SHOCK THERAPY 4: THE LUMBERJACK 20

The Lumberjack 20 named for the soldiers and civillians killed On November 5, 2009, by a terrorist named Major Nidal Hasan. Its purpose is to get you outside your comfort zone, forcing you to show courage and become as badass as you can be.

 

A CrossFit hero WOD is not meant to be an everyday training regimen, nor should it be. These workouts are nasty, and for good reason, they take you to a place that you may never have been before. A level of discomfort that is indescribable to most that have never been there, and when it is over, you should feel accomplished not because of the time on the clock, but the fact that you finished, the fact that you put it all out there to honor a fallen Hero.

 

Give this workout everything you have. It will be tough, but in the end, I promise you will be proud of what just went down.

 

Lumberjack 20

• Deadlifts 20 reps
• Run 400 meters
• Kettlebell Swings 20 reps
• Run 400 meters
• Overhead Squats 20 reps
• Run 400 meters
• Burpees 20 reps
• Run 400 meters
• Chest-to-Bar Pull-Ups 20 reps
• Run 400 meters
• Box Jumps 20 reps
• Run 400 meters
• Dumbbell Squat Cleans 20 reps
• Run 400 meters

GYM BELLE: ABBYE 'PUDGY' STOCKTON

 

Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton was a pioneer of women’s body-building, and she did much to increase interest in weight training among women.

 

Pudgy was anything but pudgy. She had a strong looking, well-proportioned and athletic build, and she radiated good health and vitality. She was one of the first body-builders to show that weight training can help women look and feel better. She first lifted weights to help tone her body and improve her self image after a period of weight gain lowered her self esteem and reduced her natural beauty. After taking up weight training, Pudgy won the nationwide “Miss Venus” contest.

 

 

Following her victory, she helped women across the world improve their figures through her “Barbelles” column in Strength and Health, a monthly column which debuted in the July, 1944 issue of the magazine. Pudgy also opened and operated a health studio in Santa Monica, California with her husband Les, a former lifting star.

 

On June 26, 2006 Pudgy passed away. How many of the hundreds of thousands of women today who engage in weight lifting, power lifting, bodybuilding or other form of exercise for health and vitality realize the debt of gratitude owed to Pudgy Stockton? She was a true trailblazer and a woman of strength

 

 

 

MYTHICAL BADASS: DIOMEDES

 

"He fights with fury and fills men's souls with panic. I hold him mightiest of them all; we did not fear even their great champion Achilles, son of an immortal though he be, as we do this man: his rage is beyond all bounds, and there is none can vie with him in prowess." "While my Strength yet exists, not a single foe will escape me with life. The brave man makes an end of every foe."