the motivational quote below will be posted on all of racks and is a great summary of our focus this summer and ties into the rope exercises we will be using
HOLD THE ROPE!
Every year a professional football team wins the championship. Every
year a college football team wins the NCAA title. Every year the best
high school team in Division A on down wins the state crown. All these
teams have one thing in common. No matter how tough it became throughout
their season, they did one thing -- they held the rope!
What is "holding the rope?" Imagine that you are hanging from the edge
of a cliff with a drop of twenty thousand feet. The only thing between
you and an fall to your death is a rope, with the person of your choice
on the other end. Who do you know that has the guts to pull you to
safety? Who will hold the rope? Who do you know that is going to let
that rope burn their hand and not let go? How many people that you know
are going to withstand the burning pain and watch the blood drip from
their hands for you?
If you can name two people, that's not good enough, because those two
people might not be around. The next time your team is together, look
around and ask yourself, "Who could I trust to hold the rope? Who is
going to let their hands bleed for me?" When you can look at every
member on your team and say to yourself that they all would hold the
rope, you are destined to win a lot of ball games. You see, the team
that holds the rope when the going gets tough are winners. When you are
down by four points with thirty seconds to go, don't give up. Yell at
your teammates to "hold the rope -- let it burn but don't let go!"
Every year there are winners and losers in all sports. Every year the
winners hold the rope. You don't have to have the best team on the field
to win the game. If you play with poise and do what your coaches ask of
you, and most of all -- hold the rope -- you will be successful. No
matter what sport you play, in order to win, you have to have a
commitment to your team. If you are supposed to run four times per
week, do it. If you have to lift weights four times per week, don't
miss. Once you start letting up at practice or start missing your
workouts, you've killed the team because you didn't hold the rope!
Don't let your team down! You've got to hold the rope!
Every year a professional football team wins the championship. Every
year a college football team wins the NCAA title. Every year the best
high school team in Division A on down wins the state crown. All these
teams have one thing in common. No matter how tough it became throughout
their season, they did one thing -- they held the rope!
What is "holding the rope?" Imagine that you are hanging from the edge
of a cliff with a drop of twenty thousand feet. The only thing between
you and an fall to your death is a rope, with the person of your choice
on the other end. Who do you know that has the guts to pull you to
safety? Who will hold the rope? Who do you know that is going to let
that rope burn their hand and not let go? How many people that you know
are going to withstand the burning pain and watch the blood drip from
their hands for you?
If you can name two people, that's not good enough, because those two
people might not be around. The next time your team is together, look
around and ask yourself, "Who could I trust to hold the rope? Who is
going to let their hands bleed for me?" When you can look at every
member on your team and say to yourself that they all would hold the
rope, you are destined to win a lot of ball games. You see, the team
that holds the rope when the going gets tough are winners. When you are
down by four points with thirty seconds to go, don't give up. Yell at
your teammates to "hold the rope -- let it burn but don't let go!"
Every year there are winners and losers in all sports. Every year the
winners hold the rope. You don't have to have the best team on the field
to win the game. If you play with poise and do what your coaches ask of
you, and most of all -- hold the rope -- you will be successful. No
matter what sport you play, in order to win, you have to have a
commitment to your team. If you are supposed to run four times per
week, do it. If you have to lift weights four times per week, don't
miss. Once you start letting up at practice or start missing your
workouts, you've killed the team because you didn't hold the rope!
Don't let your team down! You've got to hold the rope!
We got 8 of the 40 foot 1.5 inch from Art of Strength link above
http://www.flexcart.com/members/elitefts/default.asp?cid=114&m=PD&pid=4168
We also got 6 pairs of rack ropes from Elite Fitness - link above
Some of the exercises we will use include:
1.) Standing band rope pulls (clip in earlier blog post shows)
2.) Rope Ab Fallouts
3.) Rope Tricep Extensions
4.) Rope Standing Bicep Curls
5.) Lying Down Rope Pull ups
6.) Rope chins ups
7.) Rope sled pulls
8.) Battle Rope movements
9.) Seated rope climbs
10.) Competition Rope Holds
11.) Tug of War
Our summer training starts next Monday, hope to have some video footage and updates soon
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