Hood Workout

The Hip Hop Preacher (Eric Thomas) motivating a bit more. You can’t count the cost because you might quit. You have to do what it takes.

Another reason not to workout in the gym, all those distractions…

Who wants to drop 210 pounds doing barbell presses.

A little love from the ladies on the bars putting in work. The playground is not just for the men’s workout.

Remember this as you go into the weekend. Weekends for me are two extra days for two long workouts…

These gymnastics guys put together a decent bar workout, which included muscle ups, burpees, and a variety of other bar work.

I been looking for pain… CT is back at this, motivating, letting you know what it is. Not much you can add to a CT video.

“Nothing sounds cleaner than a pair of 45′s slapping together”

A bit of parkour for the today in a plane graveyard..

If you don’t make it out of the house much or don’t have a playground to work out in, why not just build an obstacle course in your room…

I went into the Carolina Spartan Sprint wanting to enjoy a fun run. I had done a road 5k the week before, at right under 33 minutes. I have done a handful of other 5k OCR’s in under 50 minutes. My longest runs ever were just over 3 miles. The race conditions in Charlotte were not ideal, the temperature was in the mid 40′s and wet the entire day. The only bit that was good about the weather was that it was motivating to keep moving, if you stopped you suffered.

Note the video is of the 2012 Carolina Sprint, which had a different course design.

I did the race with six others, I finished right in the middle of our group. The goal was to complete it together. A few got frustrated early with the single track long lines and sprinted ahead. I did the same later in the race.

As we approached the starting line, our group hung back, not looking to blaze the trails. Looking back this was a mistake. We didn’t realize that within a few hundred yards there was a bottleneck crossing a bridge that spanned over the manmade kayak course. This bridge got us off the island and headed towards the trails. It seemed the first mile was pretty open (2-3 people wide) mostly downhill with only one obstacle (the short walls: over, under, through).
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Little playground workout motivation. It is finally warming up here in North Carolina, time to hit the workouts hard.