The Crossroads Workout-Summer.2007

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When you go down to the Crossroads you may want to take your Mojo Hand. At the Crossroads, you can meet the Man at exactly midnight - Then He'll show you how to do what you dream of doing... For Musicians, well - you already know what they want, or what they wanted. Just listen to what they are singing about: Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton, Tracy Chapman, and Bone Thugs all have the Crossroads Blues...

In the folk magic of many cultures, the crossroads is a location "between the worlds" and, as such, a site where supernatural spirits can be contacted and paranormal events can take place. Symbolically, it can mean a locality where two realms touch and therefore represents liminality, a place literally "neither here nor there"...

Some professors refer to the crossroads as a turning point with an unpredictable outcome. In ancient literature some scripts have references to other dimensional worlds with their own crossroads. In these texts the crossroads seem to have four different endings, a golden age, nothing changed, apocalypse, and a bad event that varies with every different world.  This is particularly pronounced in conjure, rootwork, and hoodoo, a form of African American magical spirituality.  In conjure practice, it is said that in order to acquire facility at various manual and body skills...  (Source: Wikipedia)

"All athletes that work with me at any serious level go to the Crossroads--it is A REQUIREMENT of my program.  What is the modern day Crossroads to me?  A place where I push my athletes to the absolute limits of mental, physical, and spiritual strength...sometimes beyond where they "think" they were capable of going.  A place to find their spiritual strength where they can break through to the other side.  As an extreme test, I try to break my athletes here because I need to find out who is ready to go to the next level and who MUST go home.  When it's done right--we ALL move forward as a TEAM that has forged a new bond in extreme sweat and "Red Line' Fitness...the rest is history...after ten years of Crossroad  workouts, I've never left anyone behind--they all pulled up to the Crossroads and burned rubber to the other side.  They are never the same...they have been to the Crossroads and passed the Test."  --Coach RJ

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