Blueprint Education and The Barbell Saves Project are proof that when education and students meet movement and life-changing purpose with adults who care, incredible things happen! Crossfit Discovery It began in early 2021, when Blueprint Education CEO Mark French decided he needed a fresh way to boost his physical strength and improve his cardio fitness. … Read more
Performance One of the most important features of sports performance is maximal muscular power. Muscular power isn’t just bounding at maximum speed, or throwing something with maximum velocity. It also includes the strength to decelerate the body against gravity, or mass coming toward the body. Injuries don’t happen from the pushing of something, but from … Read more
Calling All Online High School Arizona Students – “Look where you want to go, not where you don’t want to go.” It’s a lesson I learned the hard way on a mountain bike ride several years ago. Staunchly independent, raised with a zero-tolerance level for making mistakes, crashing into boulders and onto the ground rendered … Read more
The problem with the last day of online high school The problem with the last day of online high school is, a month before it happens we enter this anxiety-ridden state like it’s the last day of everything we’ve ever known. The last day of school anxiety causes us to forget the whole reason we … Read more
“Set a Goal so high you can’t achieve it until you become the person who can.” If you have ever set a goal so high you can’t achieve it, and then worked for it day after day, day after day, day after day, you know it’s not about the Goal. It may seem monotonous and … Read more
Asking questions. It’s my new obsession. Asking questions. It’s my new obsession. Every day I crave its rhetorical fix. When I ask a question, answers start to seep through my head, causing a steady dopamine drip. Some people say dopamine (the reward hormone) is literally like a drug, so I guess I’m like a question … Read more
There’s this phenomenon you might have heard of… There’s this phenomenon you might have heard of where when you want something, instead of asking for it, you flip it around, and you give something to someone else, and by some strange miracle you end up being the beneficiary. People call it God’s Reverse Economy or … Read more
Aligning your work or online high school view with your life view frees you to do whatever, and be motivated and proud of your decisions — even if it’s not exactly what you’re passionate about right now.