170629 - Throwback Thursday - "How's it Going?"

When athletes walk into the gym, I make the rounds and ask everyone "How's it going?"

These seemingly innocuous, often throwaway words are a diagnostic tool. I can tell what kind of training session an athlete will have, based off their answer. This is very unscientific evaluation, but an important one, because it's measuring the emotional strength of the athlete at that moment. 

If you're firing on all cylinders and ready to work, your response will reflect that. If you ate like shit, you got 4 hours of broken sleep and are stressed about the 10 different things on your plate, it will be obvious with your demeanor and answer. If you're hurt and still feel the need to train despite knowing that you should take it easy, know that you're pretty see-through. 

I've already mentioned a few things that negatively affect you. How many of those things can you improve with some simple lifestyle changes?  Sleep? Stress? Nutrition? Excessive Training?

Making those changes, one by one and little by little will dramatically improve your work in the gym. Your work in the gym will then dramatically improve your life outside the gym and so on and so on. So ask yourself:

How's it going?

POSE Method Skills & Drills

WOD - 20 Min. AMRAP
400 Meter Run
Max Pull-Ups
(Score is how many total pull-ups)