American Ninja Warrior Tryouts (Season 4)

What can I say about this year’s tryouts?!  The course was definitely fun.  But the experience getting there was very exhausting.  The normal routine is to submit a video of yourself of why they should pick you to be on the show.  You can show your athleticism or a crazy character.  If they show interest, someone from the show will call you and go through a phone interview.  After that if they approve, another “booker” will call and give you the good news.  Two years ago, the process was very smooth.  You get a call and the next day you get an e-mail with the exact date and time you are scheduled to run through the obstacles.  Allowing about 2 to 3 months to train and prepare.  This year, the booker called 1 week prior to the run date.  And I didn’t even get our run time til 9:45pm the night before.  At least, I was scheduled to run through it at noon.  But poor Caroline and Jill, they found out they were scheduled at 7am!!  So the day of the course, John (expert friend in camera and film) and I went at 7am to support our two potential American Ninja Warriors.  Due to “course malfunction”, they weren’t even able to run through it til about 2pm.  Which postponed my time to come back the following morning at 6:45am.  Although Caroline blames her trainer for not being strong enough to pass the log grip obstacle, I believe she got ripped off for doing it while it wasn’t fully functioning.  It wasn’t as smooth as after they fixed it.  As for me, I fell on the cargo net.  My task was to jump on a trampoline and leap to grab a cargo net and climb over.  During practice, I was taught properly to maximize the trampoline.  However, when I got up there I felt the cargo net wasn’t as far as it looked so I just jumped without thinking of all the pointers.  Sure enough I didn’t clear the distance to the cargo net.  I’m glad I went through it but I will have to reconsider trying out again for future.  What’s next for me?  Maybe Fear factor? : )

Great job to Sally for dropping 80 lbs!!

Sally joined us 3 years ago.  She dropped 20 lbs before she started training with us and then dropped another 60 lbs.  Since then she’s done so many races including a full 26.2 miles marathon.  Way to go Sally!  Here’s a quick look at her before and after pic.

Group run is strong!!

I just want to congradulate everyone that has been participating in our group runs this year.  We have been tackling on Mission Peak, Los Gatos Creek Trail and Rancho San Antonio.  Everyone that has been coming out has improved so much already.  Most of them are seeking upcoming races, etc.  Awesome!  Awesome! Awesome!!

Keep it up!!

Living in the Moment (Article of our very own client Gerry)

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/jason-sobel/living-in-the-moment/

Sunnyvale Fitness BBQ / Pool Party

Join us for a nice summer get together.  We’ll be grilling and bonding.  Meet some new people from the gym.  See who else is getting beat up.

DATE: Aug 15th

TIME: 12:30pm

LOCATION: Avalon Apartments

call for further details …

Congrats to Ken and Liann!

Ken and Liann has been training with us this year and just recently got married last weekend.  We just want to wish them the best of luck and big congrats!!