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ACL Dust Bowl 2026. 🤧 Thankful to get to share experiences with my love. My forever dance partner. Love you Deedra Areva...
10/10/2026

ACL Dust Bowl 2026. 🤧 Thankful to get to share experiences with my love. My forever dance partner. Love you Deedra Arevalo

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10/09/2026

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Saved the most impressive before & after for that last slide! Frozen shoulder doesn’t go away by staying still. It melts...
10/08/2026

Saved the most impressive before & after for that last slide!

Frozen shoulder doesn’t go away by staying still. It melts away with movement. See what I did there. ;)

Shane’s been part of the CrossFit community for over a decade. 4 years ago, while chasing a 225 # bench press goal, he was unknowingly overtraining & sustained a slap tear. That eventually led to a frozen shoulder diagnosis.

He went to PT & it got better, but nowhere near where it used to be. Pressing overhead with a full lockout still wasn’t comfortable. Even something as simple as taking his shirt off meant bending over & working it off instead of standing tall & raising his arms overhead.

Here’s the thing most people get wrong about frozen shoulder: the instinct is to protect it, rest it, avoid what hurts. But that’s often what keeps it “frozen”. What actually helps is consistent, graded movement. Loading it in ways it can tolerate & slowly expanding what it can do.

Shane started with me in September & the man sticks to a plan!! He loves data, I love data, that’s why we make a great team! We track it, we adjust it, & he shows up & does the work!

The pictures say it all. So does the fact that he can stand tall & raise his arms overhead to take his shirt off now.

That’s not luck. That’s consistency.
Proud of you Shane! Shane Jaworski

Pain isn’t just about the ONE exercise that you think “did you in.” It’s about everything stacking on top of what your c...
10/05/2026

Pain isn’t just about the ONE exercise that you think “did you in.” It’s about everything stacking on top of what your current capacity is.

Functional diagnosis (how your body reacts to functional ranges of motion), sleep, diet, stress, anatomical differences…those are the blocks you need to manage. To make room for all the things you want to be able to do at work, at home & at the gym.
🤞🏻Are you accounting for the fact that you can’t lift your arms all the way overhead before you hop up on the pull up bar to knock out your 10 butterfly pull ups?
🤞🏻Are you making good decisions when you know that you only got 4 hours of sleep last night?
🤞🏻Are you coming back from a 2 week vacation & making smart weight & intensity choices at the gym?

If “no I pushed through” is your answer to those scenarios then I bet all those blocks stacked up will put you above your capacity line.

With all that being said…the fix isn’t always doing less. Sometimes it’s improving capacity. Sometimes it’s adjusting load somewhere else in the stack. That’s the actual work: finding where the load can come down or where capacity can go up, not just avoiding the thing that hurts.

Freedom without compromise. Live more, hurt less.

Pain isn’t just about the ONE exercise that you think “did you in.” It’s about everything stacking on top of what your c...
10/05/2026

Pain isn’t just about the ONE exercise that you think “did you in.” It’s about everything stacking on top of what your current capacity is.

Functional diagnosis, sleep, diet, stress, anatomical differences…those are the blocks you need to manage. To make room for all the things you want to be able to do at work, at home & at the gym.
🤞🏻Are you accounting for the fact that you can’t lift your arms all the way overhead before you hop up on the pull up bar to knock out your 10 butterfly pull ups?
🤞🏻Are you making good decisions when you know that you only got 4 hours of sleep last night?
🤞🏻Are you coming back from a 2 week vacation & making smart weight & intensity choices at the gym?

If “no I pushed through” is your answer to those scenarios then I bet all those blocks stacked up will put you above your capacity line.

With all that being said…the fix isn’t always doing less. Sometimes it’s improving capacity. Sometimes it’s adjusting load somewhere else in the stack. That’s the actual work: finding where the load can come down or where capacity can go up, not just avoiding the thing that hurts.

Freedom without compromise. Live more, hurt less.

“We are saving an endangered species.” . The active human. . That sentence sounds dramatic until you really sit with it ...
05/13/2026

“We are saving an endangered species.”
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The active human.
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That sentence sounds dramatic until you really sit with it for a second.
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Most people in the U.S. don’t even average 8,000 steps a day anymore.
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Not because they’re inherently lazy.
Because modern life has made movement optional.
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Groceries get delivered.
Entertainment gets delivered.
Validation gets delivered in 15 second clips.
I even saw a TMobile commercial the other day…
YOU CAN DOORDASH A PHONE! Stop the madness!
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You can spend an entire day inside without ever feeling sunlight on your face.
And somehow that’s become normal.
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We’ve become obsessed with convenience.
Quick fixes.
Fast results.
Immediate comfort.
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And slowly without realizing it we forgot what effort feels like.
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What patience feels like.
What building something over years feels like.
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People want the transformation without the process.
They stare at the finish line they created in their head…
and it feels so far away that they never even start.
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Or they stand at the start line staring into the unknown…
terrified of failing.
Terrified of looking stupid.
Terrified of finding out how much work it actually takes.
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But the truth is…
life happens in the space between those two points.
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That’s where confidence is built.
That’s where resilience is built.
That’s where health is built.
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Not at the start line.
Not at some imaginary finish line.
There is no finish line!
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There’s just the daily decision to keep moving.
To keep trying.
To keep choosing effort in a world designed to make you comfortable enough to stop.
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That’s the part that scares me the most.
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Not that people are incapable of hard things.
But that we’re slowly being taught to avoid them altogether.

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