“Representin’ RainCross/Riveside!!!”

I Hope All Our RainCross Moms Had An Amazing Mom’s Day!!!

No Matter How You Celebrated… I Hope Your Day Was Filled With Love By Loved Ones…

Rewind To Saturday…

The Signature Ambush Competition…

Before I Get To Alexa… I Just Want To Say That This Event Was Amazing!!!

It Was Ran So Smooth & Professionally… And Just Like The Name Suggests… It Was An “Ambush” On The Competitors!!!

4 WODs Basically Back To Back To Back To Back…

***Sound Familiar RainCross?!?!***

During The Briefing… The Owner/Coach Explained How He Loved To Compete/Coach His Athletes Who Compete… But Hated How Freakin’ The Long Competition Day Is!!! Which I Totally Get…

As A Competitor… You Usually Have To Arrive At The Location Around 7AM Just To Check In… Your 1st WOD Might Not Be Until 8… 9… 10AM… WOD 2 Maybe An Hour Later… WOD 3 A Few Hours Later… Sometimes There’s A 4 WODs… Then You Have To Tally Up All The Scores… And Then… There Might Be An Unexpected Tie Breaker WOD… And Finally… The Awards Ceremony

***And… As A Coach… You SHOULD Be There All The Way From Check In Until Award Ceremonies…***

That Can Make For A LONG DAY!!!

Not This Competition…

These Guys Were On Point!!!

The Men/Women’s Scaled Division Went 1st For All 4 WODs…

They Started The Briefing On Time… Started The 1st Heat On Time… Reset For Each Heat/WOD Was Fast & On Point… Everything Was Running On Schedule… Until… The Very End… Where There Ended Up Being A Tie Breaker… And Even Then… They Had A Plan… A Quick 1 Min Max Wall Ball Shot WOD Between The 2 Competitors… And Then On To The Awards Ceremony For The Scaled Athletes…

BOOM… DONE SON!!!

Immediately After The Scaled Awards Ceremony… The Rx’d Division’s Equipment Was Already Set Up For WOD 1… And Then They Were Off!!!

I Was Very Impressed With This Format… But Mostly Very Impressed By All The Volunteers/Judges That Helped Out Signature Athletics Make All Of It Possible!!!

Thank You Daniel For Being Such A Great Host & You Know You’re More Than Welcome To Come Train @ RainCross Next Time You’re Down @ March Air Force Base!!!

***This Week… Business As Usual… EXCEPT… The 12:15PM Session On Wednesday… I Have To Be At An Appointment & Not Sure How Long It Will Last… I Don’t Want To Take Any Chances & Be Late… So For Now… It’s Cancelled… If Anything Changes… I’ll Let You Know ASAP!!! And The Normal 8:45AM Saturday Sweat Sesh Is Back!!!***

Onto Alexa…

Killed It & Took Home 1st Place!!!

I Knew Right Off The Bat… When We Were Warming Up For WOD 1… That She Was Going To Do Very Well… There Was Only 1 Event That Had Me A Little Worried… And That Was The Bench Press… Honestly… I Don’t Know Where She Placed On That Event… BUT… She Got A PR!!! 130# Bench Press… Hitting A PR Is Such An Amazing Feeling Period… Hitting A PR @ A Competition?!?! Such A Great Feeling!!!

She Went On To Kill The 1 Rep Max Clean… More On That…

The DB Lunge WOD… AKA… 5 Mins Of Lunging Through Hell… All I Gotta Say It Was Pretty Awesome When The Announcer Was Walking By Each Athlete’s Station Saying What Rep They Were On… And Alexa Was Always About 10-20 Ahead Of Them…

“We Got 56… 61… 57… 60… 49… 92!!!”

The 3 Min AMRAP She Smashed!!! Especially The Pull Ups…

And The Last WOD… The Row/DeadLift/Thruster…

It Went Exactly As I Thought It Would But Alexa Listened To Me…

I Know What She Is Capable Of… I Know Her Strengths & Weaknesses… I Know Where She Was Going To Pick Up Ground…

I Told Her That It Was The Last WOD… Everyone Is Going To Blow Their WOD On The Rower… Then Die… I Told Her To Just “Do You…”

Go @ YOUR Pace & Don’t Freak Out & Speed Up Just Because You See Other Athletes Get Off The Rower 1st… She Listened…

And Sure Enough… One By One… All The Ladies Who Got Off The Rower 1st… Started Dying On The DeadLifts… And Alexa Went Un-Broken And Caught Them All… By The Time She Changed Out Her BarBell Weight For The Thrusters… Took A Quick Breath… She Was Still The Only One Starting Her Thrusters…

She Smashed Every Single WOD…

And She Represented So Well For RainCross & For Riverside…

As Soon As She Started The 1 Rep Max Clean During WOD 1… ALL EYES WERE ON HER!!!

During The Warm Up… She Had No Clue What Was On Her BarBell… I Did… We Had Discussed Earlier That Week On What She Should Open Up With… Which Was 145lbs… But During Her Warm Up… She Was Power Cleaning… Cleaning & Front Squatting 155lbs For Reps… Then Onto 160lbs… Then Onto 165lbs… During The Warm Up…

Now… Here’s Where I Just Wanted To Show Her Off…

During The Briefing… Daniel Said That The “Clean” Could Be A “Power Clean” Or A “Squat Clean”… And I Heard A Big Sigh Of Relief From Other Competitors… I Don’t Know If They Just Didn’t Want To “Squat Clean” It Or What… But… I Turned To Alexa & Said… “You’re CLEANING That Shit!!!”

Why?!?! Because She’s Good @ It!!! Why Not Have Fun & Show Off A Little Bit?!?!

And She Did… She Didn’t Know It… But Everyone Had Their Phones/Cameras On Her As She Was Lifting… And After The Event… So Many People Came Up To Me Asking Where We’re From & Who She Is… “Riverside!?!? What The Hell Are You Guys Doin’ Down Here?!?!” LOL…

1st Place Or Not… You Represented RainCross To The Fullest…

But Most Importantly… You Represented For Yourself!!!

Proud Coach…

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ALRIGHT… HERE WE GO!!!

Strength/MetCon…

***Wall Ball Shots… Rx’d: M-20lbs To 10Ft./F-14lbs To 8Ft. UN-BROKEN Like A Piston!!! No Resting @ At All!!!***

***Bench Press… Based Off Of Your 5 Rep Max…***

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WOD 1…

For Time:

400 Meter Run…

50 Un-Broken Wall Ball Shots… With A Pump Run Penalty…

400 Meter Run… TIME!!!

WOD 2…

For Time:

10 Bench Press @ 60%