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Its that time of the year, folks. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will be wowed by how fast and how much people can move. Celebrate your peers achievements, set your goals high, but dont take yourself too seriously. Enjoy, have fun. After all, spring is here. Get a beer that matches your lifting shoes and kick back!
Jasons secret to making chains look good: Pile them on, and accessorize them with an extra 45# sup? Do these chains make me look hot or what?
Xans secret to making chains look good: wear them shirtless so the sweat glistening enhances the shine Junior with his family, making the chains part of the background
These guys secret to making chains look good: smile, pretend its not hard, intimidate the others making it look easy. If you are Gymbelle, add a kettle bell.
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Ariel here taking the whole beast thing to another level. Yeah, yeah, the gas mask will train him optimally, but has he thought about how much more intimidating he looks? Downright scary would be a better description. Would you ever know he is sweet from this picture? Nope! This is what it takes to win a fight at the Tropicana!
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Clearly, there is some unspoken competition to look the most like The Karate Kid. Sorry Ben and Adam, neither of you will ever be Ralph Macchio, but good try.
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challenging to me & real- with Eroc at NYSC a few days a week and he really ly out of my comfort zone started to change my view on exercise in that I didn't so I am proud I did it. have to do straight cardio for an hour or lift little 10# dumbells. The short intense exercise we do now & Lifting in family: I get any that I started with Eroc is what works & XF really of my athletic ability from pushed that to the next level. I also never thought my dad. He played football at Rutgers & has always been very active. He was always my biggest about lifting heavy. Seeing EJ & Allison put up big numbers is awesome & so inspiring it pushes me to want to get there.
smiled, tried IIPP I I R RR to act casual but I turned & looked in 2) save up $...6am gear gets expensive (shoes, the mirror & V necks...it adds up!) saw my pants were 3) Don't pick on ripped along the seam from below the waist Paige...she will leave you band to more than halfway down my butt. Oh, did I mention I don't wear underwear crying in the corner defeated...just ask V. She is under workout pants? (TMI?? I don't smarter & quicker than care). To make it worse, I Sorry, Paige! all of us. had to walk ALL the way So, Amy, what weight across the gym to get to are you lifting tomor4) Did you know that the locker room with row? And what will Vikram asks me what pants ripped & my butt you be wearing? Perweight I am using beshowing. Sad part is, I haps a V-neck? fore almost every actually thought about workout?! finishing up my workout. So weird, no one looked me in the face at the gym for like a week after that. I actually kept those pants in my drawer for a year just so every time I opened it I would laugh....
is too easy...but I have a good one about me!! I was about 22 years old & worked out at Planet Fitness ($10 a month...can't beat that!) I was in the dumbbell section with all the guys with my little workout pants & little tank on, thinking I was all hot sh*t doing weighted lunges. Again, 22 thinking "I'm looking good!", some older guy comes up to me & says "ummm, I know I shouldn't be looking but your pants are ripped" I
5) Jared has a really bizarre relationship with the Wodfather. It's mind boggling how in sync they are.
Also, if I can't make fun of Vikram's outfit, I feel like the whole day is a wash.
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What do you see on the WOD that makes you cringe but you make yourself go anyway? Pretty much everything. Double unders may be the death of me though...if I had to choose one. What movement do you rock? I've been told I'm a decent squatter Was the Hail to the Queens your first XF competition? Yes. I signed up at the last minute- peer pressure LOL. Basically it's all Katie's fault. How was the experience? Who can remember....just kidding. It was a great experience, it was great to be in it with so many of us CFM girls and such a strong
showing of people who came out to watch and cheer us on. It was also very inspiring. I mean EJ is a legend, Amy couldn't do pull ups or HSPU 2 weeks before the competition and was determined to learn them and compete RX'd and she did it.....incredible! What other competitions/races have you participated in? I did the Moore half marathon last year, the spartan race when it first came out (ask EJ and Cat about it- I think we all have scars in memory of that race) What makes you decide to do them?
Oh, the WODfather makes all of his WODchildren compete or he completley disowns us.
What would you tell someone who was on the fence about competing? Do it. there's nothing to lost really and it just makes you want to get better.
Paige, the color choices are red, green, blue, or black! Yellow is not an option!
Love is a beautiful thing, so is a group of sweaty people who push each other and are color coordinated.
Cmon baby!
The Queens all-women competition has turned into one of the gyms most attended and supported annual competitions. Lets celebrate strong women!
Strategizing
Cuidado is right!
No, Self Magazine will not call you nor will you win a bout at the Tropicana doing this!
Skinny V, Patrick Gavin, and Ron had babies! Not together, of course! On the left we have Skinnys future snatcher boy, on the right is Rons beautiful daughter who will out squat all of us.