2013 PDN Training Tour: Update #11

All righ, just in case there's way too much wind noise in the first attempt to introduce this Personal Defense Network training tour update. This is a pretty cool place. This is a pretty special place to me. That road that you see right behind me is actually a place that was part of my daily commute for a number of years. The Valhalla training center is about 15 miles in that direction. Tellurides in this direction, that's where I'm heading and you'll see some footage cut the sound out behind this. And if I can't use the original one just because of the wind noise out here on the plateau you'll get to see some gorgeous mountains and gorgeous scenery, high grasslands. This is a kind of in between a high desert and the no tree line. And there's Aspen groves and all kinds of really cool stuff. One of the cool things about the Personal Defense Network training tours all the places I get to go, the things I get to do with the people I get to see, including some old friends. And that's what this one is really all about. One of the people that helped form a lot of those memories is one of the best teachers I know. His name's John Brown and as a formal, former Navy seal. And he left public service and came into the private sector and came to work with me at the Valhalla training center for a number of years. And we did a lot of great work, both with military training private sector training, team building and a lot of law enforcement training as well. Now he went on to be one of the leaders in the CrossFit community. He's got an incredibly successful gym, CrossFit Agoge. He and his wife travel the world teaching the CrossFit kids program on behalf of a CrossFit corporate. And I had the honor and privilege of hanging out with him for a little while and meeting some of his clients some of his team and some of his training partners. And I was invited to a deep water training session. I think the concept is incredibly cool. I was glad to have participated in it. Definitely got into some deep water while I was doing the, a team workout with them. And it's something that I'll try to incorporate in the future, not only in fitness, but probably in some other problem solving and leadership development things that I'll deal with as well. So this is a Personal Defense Network training toward bonus update from the own compadre plateau not too far from Montrose, Colorado on the way to Telluride, Colorado. And you're going to learn about the deep water training concept and get to look at me doing some work with us, some really great people in Montrose, Colorado who want to make themselves better. If you're interested in personal defense a defense of yourself or your others, your family, people you care about, people in your community. Maybe you're an armed professional get into deep water every once in a while in your training and in your practice make sure that you're pushing yourself and reaching. So we're here at CrossFit Agoge today and Rob's joining us for a little bit of a workout. The workout is based on a concept that I have sort of adapted from a gentleman by the name of John Anderson, who is a strongman competitor very high-level strongman competitor and known sort of throughout the strong man world was kind of a little bit of a psycho. And so the concept's called deep water training. And the goal is essentially with you and a solid group of group of training partners, push yourself to go into water so deep that you're not sure you'll be able to make the swim back to shore. And so we're talking about isn't necessarily just a physical depth. We know the physical depth is going to happen, but also we were talking about is the psychological aspect of pushing yourself farther than you think you're capable of going knowing that the human body is always capable of doing more. It, it really really helps to have training partners with regards to this. And so the, the concept is basically push yourself as hard and as far as you can go and then further. And from there rely on your training partners to sort of drag everybody back through and make it back through to the end. So well we're actually going to be doing is putting a yoke across our back. Yoke is a strong man implement the yoke all told today is going to weigh about 285 pounds. We're going to be starting Montrose, we're in Montrose Colorado. Montrose is right around 6,000 feet. So we're going to be starting at about 6,000 feet making about a 250 foot gain in elevation with the 285 pounds on our back all in about three quarters of a mile mile, general area. Once again, I'm not sure what this is going to feel like. I'm not sure that it's going to be too heavy. I'm not sure that it's going to go too fast or be too short. The goal is for us to do this in about an hour. As far as I'm aware, we're looking at about 250 feet of gaining elevation. As far as I'm aware, the yolk weighs about 300 pounds and almost the entire way is going to be straight up. You're here for your teammates, and to support your teammates, and you're here to work harder than you want to work. What we're going to do is step under the yoke. It's only like a quarter of a squat. So I'm here, like I said, butt is on, and I'm going to stand up. From here the biggest thing is to move smoothly because if you don't then the yolks are going to start swinging. So just move it smoothly. Three, two, one, go! Come on Danny! Make the turn Tyler get in there. Tyler, Sam, and Rob, then back to the top. Did he tell you that we talked though? Yes I think so. So, basically what happened is it took us 13 minutes to go from bottom to top and that basically isn't the premise of deep water. The premise of deep water is to go further and farther and harder than you want it to. And none of us is really breathing hard yet. Except for Rob. So time to go change of plans, make it harder, ready to go. All right, kid. Let's go Steven. There's no good reason to stop. And then you realize as you're going downhill. Everything that should be working, is working twice as hard as on the way up. With adding the stone weight, is that the stones aren't equally weighted. So now we're challenging balancing the stones on the plate, as well as putting a bigger demand on people's ability to stabilize midline. On top of that, we shorten up how many steps people are allowed to take. So hopefully shortening up the rest cycles that people get. So you get 20 steps, put it down, switch out, I don't know if, if it'll make it any faster, but it'll certainly make it a little bit harder for everybody else. Get up there. Nice job, Sam. So Connor, you're going to hand that to Tyler. As with everything that we're trying to accomplish. I start as the sort of headed idiot in the group. Start to look at the temperament of the group. And that right now is we're just in our experimental phases of the deep water project is what I use as a gauge. Usually when everybody kind of looks like they're done, starts complaining and moaning, then it's time to go a little bit further. So that happened on the way down when I made the last change added the extra rocks. And so I'm happy with that as far as pushing, but I still think next time we need a bigger work load. So next time it will be two yokes I need a rock. Connor. Wells you did? Steven. Steven. Yeah Woo! Two full down up or up down one of, an hour, 10 minutes, 20 seconds.