Lessons from My Grandmother
Wisdom from our elders!
At 95, my grandmother still had a spring in her step. She rode her electric bicycle potters around her vegetable garden and walked a mile or so daily.
There's a fearlessness about her that, even as her body started to slow down, she went about her life healthy, happy, and unassuming. This got me thinking about how she's lived and what I can learn from her.
Living the Right Way
As a farmer's wife, she worked hard on the farm with my late Grandfather. She ate her grown fruit and vegetables, drank milk straight from the cows, got fresh eggs in the mornings from the chickens, and ate meat from the animals they kept. There was no processed food in her life, nothing from a jar or packet, no soda or unnecessary sugars, chemicals, or hormones. Just homegrown goodness!
She was very active working on the farm, riding horses, walking the dogs, checking the electric fence boundaries, loading hay bales, carrying milk and teaching me and my brothers how to swim.
She lived exactly how humans are designed to; very active, hunting, gathering, and eating what we now know as a paleo diet.
Wisdom from our elders
For many years, I have asked her what the secret to a long life is, and she always replied with a cheeky smile, "A small glass of medicine every day" - referring to her whiskey!
Although funny, I realise she enjoyed each day for what it was. She doesn't want material things or wonder how life might be. She never sweated the small stuff.
There is no absolute secret to a long life. We don't know what we are dealt. However, we all need to eat better, move more, and stress less.
There is wisdom in our elders, and we can sometimes overlook the simplicity of their lives. It's hard to imagine that they were once our age and that, if we're lucky, we'll live to see their age someday!
Fun - Honesty - SIMPLICITY - Smash Life - Mental Toughness - Hard Work
ENGINE
40 minutes of continuous engine work. Bring your running shoes, we will do a machine waterfall format with a run at the end of each round.
GYMNASTICS
We focus on the infamous bar muscle and the Handstand push-up in gymnastics. As always, we break down the skills, and these sessions are for all levels!
HYROX
Working on your efficiency during the 8 stations: how to save energy and when to push. No running this week.
MOBILITY
We continue with thoracic & overhead mobility but are now moving it into more exercises that can replicate the positions, such as an overhead squat.
PURE STRENGTH
This week in pure strength, we have a new block of training focused on single-leg lower body strength and hip thrusts as our accessory. Wednesday, we begin our DB press progressions along with some shoulder hypertrophy.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in weightlifting, we are focused on some Tall variations of the clean and Jerk. Then, hitting a heavy clean push press and jerk complex followed by a tough EMOM
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Track Tuesday
A threshold workout today, 400m all the way up to 1.2km. Great for all runners.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Sport City Track
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Wednesday Ride
A prep ride for T100, steady power into surges!
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: BOTS, Al Qudra
Coffee Run
Supersets! A hard surge of speed super set with a longer but lower intensity block. A good run to build run IQ and do with friends.
Brief time: 05:54 am Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Start Location (Common Grounds)
Monday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Tempo
This Monday we will be holding that Tempo pace (7/10 effort) for 8 mins blocks, off 3 min recovery. The efforts are slightly longer in duration this week, but only 3x instead of 4x, so that we can maintain great quality.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Sports City
Session: Track Tuesday
Yes, we are back on the track! Today we will be running 400s up to 1200s at 3km pace. A chance to work hard with the wider endurance community and coaches.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Intervals
Todays intervals shuttle runs through the park behind InnerFight (approx 100m). This is a short and explosive session with plenty of rest (300m). Aim for 8, 10 or 12 reps.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Kite Beach
Session: The Coffee Run
This week you are running hard for 1 minute into a tempo hold of 5 mins. Following a 3 min recovery, you will repeat this sequence 5x.
Friday - Sunday
All weekend
Location: Khorfakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
This weekend we will host our first ever LRC Training Camp. There will be a combination of running and relaxing. We look forward to training with you.
Monday:
Strength:
Building to a 1 Rep Max Bench Press
Conditioning:
50 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
40 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
30 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
Tuesday:
Strength:
Barbell Tempo RDLs
Conditioning:
5 min AMRAP
6 Deadlift (120/80)
9 Box jump over
12/9 cal Row
rest 3 mins
x3
Wednesday:
Strength:
A) Handstand Push Ups
B) Weighted Pull Ups
Conditioning:
2 rounds
Park Run
12 pull-ups
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
half park run
12 Pull-ups
3 wall walks
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
Pool Run
12 pull-ups
3 wall walks
20 push press (2 x 50/30)
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Clean Complex
B) Build to a Max Power Clean
Conditioning:
5 Rounds for time
10 Power clean (60/40)
10 burpee over the bar
14 Min TC
Friday:
Strength:
Build to a heavy Thruster!
Conditioning:
8 Rounds of fun with a KB, The Ski and Sandbags!
At 95, my grandmother still had a spring in her step. She rode her electric bicycle potters around her vegetable garden and walked a mile or so daily.
There's a fearlessness about her that, even as her body started to slow down, she went about her life healthy, happy, and unassuming. This got me thinking about how she's lived and what I can learn from her.
Living the Right Way
As a farmer's wife, she worked hard on the farm with my late Grandfather. She ate her grown fruit and vegetables, drank milk straight from the cows, got fresh eggs in the mornings from the chickens, and ate meat from the animals they kept. There was no processed food in her life, nothing from a jar or packet, no soda or unnecessary sugars, chemicals, or hormones. Just homegrown goodness!
She was very active working on the farm, riding horses, walking the dogs, checking the electric fence boundaries, loading hay bales, carrying milk and teaching me and my brothers how to swim.
She lived exactly how humans are designed to; very active, hunting, gathering, and eating what we now know as a paleo diet.
Wisdom from our elders
For many years, I have asked her what the secret to a long life is, and she always replied with a cheeky smile, "A small glass of medicine every day" - referring to her whiskey!
Although funny, I realise she enjoyed each day for what it was. She doesn't want material things or wonder how life might be. She never sweated the small stuff.
There is no absolute secret to a long life. We don't know what we are dealt. However, we all need to eat better, move more, and stress less.
There is wisdom in our elders, and we can sometimes overlook the simplicity of their lives. It's hard to imagine that they were once our age and that, if we're lucky, we'll live to see their age someday!
Fun - Honesty - SIMPLICITY - Smash Life - Mental Toughness - Hard Work
Track Tuesday
A threshold workout today, 400m all the way up to 1.2km. Great for all runners.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Sport City Track
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Wednesday Ride
A prep ride for T100, steady power into surges!
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: BOTS, Al Qudra
Coffee Run
Supersets! A hard surge of speed super set with a longer but lower intensity block. A good run to build run IQ and do with friends.
Brief time: 05:54 am Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Start Location (Common Grounds)
Monday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Tempo
This Monday we will be holding that Tempo pace (7/10 effort) for 8 mins blocks, off 3 min recovery. The efforts are slightly longer in duration this week, but only 3x instead of 4x, so that we can maintain great quality.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Sports City
Session: Track Tuesday
Yes, we are back on the track! Today we will be running 400s up to 1200s at 3km pace. A chance to work hard with the wider endurance community and coaches.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Intervals
Todays intervals shuttle runs through the park behind InnerFight (approx 100m). This is a short and explosive session with plenty of rest (300m). Aim for 8, 10 or 12 reps.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Kite Beach
Session: The Coffee Run
This week you are running hard for 1 minute into a tempo hold of 5 mins. Following a 3 min recovery, you will repeat this sequence 5x.
Friday - Sunday
All weekend
Location: Khorfakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
This weekend we will host our first ever LRC Training Camp. There will be a combination of running and relaxing. We look forward to training with you.
Monday:
Strength:
Building to a 1 Rep Max Bench Press
Conditioning:
50 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
40 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
30 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
Tuesday:
Strength:
Barbell Tempo RDLs
Conditioning:
5 min AMRAP
6 Deadlift (120/80)
9 Box jump over
12/9 cal Row
rest 3 mins
x3
Wednesday:
Strength:
A) Handstand Push Ups
B) Weighted Pull Ups
Conditioning:
2 rounds
Park Run
12 pull-ups
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
half park run
12 Pull-ups
3 wall walks
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
Pool Run
12 pull-ups
3 wall walks
20 push press (2 x 50/30)
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Clean Complex
B) Build to a Max Power Clean
Conditioning:
5 Rounds for time
10 Power clean (60/40)
10 burpee over the bar
14 Min TC
Friday:
Strength:
Build to a heavy Thruster!
Conditioning:
8 Rounds of fun with a KB, The Ski and Sandbags!
ENGINE
40 minutes of continuous engine work. Bring your running shoes, we will do a machine waterfall format with a run at the end of each round.
GYMNASTICS
We focus on the infamous bar muscle and the Handstand push-up in gymnastics. As always, we break down the skills, and these sessions are for all levels!
HYROX
Working on your efficiency during the 8 stations: how to save energy and when to push. No running this week.
MOBILITY
We continue with thoracic & overhead mobility but are now moving it into more exercises that can replicate the positions, such as an overhead squat.
PURE STRENGTH
This week in pure strength, we have a new block of training focused on single-leg lower body strength and hip thrusts as our accessory. Wednesday, we begin our DB press progressions along with some shoulder hypertrophy.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in weightlifting, we are focused on some Tall variations of the clean and Jerk. Then, hitting a heavy clean push press and jerk complex followed by a tough EMOM
At 95, my grandmother still had a spring in her step. She rode her electric bicycle potters around her vegetable garden and walked a mile or so daily.
There's a fearlessness about her that, even as her body started to slow down, she went about her life healthy, happy, and unassuming. This got me thinking about how she's lived and what I can learn from her.
Living the Right Way
As a farmer's wife, she worked hard on the farm with my late Grandfather. She ate her grown fruit and vegetables, drank milk straight from the cows, got fresh eggs in the mornings from the chickens, and ate meat from the animals they kept. There was no processed food in her life, nothing from a jar or packet, no soda or unnecessary sugars, chemicals, or hormones. Just homegrown goodness!
She was very active working on the farm, riding horses, walking the dogs, checking the electric fence boundaries, loading hay bales, carrying milk and teaching me and my brothers how to swim.
She lived exactly how humans are designed to; very active, hunting, gathering, and eating what we now know as a paleo diet.
Wisdom from our elders
For many years, I have asked her what the secret to a long life is, and she always replied with a cheeky smile, "A small glass of medicine every day" - referring to her whiskey!
Although funny, I realise she enjoyed each day for what it was. She doesn't want material things or wonder how life might be. She never sweated the small stuff.
There is no absolute secret to a long life. We don't know what we are dealt. However, we all need to eat better, move more, and stress less.
There is wisdom in our elders, and we can sometimes overlook the simplicity of their lives. It's hard to imagine that they were once our age and that, if we're lucky, we'll live to see their age someday!
Fun - Honesty - SIMPLICITY - Smash Life - Mental Toughness - Hard Work
Monday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Tempo
This Monday we will be holding that Tempo pace (7/10 effort) for 8 mins blocks, off 3 min recovery. The efforts are slightly longer in duration this week, but only 3x instead of 4x, so that we can maintain great quality.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Sports City
Session: Track Tuesday
Yes, we are back on the track! Today we will be running 400s up to 1200s at 3km pace. A chance to work hard with the wider endurance community and coaches.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Intervals
Todays intervals shuttle runs through the park behind InnerFight (approx 100m). This is a short and explosive session with plenty of rest (300m). Aim for 8, 10 or 12 reps.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Kite Beach
Session: The Coffee Run
This week you are running hard for 1 minute into a tempo hold of 5 mins. Following a 3 min recovery, you will repeat this sequence 5x.
Friday - Sunday
All weekend
Location: Khorfakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
This weekend we will host our first ever LRC Training Camp. There will be a combination of running and relaxing. We look forward to training with you.
Monday:
Strength:
Building to a 1 Rep Max Bench Press
Conditioning:
50 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
40 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
30 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
Tuesday:
Strength:
Barbell Tempo RDLs
Conditioning:
5 min AMRAP
6 Deadlift (120/80)
9 Box jump over
12/9 cal Row
rest 3 mins
x3
Wednesday:
Strength:
A) Handstand Push Ups
B) Weighted Pull Ups
Conditioning:
2 rounds
Park Run
12 pull-ups
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
half park run
12 Pull-ups
3 wall walks
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
Pool Run
12 pull-ups
3 wall walks
20 push press (2 x 50/30)
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Clean Complex
B) Build to a Max Power Clean
Conditioning:
5 Rounds for time
10 Power clean (60/40)
10 burpee over the bar
14 Min TC
Friday:
Strength:
Build to a heavy Thruster!
Conditioning:
8 Rounds of fun with a KB, The Ski and Sandbags!
ENGINE
40 minutes of continuous engine work. Bring your running shoes, we will do a machine waterfall format with a run at the end of each round.
GYMNASTICS
We focus on the infamous bar muscle and the Handstand push-up in gymnastics. As always, we break down the skills, and these sessions are for all levels!
HYROX
Working on your efficiency during the 8 stations: how to save energy and when to push. No running this week.
MOBILITY
We continue with thoracic & overhead mobility but are now moving it into more exercises that can replicate the positions, such as an overhead squat.
PURE STRENGTH
This week in pure strength, we have a new block of training focused on single-leg lower body strength and hip thrusts as our accessory. Wednesday, we begin our DB press progressions along with some shoulder hypertrophy.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in weightlifting, we are focused on some Tall variations of the clean and Jerk. Then, hitting a heavy clean push press and jerk complex followed by a tough EMOM
Track Tuesday
A threshold workout today, 400m all the way up to 1.2km. Great for all runners.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Sport City Track
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Wednesday Ride
A prep ride for T100, steady power into surges!
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: BOTS, Al Qudra
Coffee Run
Supersets! A hard surge of speed super set with a longer but lower intensity block. A good run to build run IQ and do with friends.
Brief time: 05:54 am Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Start Location (Common Grounds)
At 95, my grandmother still had a spring in her step. She rode her electric bicycle potters around her vegetable garden and walked a mile or so daily.
There's a fearlessness about her that, even as her body started to slow down, she went about her life healthy, happy, and unassuming. This got me thinking about how she's lived and what I can learn from her.
Living the Right Way
As a farmer's wife, she worked hard on the farm with my late Grandfather. She ate her grown fruit and vegetables, drank milk straight from the cows, got fresh eggs in the mornings from the chickens, and ate meat from the animals they kept. There was no processed food in her life, nothing from a jar or packet, no soda or unnecessary sugars, chemicals, or hormones. Just homegrown goodness!
She was very active working on the farm, riding horses, walking the dogs, checking the electric fence boundaries, loading hay bales, carrying milk and teaching me and my brothers how to swim.
She lived exactly how humans are designed to; very active, hunting, gathering, and eating what we now know as a paleo diet.
Wisdom from our elders
For many years, I have asked her what the secret to a long life is, and she always replied with a cheeky smile, "A small glass of medicine every day" - referring to her whiskey!
Although funny, I realise she enjoyed each day for what it was. She doesn't want material things or wonder how life might be. She never sweated the small stuff.
There is no absolute secret to a long life. We don't know what we are dealt. However, we all need to eat better, move more, and stress less.
There is wisdom in our elders, and we can sometimes overlook the simplicity of their lives. It's hard to imagine that they were once our age and that, if we're lucky, we'll live to see their age someday!
Fun - Honesty - SIMPLICITY - Smash Life - Mental Toughness - Hard Work
At 95, my grandmother still had a spring in her step. She rode her electric bicycle potters around her vegetable garden and walked a mile or so daily.
There's a fearlessness about her that, even as her body started to slow down, she went about her life healthy, happy, and unassuming. This got me thinking about how she's lived and what I can learn from her.
Living the Right Way
As a farmer's wife, she worked hard on the farm with my late Grandfather. She ate her grown fruit and vegetables, drank milk straight from the cows, got fresh eggs in the mornings from the chickens, and ate meat from the animals they kept. There was no processed food in her life, nothing from a jar or packet, no soda or unnecessary sugars, chemicals, or hormones. Just homegrown goodness!
She was very active working on the farm, riding horses, walking the dogs, checking the electric fence boundaries, loading hay bales, carrying milk and teaching me and my brothers how to swim.
She lived exactly how humans are designed to; very active, hunting, gathering, and eating what we now know as a paleo diet.
Wisdom from our elders
For many years, I have asked her what the secret to a long life is, and she always replied with a cheeky smile, "A small glass of medicine every day" - referring to her whiskey!
Although funny, I realise she enjoyed each day for what it was. She doesn't want material things or wonder how life might be. She never sweated the small stuff.
There is no absolute secret to a long life. We don't know what we are dealt. However, we all need to eat better, move more, and stress less.
There is wisdom in our elders, and we can sometimes overlook the simplicity of their lives. It's hard to imagine that they were once our age and that, if we're lucky, we'll live to see their age someday!
Fun - Honesty - SIMPLICITY - Smash Life - Mental Toughness - Hard Work
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