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ATTENTION PARTICIPANTS IN THIS SATURDAY’S SPARTAN RACE….THE FOLLOWING IS A MESSAGE FROM ANNMARIE:  Kristen Tarantino and I are renting a 15 passenger van for the race this weekend. Tatyana Dorofeyeva has offered to drive. We have a few open spots if anyone is interested. If someone else is willing to drive we can get a second van. Price per person will determine how many people come but it shouldn’t be more than $25.

PLEASE CONTACT ANNMARIE OR KRISTEN IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR NEED MORE INFORMATION.  

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UPCOMING EVENTS:

Battle At The Coliseum

This one takes place on June 14th in the Nassau Coliseum during the Universal Fitness Expo.  It’s teams ONLY and the team has to consist of 2 guys and 2 gals!  The Expo looks good and it’s close to home!

WODFest In The Wild

This one takes place in August in Port Jervis, NY and it’s outdoors on 500 acres!  Don’t know much about this one, but it looks good and family friendly!  I used to go to Port Jervis to camp and canoe–it’s beautiful!

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Saturday May 10th at 1pm Jon B. will present the Muscle-Up Progression seminar!  Save the date.

THE MUSCLE-UP MAKER

THAT’S RIGHT!!!

A SEMINAR DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESSION OF A

MUSCLE UP

WHO IS THIS SEMINAR FOR?   EVERYONE

THIS TOPIC HAS BEEN TAILORED FROM SCRATCH TO FINISH, WHETHER YOU HAVE TROUBLE WITH A RING DIP OR JUST CAN’T TURN OVER AFTER YOU PULL UP.

REGARDLESS OF YOUR LEVEL, YOU WILL GET BETTER AFTER THIS SEMINAR!!

TOPICS COVERED

RING DIP MOBILITY

RING DIP PROGRESSION

RING DIP STRENGTHENING

PULL UP MOBILITY

PULL UP PROGRESSION

PULL UP STRENGTHENING

TRANSITION PROGRESSION

FULL MUSCLE UP PROGRESSION/VARIATIONS

SEMINAR IS OPEN TO ALL CROSSFITTERS LOOKING TO IMPROVE THEIR SKILLS.  COST IS $25/PERSON AND ATTENDANCE WILL BE LIMITED

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PSYCHOPATHS:  HOW YOU CAN SPOT ONE

“There are a few things we take for granted in social interactions with people. We presume that we see the world in roughly the same way, that we all know certain basic facts, that words mean the same things to you as they do to me. And we assume that we have pretty similar ideas of right and wrong.”—Tom Chivers, The Telegraph

[Note:    The above article was a good reminder that spotting a psychopath is a useful skill.  My first known contact with a psychopath was a fellow student in high school.  I knew he was a bit off, but when you’re 16 it’s difficult to discern who is strange and who is STRANGE.  The student in question, I’ll call him John because that’s his name, would act out in class and didn’t have anything important or nice to say.  I don’t remember him as a bully, but he behaved inappropriately.  He would mouth off to teachers.  He would instigate trouble.  He was loud and annoying most of the time and eerily quiet other times.  Sounds like a lot of high school boys, right? 

One Spring Friday night John was walking home from a neighborhood party and he just happened to cross paths with one of my friend’s 14 year old sister.  I have no idea what was said or even what exactly happened, but John raped then stabbed her multiple times killing this innocent, young girl.  My eyes were forever opened to the possibility of human cruelty and I gained a new awareness of the signs of a psychopath.

Next stop on the psychopath tour–New York City!  Between the ages of 19 and 22 I had “hung out” in Manhattan, but always had a good time and never ran into trouble.  In the late 80’s I joined the New York City Police Department.  Patrolling the streets of New York was quite different then just hanging out there.  Especially if “there” happened to be in the North part of Brooklyn.  (Lisa grew up there, but that’s a whole other story!)  This is where I met Rob (his real name).  I would see Rob often.  Always in a good mood.  Always smiling and laughing.  A hard worker.  I had a chance to meet some of Rob’s friends.  His friends didn’t seem like good people, but, Rob grew up in the Bed Stuy section of Brooklyn and the people were tough.  I cut Rob slack on his choice of friends because he was a good guy.  

One morning I got to work and discovered Rob had been arrested for committing a liquor store robbery, killing the owner and shooting an employee.  The news made my head spin.  You see, Rob wasn’t just some guy.  Rob was a police officer from my precinct.

Upon hearing the news my father called me and asked me about this cop from my precinct.  “You worked with this guy and you had no idea what type of guy he was?  How can that be?” 

My father was truly upset.  I told him what I tell people to this day if the subject comes up.  We were in different squads, but our squads worked together enough.  Rob was genuinely a nice, funny guy who responded if you called for help and he did his job.  There was nothing about his personality that would suggest he was a psycho.  Not that I noticed at the time.  At the time my psycho-awareness skills weren’t honed enough to detect the psycho trait in a police officer.

As the above article states, not all psychos are violent criminals.  I have gone on to meet some psychos who were not violent or just mildly violent.  Some were friends who are now ex-friends. 

If nothing else, the ability to recognize a psycho may keep your children out of harms way.  Lisa and I were able to “spot” children psychos who befriended our children.  Fortunately, our children trusted our instinct and began honing their own at a young age.

Best advice:  When you find yourself in a situation and you get a bad feeling, remove yourself from the place or from the person’s company.  There’s a reason you’re getting that feeling.  You don’t have to have all the facts.  You don’t have to rationalize why you think you’re getting the bad feeling.  And you certainly shouldn’t ignore it.  Back out.  Leave. Now.  It could be while trying to buy a car, hunting for a home, whatever.  it doesn’t have to be a potentially violent encounter.  It may just be a “bad deal” for you.  Trust your instinct.  Your instinct can “see through” a smile, charm, and the “nice guy” front.  It’s your rational, conscious mind that is easily fooled.]—George

Workout of the Day
Snatch
Find your 1 rep max.

7 rounds for time of:
5 ring dips
5 inverted rows (use rings with feet on floor/most women will have to do Ring Rows)
10 Russian kettlebell swings

Post your scores to the Whiteboard.

(Note: Ring Rows are like an inverted row with less angle)