Overhead Squat 5-5-5-5-5 @ 3011
AMRAP 10 Minutes:
60 Bar Facing Burpees
30 Overhead Squats 115/75
As many of you know, Travis and I have been working hard to improve the gym. There have already been some subtle changes and finally one not so subtle change. It’s awesome isn’t it? As many of you appreciate, we have a very special training atmosphere and we have even more up our sleeve to keep making it better. One of the things that we want is for our membership in general to continue developing a stronger sense pride in the facility.
CFES is almost 6 years old now and has suffered much wear and tear. This mostly due to you all kicking so much ass, but there is also unnecessary wear from people just not giving a fuck. Travis and I have been busting our asses and spending significantly more $$$ to keep this place kleen and to improve our facility. Yes this is our gym, but this is also your gym, and maybe even more importantly it is your peers’ gym. When you make a mess and leave it, you aren’t just leaving it for us to clean up, you are leaving it to slime the rest of your friends who work out here. When you stand up and crank the AirDyne as hard as you can until you break it, it will be broken affecting other people until Nautilus can send up the right parts on the 2nd or 3rd try. When you drop a KB on the wood lifting deck… well it will just leave a dent for all of us to stand in forever.
The bottom line, treat this place like it is your own, because it is. Take pride in the place we all train in together and have respect for others around you as they do not want to come in to the mess you left behind.
Now Lets Have a Little Chalk Talk
Pulling your chalk covered hands out of the bucket and slanging the excess all over the place is bad gym etiquette. I remember reading in Greg Everett’s book about lifting, “The trail of chalk in the gym leads to the novice.”
Here’s how to use the chalk like a pro.
Worse than the excess chalk dust on the floor is the fat free chalk milk that was left behind by someone trying to use chalk bucket like a towel. If you are someone who sweats so much that your hands are dripping chalk milk all over the gym, please carry and use a gym towel.
Another chalk phenomenon that goes on is where people get chalk as an excuse to not be picking up the bar again. It’s kinda like going to the water fountain when water isn’t going to help. So when you are feeling the misery of the WOD and your mind wants you to puss out, don’t get chalk, pick up the bar again.
We spent all weekend (with more to come) pimping this place out and kleening up. Then after the very first class of the Monday morning V V V
If you make these type of chalk puddles, as quite a few of you do, ask me where the simple green, rags and vacuum are at. Carry a towel and use reasonable amounts of chalk. I should not be cleaning up all day instead of coaching, and you all should not be working out in the last person’s filth. Also whoever slimes the front door glass with your shoulder on the way out every other day, when I catch you, I am gonna kick you in the balls.
Please think about it from this perspective. You are a member here. You wear the t-shirt and tell all your friends/family what you lifted and how fast you did the WOD last week. Take a few extra minutes to actually show that you care about your gym, your friends and the people who work hard every day to provide a great training atmosphere. This concept applies to the bathrooms as well. Just because nobody can see you in there doesn’t mean someone you know isn’t going in there next. This isn’t a country club where you get pampered and throw your shit on the floor in the locker room for “the help” to clean up. It’s your gym too, simply take pride in it and leave it better than you found it.
On a positive note I want to give a should out to someone who exemplified the concepts of taking pride in the gym and having respect for her peers yesterday. The best part is that nobody asked her to do this. She simply said, I wouldn’t want to come in to use a rowing machine that was left like this. Thank you Ari!
