Hey teamRIPPED!!
Normally I call my Tuesday update the “Coach W Checking In!!”, but not this week! This week I’ve just got to share with you the most AMAZING weekend I have had in forever! So this is “Coach W’s SURPRISE!!”
I thought my weekend would consist of going to dinner with my wife and a couple we are friends with (Brian and Ashley Nopper — Brian is an Asylum Legend and in the upcoming Asylum infomercial, and we also happen to live within minutes of each other). We got to the restaurant and Brian says he ran into a couple friends and figured we could all eat together. I thought that was strange, as I wanted to visit with him and not some random friends of his. I thought, “Oh well, this will still be fun”.
As we walk to the back of the restaurant, I see a couple people through the window wearing teamRIPPED shirts and start to think, “Oh no, Brian put our waiters up to this. Our waiters are going to be wearing teamRIPPED shirts while serving us tonight. How embarrassing this will be!”. Then I walk through the doorway into the back room of the restaurant to realize it’s not a couple waiters. It’s TWENTY of our Asylum Legends, all wearing teamRIPPED shirts, there to surprise me! And I was SHOCKED!
These people came from as far west as California, as far east as New Hampshire, as far south as Houston, and as far north as Edmonton Alberta Canada — and everywhere in between!
I momentarily tried to think if it was my birthday?? — NO! Is there a beachbody meeting going on in the area?? — NO! So what in the heck are these people doing here?
That’s when the pieces started to fall into place. I was set up! My wife had me thinking I was going to do the Warrior Dash with her, but in reality I was going to do it with the teamRIPPED Asylum Legends! These folks had become such a tight knit group during our Asylum challenge back in May that they had been planning a way to get all of us together ever since the challenge ended! Over three months of secret planning with perfect execution! They even presented me with a custom made shadow box (thanks David Jeffries) decked out in Asylum trim with a teamRIPPED shirt including all of the Legends’ signatures on it (see it in the pic below). It’s now the focal point of my workout room! Talk about inspiration to Bring It and Dig Deep — I just have to look at that and I’ve got the extra energy I need to keep going! If you never saw our team Asylum Legends video and the individual videos of our Legends, click here to watch!
We had a total blast this weekend. My cheeks are still sore from smiling and laughing so hard over this past weekend. Even though we had all never met, you’d think we had been friends for life. We all did the Warrior Dash together, representing teamRIPPED with pride! In true teamRIPPED fashion — as if the mud run wasn’t enough for us — we then went and played some B-Ball for a few hours. Then we watched a UFC fight, visited and enjoyed each others’ company into the evening. Here’s just a small sample of the pics from our day =
Before the Warrior Dash:
After the Warrior Dash:
Basketball:
I was — and still am — overwhelmed at the spirit of TEAM that we have. It is such a blessing to know all of you (both those I have now met, as well as all of you that I still haven’t). How crazy it must have been for all of these Legends to tell their friends and family they were going to Tulsa Oklahoma to meet a bunch of people they met over the internet LOL! But you’d think we had been friends forever the way we all just hit it off and connected. It really serves as a defining moment in my coaching career. I got to see first hand the passion these people have, and see how they are doing for others the same thing I did for them. It’s AWESOME!
And I can’t wait until the next reunion! I also can’t wait until the next challenge and the unleashing of the teamRIPPED P90X2 Legends! The rest don’t stand a chance against us!!!
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Keep bringing it and inspiring others to do the same gang!!
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