a free month of small group training!

When I was 23 almost 24 I hurt my back for the first time.  I think I had two discs slip.  It sounded like two little birds eggs cracking and was incredibly painful.  I never heard the sound again but the discs seemed to slip and bring me insane amounts of pain 8 or 9 more times over the next 8-9 years.  Basically every time this happened it would take me 10-15 minutes to stand even remotely upright and even then I would not be upright and be walking like a 90 year old man.  What did I do?  I went to the chiropractor for a while but he told me to do some things that I knew were bad for me so I chose to learn more, train differently, and train smarter.  Now I have not hurt my back in over three years.

When I felt slower and less mobile I learned to train more with bands, started doing more movement stuff and less heavy lifting.  Things like band resisted side shuffles, band resisted backwards running, band resisted broad jumps.  Yesterday I did band resisted backwards running while dribbling a basketball.  That is an awesome exercise especially when you add in crossover, behind the back, and through the leg dribbles.  

If you need some help come on in for a week and I will do the best I can to come up with a plan to help you.  Maybe all you need is a little direction something like a training plan to do on your own or in your gym.  Maybe you need a hybrid plan something like a training plan to do on your one personal training session per week or two small group sessions per week or month.

I want you to come in for a personal training session so I know exactly where you are with your fitness journey right now.  I have Tuesday and Thursday mornings available at 6 am, 7am, 9 am, or 330 pm.  The first three people to respond with pick me will have a free personal training session, a one year training program to follow, and a free month of small group training!

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Just because I can does not mean that I should!

The Crossfit Open 16.1 is happening.  Their are over 8,000 Crossfit gyms in the world and probably over 200,000 people will do the 16.1 workout.  I can do this workout but that does not mean that I should.  The 16.1 for a man includes walking lunges with a 95 pound bar overhead 8 burpees, 8 chest to bar pullups, and the walking lunges with the 95 pound bar again.  You do as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes.  Yes I know I can do this and I could probably get 6 rounds.  But will it make my life better?  No.  Will it get me closer to my goals?  No.

These are not the reasons though that I should not do this workout.  The reason I should not do this workout is that lunges hurt and not in a good way.  Lunges really hurt my left knee.  I can lunge but I should not lunge.  This is why I will not be doing the 16.1.

My workout today will make me better, will make me stronger, will not leave me so sore that I cannot function properly the next few days, and most importantly get me ready for Australian Rules Football season.  You see the workouts that hammerheads do not only make you ready for anything but they really do make you resilient against injury and sickness.

Case in point I get sick about once a year.  In my 8 years of playing arguably the most dangerous sport in the world I have only had two real injuries a bruised rib and a minor torn mcl and these were both before I started Jackhammer Strength Training and developed all of my training systems.

My workout today will consist of:

Zercher squats
Bench Press Lock Outs
Weighted Dips
Light Barbell Military Presses probably 3 sets of 8

for cardio 20-10 rounds on the:

airdyne bike
hitting the heavy bag
a jump variation
fast short range motion pushups

If you are going to do the 16.1 and the rest of the Crossfit Open good luck. This is almost certainly going to be the easiest of the Open. If you would like something with more variety and more emphasis on the power lifts as opposed to the Olympic lifts come on in for a free week of small group training at Jackhammer Strength Training located at 3002 McKinley Ave. Columbus, Oh 43204 very close to Upper Arlington, Grandview, and Hilliard.