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01-31-2011, 10:06 PM
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As we were eating breakfast Saturday morning; watching the sun rise over the Atlantic ocean; preparing to spend a full day in the gym with an obviously great group of people; I thought to myself, “This job doesn’t suck.” As always, Mike and Donna Manning took excellent care of us and the entire group at Harbor City CF in Melbourne. They run one of the “best CrossFit gyms in the nation” (Rip’s words.) Returning to a gym with good friends, excellent equipment and set up, and one of the coolest dogs on the planet is a treat for us. Thanks so much Donna and Mike, we look forward to seeing you in a few weeks in Texas at the Starting Strength Couples Camp and showin’ yall a little down home, north Texas hospitality.
Our first seminar of ’11 brought an unusually high group of folks recovering from injuries ranging from former supraspinatus and adductor attachment injuries; to a blown bicep tendon; to Anthony James (the actor from the movie Unforgiven. Not really but Derek looks so much like him that to call him anything other than Anthony would be weird.) We would need an entire post to discuss Anthony’s past injuries and short leg but in spite of it all, he’s an excellent lifter , hard worker, and an all around awesome guy. The point of this story; however; is that we had a gym full of people who choose not to let past health/tendon/muscle/etc. problems dictate that they just sit around and get weak. They train in an efficient way to gain strength to avoid more injuries or deal better with them if they do occur. It was quite cool. Thanks to everyone for their hard work; great attitudes; and continued support of Starting Strength.
It’s common for the coaches (okay, mainly me with the help of Stef) to give a nickname or two out during these weekends. This weekend, there were so many that I think the only person who was called by their real name was Rip. You’ve already met Anthony, along with Vanessa (who was really Rene’ but I struggled with that so she became Vanessa) from the home gym. Tall David and Short David were a lot of fun all weekend. Short David was 6’2 and a very good sport about being called short for the first time in his life. Jason was just referred to as either the butt guy or the naked guy depending on the story at the time (I’ll just let you wonder about those.) Not Atlanta Steve almost became Mini-David and I know I called Jason ‘Steve’ a few times during the deadlift platform so all in all, it was quite a challenge to actually figure out who we were talking aboot.
We had a few forum regulars which is ALWAYS fun to put names with faces. LimieJosh, Starbuck1851 (soon to be Columbus Steve or Not Steve from ATL. If I got a vote, I like ‘Not Steve from ATL’.) Keeptryn is also Tall David and almost got called Bill a few times by me (are you starting to see the absolute chaos that all these names almost caused??!)
In all, we kicked off the year with one of our best groups, at one of our favorite gyms owned by two of our favorite people who bring around one of our favorite dogs (Hi Bosco!) The wide variety of people with their wide variety of goals and interests made dinners a blast and long training days fly by.
We hope to see you all again some time. Keep an eye out for more Starting Strength seminars; Training Camps; and Events on our home page. If you were with us this weekend, send us some of your pictures or just say Hi. And as always, keep us posted on your progress!
JP
As we were eating breakfast Saturday morning; watching the sun rise over the Atlantic ocean; preparing to spend a full day in the gym with an obviously great group of people; I thought to myself, “This job doesn’t suck.” As always, Mike and Donna Manning took excellent care of us and the entire group at Harbor City CF in Melbourne. They run one of the “best CrossFit gyms in the nation” (Rip’s words.) Returning to a gym with good friends, excellent equipment and set up, and one of the coolest dogs on the planet is a treat for us. Thanks so much Donna and Mike, we look forward to seeing you in a few weeks in Texas at the Starting Strength Couples Camp and showin’ yall a little down home, north Texas hospitality.
Our first seminar of ’11 brought an unusually high group of folks recovering from injuries ranging from former supraspinatus and adductor attachment injuries; to a blown bicep tendon; to Anthony James (the actor from the movie Unforgiven. Not really but Derek looks so much like him that to call him anything other than Anthony would be weird.) We would need an entire post to discuss Anthony’s past injuries and short leg but in spite of it all, he’s an excellent lifter , hard worker, and an all around awesome guy. The point of this story; however; is that we had a gym full of people who choose not to let past health/tendon/muscle/etc. problems dictate that they just sit around and get weak. They train in an efficient way to gain strength to avoid more injuries or deal better with them if they do occur. It was quite cool. Thanks to everyone for their hard work; great attitudes; and continued support of Starting Strength.
It’s common for the coaches (okay, mainly me with the help of Stef) to give a nickname or two out during these weekends. This weekend, there were so many that I think the only person who was called by their real name was Rip. You’ve already met Anthony, along with Vanessa (who was really Rene’ but I struggled with that so she became Vanessa) from the home gym. Tall David and Short David were a lot of fun all weekend. Short David was 6’2 and a very good sport about being called short for the first time in his life. Jason was just referred to as either the butt guy or the naked guy depending on the story at the time (I’ll just let you wonder about those.) Not Atlanta Steve almost became Mini-David and I know I called Jason ‘Steve’ a few times during the deadlift platform so all in all, it was quite a challenge to actually figure out who we were talking aboot.
We had a few forum regulars which is ALWAYS fun to put names with faces. LimieJosh, Starbuck1851 (soon to be Columbus Steve or Not Steve from ATL. If I got a vote, I like ‘Not Steve from ATL’.) Keeptryn is also Tall David and almost got called Bill a few times by me (are you starting to see the absolute chaos that all these names almost caused??!)
In all, we kicked off the year with one of our best groups, at one of our favorite gyms owned by two of our favorite people who bring around one of our favorite dogs (Hi Bosco!) The wide variety of people with their wide variety of goals and interests made dinners a blast and long training days fly by.
We hope to see you all again some time. Keep an eye out for more Starting Strength seminars; Training Camps; and Events on our home page. If you were with us this weekend, send us some of your pictures or just say Hi. And as always, keep us posted on your progress!
JP