Yancy Camp Workout 552

Parents, today we’re talking about raising productive kids. I recently helped a family with strategies to improve their kids behavior. They are in a situation where the kids are pretty much running the house and the parents are adapting to their wants, emotions, and tantrums. The mom asked me, “what are things we can do to try and get a handle on this. I’m not going to go in to great detail but here are a few of the bullet points we discussed. I consider every one of these extremely important.
1) If there are two parents in the house, they both needs to be 100% onboard with supporting each other as they communicate with the children.
2) Parents needs to be consistent with calling their kids on their bullshit.
3) Don’t coddle, appease, or ignore bad behavior.
4) Parents need to have meaningful conversations with their kids. Don’t just drop the hammer and hand out consequences and groundings. Communicate/Coach/Teach!
5) When starting the day, on the way to someone’s house, headed to school, or in route to various other places, it’s important to talk about what an awesome day looks like and things they can do once we arrive to show gratitude and respect to people and the power and pleasantries that come from an epic day.
When they get outside the guardrails, the pause button needs to be hit, and the parents need to separate them from the situation. Take them to another room or outside and have a conversation with them about their actions. Kids need to understand that it’s very disrespectful when you’re at someone’s home, out to dinner, at a party, or at your own home and they throw fits, whine, complain, etc. When kids act like an ass and they are coddled, appeased, or it’s ignored, we’re setting them up for failure down the road. It’s as simple as that. We have to make ourselves uncomfortable sometimes to make meaningful change. Lily and Scout know that if they are out of line and struggle with getting things corrected, they run a serious risk of consequences. We’ve left restaurants and pulled right out of movie theater parking lots and gone home before because they were out of line and couldn’t pull it together. At home, at a party, or at someone else’s home, they know there’s a spot somewhere that dad or mom will be talking to them if they get out of line and can’t make it right quickly. Of course this is tough on my wife and I as well, but here’s the deal, we’re knee deep in the most important job of our lives. Raising children is such a wonderful experience while also being extremely important for helping build a strong foundation for them to stand on when they leave the house. Be graciously direct with your kids. The big challenging real world isn’t going to coddle and appease them. Help them learn the value of respecting and serving others, working through their issues with good communication skills vs throwing fits, and help them learn to respect being called out on their bullshit.

We lift our kids up in a big way and let them know how much we value their opinion and their leadership skills. We have a contract in the house and one of the bullet points says that everyone will always get a say in the matter and everyone’s talking points will be respected. I don’t believe in authoritarian type parenting. I want our kids to feel respected and looked upon for assistance and guidance around the house. Kids are capable of much more than they are allowed often times. Lift them up by challenging them to be rockstars. They also understand that we expect big things from them and one of the key expectations is for them to respect others and situations. If they see things that are wrong with people or situations, we work with them on how to make change. Parents, we’re in the business of raising awesome young adults and then they move on. Let’s build life champions who want to dominate the day with excellence. Ask not what your parents, educators, coaches, co-workers, job, community, school, town, state, country, and planet can do for you, but what you can do for your parents, educators, coaches, co-workers, job, community, school, town, state, country, and planet. Much love – Yancy

Phase 1:
Run x 800m (track, road, or treadmill) at zone 3 aerobic effort.
Heavy farmer’s walk x 200m
Thrusters x 20 (using one of the farmer’s carry weights)
*If using a 400m track, you’ll leave the carry weights where you finish each set of carry/thrusters and this is where you’ll start your next run.
This completes 1 round.
Continue repeating for a total of 5 rounds.
*You will have completed 2.5 miles/4000m of running,  1000m of farmer’s carry, and 80 thruster reps.
*Recommended weights – men 50lb in each hand & women 35lb in each hand
*Drop weight as necessary but the goal is to get to the point where you can complete these type of farmer’s carry workouts unbroken.

Phase 2:
Tire drag or 15% incline on the treadmill x 20min at zone 3 aerobic effort.
*If possible, I want you moving immediately in to phase 2 with zero rest.

Phase 3:
Row x 500m at zone 4 above lactate threshold effort
Burpees x 10
Elbow plank w/side to side hip roll x 30 (15 each side)
This completes 1 round.
Continue repeating for a total of 4 rounds.
*If you don’t have access to a rower, you can replace with any other piece of cardio equipment and go for 2min.