Sunday Story…Right

Not fast.

The other day I was talking to someone about pushups. How to do them correctly, why to do them correctly, what the full range of motion looks like, and how to scale them when fatigue sets in. We want to do them right not fast. That being said, we also want to do them right fast. Once we understand what “right” looks like we can concentrate on fast.

This is a microcosm for the rest of your life. Take your nutrition…are you opting for fast instead of right? Are you eating “good enough” or enough good? It takes too much time to measure the food? Are you guessing your portion sizes? Fast food is rarely right food.

What about your relationships? Are you doing “drive-by” check-ins? Are you allowing your loved ones to be superficial? Are you listening deeply and carefully? You can’t love fast, you need to love right.

John Wooden once said, “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” You don’t become the best you can become fast. You become the best you can become by doing things right.

Do it right not fast.

John Mariotti
www.crossfitodyssey.com
www.sunday-stories.blogspot.com
775-338-2412

Sunday Story…Nutritionally speaking

We often use a pyramid to illustrate your progression to better fitness. At the bottom of that pyramid is nutrition. Nutrition, AKA the food you eat, lies at the base of your health and fitness. It is that simple. You cannot out exercise a bad diet. There is no number of burpees that will compensate for eating crap (Calorie-Rich-And-Pathetic).

If you want to look better, feel better, and be healthier then you must eat better. It starts with a commitment to eat real food, prepared well, in a healthy environment. Then you must eat the right things. Then you must eat the right things in the correct amounts. None of this is terribly complex; it is, as I often say, simple but not easy.

We start with food quality and move to the correct macronutrient and calorie levels. Food timing and supplements are last on the list. The food we start with is lean meats and fish, next vegetables, followed by fruits and a limited amount of nuts and healthy fats and oils. At the top of the list are the grains and complex foods like bread and pasta. Those foods are calorically dense and, often, nutritionally weak so we really need to watch our intake on those.

We are about to launch a new nutritional support program. It will have several levels of support to help guide you to success. It will also include a measuring system called an In-Body that will give us a way to track your progress. Stay tuned for more details very soon.

John Mariotti
www.crossfitodyssey@gmail.com
www.sunday-stories.blogspot.com
775-338-2412

Sunday Story…More pie

Some of us live in a finite world, a zero sum game. If I win, you lose. If you get more, I get less. There are only so many pieces of the pie and the winner is the one who has the most pieces at the end. This is a great model for determining who wins the championship. There’s only 1 trophy, 1 title and whoever wins it, wins it. 1 winner and everyone else isn’t the winner.

This mindset doesn’t necessarily work in the rest of the world. It’s fine for an athletic competition but, really, to get truly big things done I need cooperation. I need people who can build a bigger pie or make more pies. If the pie is bigger we can all get more pie. This is a simple concept…a bigger pie equals more for everyone.

What if I concentrated on making a bigger pie instead of trying to make sure I got the piece I thought I deserved? What if I gave up on getting what’s mine and made sure everyone got theirs? How much bigger could I make things? How much more abundant would my life appear if I took the view that there was always going to be enough?

Some things are finite. There will only be one Super Bowl winner this year. Ideas are infinite. Hoarding them won’t create more but giving them away might make room for more.

A candle is not diminished when it lights another candle. Abundance is a mindset as much as it is a reality. Make a bigger pie, get more pieces.

John Mariotti
www.crossfitodyssey.com
www.sunday-stories.blogspot.com
775-338-2412