Something Cool Happened to Me in Fall 2010
So for those of you who see me regularly at Robert Belley Fitness in Marshfield, you all know something really cool happened to me in the fall of 2010.
Nothing outrageous worldly speaking but definitely a pick-me-up and actualization personally.
I’ve reached a whole NEW level of fitness.
In short, I owe a lot of it to some tough and consistent training the last 2 years: talking double and triple session afternoon and evenings some weeks in a row.
I’d have to thank the start of all this with climbs up Mount Washington in New Hampshire, Running a couple Marathons (Boston 2009, Cape Cod 2010) and experiencing a couple of Death Races (2009, 2010) in Vermont’s Green Mountains with someone much much fitter than myself: Captain Michael Signori.
In between these challenges, I trained like crazy some weeks. Performing my own hellish workout then doing a couple extra for laughs and extra burn. Even training alongside training family clients to test their and my own fitness level.
The greatest part of all though, is that 2 years later, I’m in the best physical-endurance-strength-mental clarity shape of my life. Sure I’ve had some ups and downs with nutrition. And had some terrible workouts in there. But I never stopped driving forward or pushing.
At the studio last night, while Katie O’Hara Shannahan was performing 30 minutes on the AirDyne, and I was practicing my Jump Shot, we spoke about drive and determination.
I don’t believe you can teach those two characteristics, but you can learn something about them.
(1) It comes from within
(2) Behaving consistently encourages drive-like behavior for those who lack internal drive
Tom Brady was Katie and I’s example. To watch Tom Brady quarterback is brilliant. He is relentless. In much the same way Michael Jordan was with basketball. If he throws a bad pass or the play doesn’t work out he jumps right into the next play without hesitation or fear of throwing another bad bullet. Much the way Jordan wouldn’t stop shooting if he was having an off
night. Complete consistency is the key to the next level.
Accepting that you will fail, and will just have to work immediatly through it is HUGE for creating the best result.
I’ve had some terrible workouts in the last couple years, and by terrible I am reffering to low-energy, poor lifts and feeling as if I were stuck in quicksand.
>>> BUT YOU JUST KEEP DRIVING FORWARD >>>
Nothing should get in the way of the outcome.
It may be sloppy sometimes, but by sticking at it CONSISTENTLY, you will achieve the very thing you WANT most.
I promise.
Live a little dream dreamers 😉
Rob Belley
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Death Race, Metro Dash Playlist – Music – Belley
One question I’m asked religiously is what kind of music I listen to while training.
And to be honest, I’m sort of crazy and sort of sweet.
Sometimes I listen to Tori Amos, God Is An Astronaut, Christina Aguilera, B.O.B., and Rihanna. I know, where’s my fanny pack right?
Other times I find the hate (thank you Michael Signori) and listen to Mudvayne, Linkin Park, Korn, Diecast, Chevelle, Deftones, Sevendust, Jay-Z, Eminem… etc.
And sometimes it’s happy like Aerosmith (can’t wait for Saturday’s show at Fenway), Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Boston, and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Artists that also fit into my list are A Perfect Circle, Incubus, TOOL, Stone Temple Pilots, Dredg, 30 Seconds To Mars, 10 Years, Stone Sour, Timbaland, Slipknot, Justin Timberlake (like how I snuck that in at the end?), Nine Inch Nails and Anberlin.
Really anything goes.
But I find the upbeat absolutely drives me a little faster and awakens my better potential.
Here’s the playlist I created for my recent Metro Dash event in August.
Artist: Song
Deftones: Beauty School
Deftones: Risk
B.O.B: Airplanes
Eminem: Love The Way You Lie
Korn: Right Now
Mudvayne: Dull Boy
Korn: Here To Stay
Jay-Z: On To The Next One
Linkin Park: Faint
Chevelle: Midnight To Midnight
Chevelle: The Fad
Sevendust: Driven
Mudvayne: Not Falling
Five Finger Death Punch: Bulletproof
30 Seconds To Mars: Attack
Korn: Got The Life
Linkin Park: Qwerty (live)
Chevelle: This Circus
Jay-Z/Linkin Park: Points Of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer
Linkin Park: Bleed It Out
Linkin Park: Given Up
Chevelle: Brainiac
Mudvayne: Happy?
Mudvayne: Fish Out Of Water
10 Years: Actions & Motives
Of Course I didn’t listen to all of them as I tracked forward for moments when I needed to pick up the pace. So placing extra songs on the playlist helps significantly. In total I reserved 54 songs for that list.
Now for DEATH RACE, in June, I had a bit different of a list.
While hiking, pacing the steps, letting the hips settle into position, staying at a moving, yet comfortable pace it looked like this:
PLAYLIST: Snowboard Mix/Paisley Summer
John Lennon: Imagine
Chevelle: Shameful Metaphors
30 Seconds To Mars: Night Of The Hunter
Three Days Grace: Bitter Taste
The Raveonettes: Ode To L.A.
Dredg: Saviour
Camera Obscura: The Sweetest Thing
Before Their Eyes: Hope In Devotion
Before Their Eyes: Shotguns Speak Louder Than Words
Chevelle: The Fad
Camera Obscura: Honey In The Sun
Cheap Trick: Surrender
The Raveonettes: Love In A Trashcan
Linkin Park: Somewhere I Belong
Nancy Wilson: Elevator Beat
Spoon: The Underdog
Dredg: Drunk Slide
Camera Obscura: French Navy
Radiohead: Everything In Its Right Place
Dredg: Stamp Of Origin-Pessimistic
Sigur Ros: Svefn-G-Englar
The Beatles: Revolution
Mutemath: Spotlight
God Is An Astronaut: Lost Kingdom
Train: You Already Know
Stone Temple Pilots: Cinnamon
Howie Day: So Stung
Something Corporate: As You Sleep
Anna Nalick: Breaking The Girl
Jimmy Eat World: Sweetness?
Stone Temple Pilots: Take A Load Off
**For getting medieval while decimating ridiculously solid logs with an 8lb maul…**
PLAYLIST: HATE – REBIRTH
Mudvayne: Solve Et Coagula
Mudvayne: Dull Boy
Three Days Grace: Bitter Taste
Evans Blue: A Cross And A Girl Named Blessed
All That Remains: Two Weeks
30 Seconds To Mars: Attack
Korn: Blame
Linkin Park: Given Up
10 Years: Actions & Motives
Sevendust: Enemy
Five Finger Death Punch: Bulletproof
Mudvayne: Burn The Bridge
Sick Puppies: You’re Going Down
Mudvayne: Not Falling
Stone Sour: Get Inside
TOOL: Vicarious
So as you can see, you should pick your playlist based upon the energy you need to elicit. Myself, I try to preplan peaks and lows during a workout. High intensity followed by low intensity when needed assuming active recovery.
If you have a sick playlist, let me know some of the songs I should add to my own.
I’d love suggestions.
Live the dream,
Rob Belley
Metro Dash and Death Race are two events I highly suggest you check out 🙂
Metro Dash Boston 2010
So about two weeks ago I received an email from Sean, the Director of Metro Dash. He asked if I would be interested in entering his race.
Now being in my fortunate position I get alot of these from different race directors and event holders. Between fundraisers, charity runs, fitness product suppliers, and so on and so forth. So every time I’m a bit skeptical of an event legitimacy.
But after checking Metro Dash out I decided I will be entering the 2010 Boston event on August 7th in South Boston.
Below is a picture of the flyer.
It should be a 10k (6.2 miles) with interval workouts intermixed at scattered physical challenge points. And fancies something rather cool called The Gauntlet: an extreme urban obstacle course.
I’m actually pretty excited about this race. Not as much as I was for Death Race but still ambitious.
This is the email I received from Sean:
Hi Rob,
I am the race director for Metro Dash which is an insane 10k urban obstacle course. Metro Dash will be crushing souls in Boston on 8/7/10. The event was specifically designed for CrossFit, boot camp, and other similar style functional training gyms. Metro Dash is the ultimate test of athleticism. Competitors run city streets in search of scattered physical challenge points, power through intense interval workouts, and conquer “The Gauntlet,” our extreme urban obstacle course. I have no doubt that your clients would be very interested in this event. Registration is currently open and is capped at 200 athletes. We also give competitors the option to fundraise for the Navy SEAL Warrior Fund in exchange for a discounted registration.
Please check out www.metrodash.com for more information about the event as well as specific information for Boston. I have also attached a flyer to this email if you would like to print it out and share it with your gym clients. We offer a great race and rely on word of mouth marketing to get the word out about Metro Dash, so any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
If you have any questions please feel free to email me.
Cheers,
Sean
That being said I’m entering.
If I like it you’ll know about it and so will my Marshfield fitness studio clients at Robert Belley Fitness.
I’ll keep you posted to my experience 😉
Till then, stay cool, and stay dry,
And live the dream.
Rob
Death Race
June 2009… Decided to enter Death Race 2010.
Fall 2009 – Spring 2010… Trained with Purpose. Ridiculous Purpose
June 25, 2010… Created a nutrition strategy to work brilliantly on June 26, 2010 (Death Race day)
June 25, 2010… Death Race coordinators threw us a surprise event. 9 hours early.
June 25-26, 2010… I reached a level of dehydration so severe it took me until 2 days ago to finally recover (15 days).
June 26, 2010… After numerous attempts to quit due to severity of dehydration my alpha Mike Signori wouldn’t let me quit.
June 26, 2010… After 25 hours and 34 minutes of the coolest mayhem I’ve encountered to date I officially reached my “time of death” at 8:34 p.m. on Saturday night.
June 27, 2010… I decide to enter Death Race 2011. This time understanding they may make us start earlier thus my nutritional strategy will reflect a practical approach.
Conclusion:
My nutritional strategy completely backfired, thus resulting in a dehydration issue which led to a failed finish. But a remarkable experience.
Summer 2010… Training with a greater purpose 😉
Link to short video of this years race…
http://www.vimeo.com/13142263
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