ActiveX Training

ActiveX - 08.20.08: "Parade of Fools"

ActiveArch — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:06:17 GMT

A fun :30 workout that paraded us around the building so everyone not choosing to participate could see what they were missing out on!

1 Round

400 m lunge single file, where people can see you
100 body rows
400 m run BACKWARDS
100 sit ups

ActiveX - 08.18.08: Four Corners of ****

ActiveArch — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:41:43 GMT

Wow, this one was brutal.

4 rounds:

25 wall burpees
25 full-extension sit ups
50m sprint
50m weighted lunges 20lb men, 10lb women, held overhead
bearcrawl down 4 flights of stairs
25 wall dips

ActiveX - 08.15.08: Turkish Bath of Sweat

ActiveArch — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:02:15 GMT

3 Rounds

20 Turkish Get Ups
20, 4 count scissor kick abs
run 400
20 pull ups
20 plyo push ups
run 400 BACKWARDS

ActiveX - 08.13.08: Road Rage IV

ActiveArch — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:41:05 GMT

Two times down and up Lusk Blvd http://.5 mile down, .5 mile up alternating 10 push ups and 10 sit ups every 2 mintues. Always with your head down hill.

ActiveX - 08.11.08: 300

ActiveArch — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:14:34 GMT

Huge group today, 40+!

Run 400
25 body rows
Run 400
50 push ups,
50 wipers w/partner,
50 lunges each leg
50 dumb bell swings
50 sit ups
run 400
25 body rows
Run 400

ActiveX - 08.08.08: Running through a wall head first

ActiveArch — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:27:46 GMT

1 Painful Round, Teams of 2

200 Wall Ball Shots total 20lbs men, 12lbs women http://community.active.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=per+team
400 run with wall ball above head
50 pull ups
400 run with wall ball above head
100 Wall Ball Shots

ActiveX - 08.06.08: Canyon Run

ActiveArch — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:07:55 GMT

4 mile run followed by 2 x 25 ab throwdowns. Hot, dusty, but oh so good.

ActiveX - 08.04.08: Shoeless Joe

ActiveArch — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:00:35 GMT

4 Rounds:

25 push ups
25 sit ups
25 dips
400 run
25 pull ups
400 run
5 x 20 second handstands

ActiveX - 8.1.08: Tekillya Sunrise

ActiveArch — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:57:35 GMT

Thanks to all who showed up for the AM workout.

400m run
25 pull ups
400m run
50 mustang burpees
50 dumb bell swings
50 scissor abs
50 push press
50 wall ball shots
50 sumo squats
400m run
25 pull ups
400m run

ActiveX - 7.30.08: Post-TRImatic

ActiveArch — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:43:14 GMT

4 Rounds

30 "weighted" sit ups
Run 200 m with arms extended, weight over head
100 "speed" jump rope
30 push ups
Run 200 m with arms extended, weight over head

ActiveX - Cockadoodledoo: 7.11.08

ActiveArch — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:45:55 GMT

4 Rounds starting behind parking garage

30 push ups
30 sit ups

Run to corner of parking lot with 20lb weight overhead, set weight down, run down to tennis court area and do 25 "pull ups" on the railing

Run back to 20lb. weight

Run back to start with weight overhead

repeat

Why We Do It

ActiveArch — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:05:45 GMT

All - this is an email I recieved from Carrie that she recently sent to friends and family. I found it incredibly rewarding to read. Take a look.

Hi Support Team!

Well many of you have been asking what I've been up to these last few months and "where have you been?!" so I wanted to send out an update. I have sailed over some personal hurdles/goals of mine in the last few weeks and am more proud of myself than I have ever been in my life, and that is such a cool feeling.

I AM NOT AN ATHLETE.

I have been telling myself that for the last 27 years. I have always been a singer. I do music, not sports. I go to the gym and run a little 5K here or there just to stay in shape, and I wakeboard and snowboard, but only because it's fun, and because it's a social thing. I have never pushed myself at snowboarding or any other sport to be better; I just do it well enough that I can get down the mountain without looking like a total idiot and I don't really desire to become "awesome". I have never participated in team sports. I think I was on my middle school volleyball team for a year and I played on a roller hockey league for a few months my freshman year of high school. But I've never consistently committed to a sport and been on a team with teammates who encourage me to push myself, or had a coach yelling at me to work harder, push harder, achieve more.

UNTIL NOW.

So here I am at 27, working at the Active Network with all of these IronMan triathletes, endurance runners, cyclists, adventure racers, and I find myself training for my first triathlon. Talk about a corporate culture wearing off on its employees! I'm training with about 80 of my colleagues for the XTerra Wetsuits Solana Beach Triathlon, including the majority of my team. We do these intense boot camp-type workouts every MWF on the roof of the parking garage at work; it's very "Fight Club"-esque. Lots of grunting and sweating. These workouts are hard, and I think the only reason I get through them is the peer pressure - positive peer pressure - of 50 other people grunting and sweating and pushing themselves together. I find myself crab crawling face-first down a staircase, and hear one of my coleagues shout out "Way to go, Carrie!" "Keep it up!"

We have started these weekend brick workouts that include two of the triathlon events - we'll do a bike/run or a bike/swim. I find myself dolphin diving into ocean waves and swimming out farther than I ever thought I could, completing an 800m ocean swim with the San Diego Tri Club, only my second time in the open water. One of my colleagues, Arch, who runs our bootcamp workouts, swims back to the back of the pack, where I'm at, to make sure I'm doing okay and encourage me the rest of the way into the beach. I was the slowest one in the pack, but through proud tears in the car on the way home I thought, "heck, I'm the slowest person who just swam 800 meters in the open ocean with a bunch of seasoned triathletes!! Not bad!

Last Saturday we did a brick workout on Coronado Island. We did a 15 mile bike ride right into a 3 mile run. I humbled myself and jumped into a pair of spandex biking shorts and hit the road. The 7.5 miles out was not bad, but the second half was like biking into a fierce wind tunnel. Exhausting. Only to get off the bike and run 3 miles with rubbery legs! One of my friends and I were the last two finishers in the pack last Saturday but I thought "Hey, I was one of the slowest people who just biked 15 miles and ran 3!! Not bad!"

So I find myself transforming into an athlete. Thanks to my best friend Alanna and some loving encouragement from her direction, I have been pushing myself athletically more than I ever have in my life. I do the ActiveX boot camp workouts at lunchtime and then come home and run 3 miles on the bay and do stairs. Double workouts have become the norm and I like it. My co-workers and I walk around every day complaining (but really bragging) about how sore our legs are, or how blistered our hands are from doing handstands on the roof of the parking garage the day before. My triple tan lines from sports bras, workout tops and my ugly one piece Speedo swimsuit have become badges of honor. I now feel like I am part of a team, for the first time in my life. My Active triathlon training team, with Arch as our coach, encouraging and pushing us along the way. "Hands off your hips on those squats, James, unless you wanna be a cheater!". I am achieving things athletically that I never thou
ght I could do, and I am so, so proud of myself. The athletic focus I have has transfered over into other aspects of my life; I am finally recording that demo CD I've talked about doing for six months; I'm more focused and driven at work than I have ever been, and I am even more focused about how I spend my free time.

I don't think my colleagues even know how big of a deal this will be for me to finish this triathlon, for the first time in my life, as an athlete. I am sure there will be tears, but that's okay. I will be wet from the ocean anyway so hopefully no one will notice. HA

Thanks again for all of your support - your generous donations to the Monarch School, your prayers, and your words of encouragement as I attempt my first triathlon!

Carrie

If you feel led to donate to the Monarch School, that's awesome! Click on the link below and it's a pretty simple process from there.
http://www.active.com/donate/teamactivex/CarriesFirstTri

Thank you!!

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Want to donate or help? Simply go to the link below:

http://www.active.com/donate/teamactivex/CarriesFirstTri

ActiveX - 6.11.08: Tiers of Joy

ActiveArch — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:00:19 GMT

My View of Toby's SD 100

ActiveArch — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:49:53 GMT

Saturday afternoon/night, I witnessed something amazing. I made the drive out to the Cuymacha to watch Toby Guillette conquer his FIRST 100 mile race. I made the drive back to San Diego in silence, letting my mind deconstruct what I had just experienced. What Toby accomplished is a lot to get your head around. 100 miles. In 24 hours. In the heat, the desert cold, dirty, sweaty, shivering. Consuming a calulated number of buffet-like calories at every check point. So well planned, so incredibly thought out, his support team executing in unison perfection, Toby was a machine.

It's not about going a 7 minute mile. It's about going. And going. Much like the Energizer Bunny, but with root beer, watermelon, Snickers bars, and PB&Js as the fuel. A masterpiece of kinesthetic and caloric management shared by a group of 5 + Toby. And he executed to a T.

Toby, well done, my friend. I want to buy you a beer and hear all of the stories, as I'm sure there are many. I'm a fan.

Arch

ActiveX - How To #1

ActiveArch — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:24:33 GMT

The first "How-to" session will be tomorrow at 11:30 AM in the basement of the parking garage. We'll go no longer than 1 hour, if that. The first 20 people to sign up by responding to this posting should attend. I will have additional sessions next week!

Again, please sign up by responding to this posting. Thanks!