June 2012
13 posts
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Losing Friends to CrossFit
“I’ve lost more friends to CrossFit.”
A woman said this to me on the trail the other day, like CrossFit was a disease that took people when they were far too young. Except she didn’t mean it that way, in the finality of the moment. But there was a sadness in her voice, a melancholy ache like she was missing something she had never seen, and maybe didn’t even really...
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Fighting Your Way Back
Being injured sucks. Not going to mollify, codify, or swathe that fact in a bunch of cuddly, make-you-feel-better words. Being injured bites it BIG time. And the longer you CrossFit (the longer you do anything) the more likely it is that you will injure yourself at some point. It’s not CrossFit’s fault. It’s not your fault. It’s just life. Shit happens. Our bodies...
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Shhhh ...
Dear Coaches,
Shhhhhh.
Stop talking so much.
We know you know a lot, but we’re not sure you need thousands of words. Maybe a couple hundred. A few cues. And a touch of the bodyparts we can adjust to fix this movement.
See, we know you think you’re helping when you talk more and explain everything fully and thoroughly, and sometimes you are (and we love that) … but sometimes...
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Overdosing on HTFU
Much of the world is too timid. Some of the world is too aggressive. Somewhere, there’s a place where we get these things right.
See, I don’t want to “harden the fuck up” or “man up” or “(wo)man up.” I’m already as tough as I want to be. I already know my heart, my soul, my worth. It was never something I could have put into words anyhow.
I...
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NMSR
No more shit reps.
You know what I’m talking about: the garbage movement that you sometimes do warming up, or when you’re close to the end of the WOD, or when you’re really tired and your attention wanders.
The mediocre and worse stuff. The stuff you do to just “get ‘er done” and be closer to finished. The stuff you do because you just “don’t have...
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More Barbell
More barbell, less drama.
More cheering, less silence.
More warm-up, less wandering around like you’re warming up.
More coaching, less yapping.
More focus, less allowing yourself to be distracted.
More full-assed, less half-assed.
More good choices, less settling.
More doing, less complaining.
More achievement, less excuse-making.
More grip, less chalk.
More sacrifice, less ego.
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Begin Again
So your lift sucks.
Begin again.
So your heart is down.
Begin again.
Your job, your romance, your relationships, your bank account, and everything that you think is your life may have just fallen to total and irrevocable shit … but you know what? It’s not really your life. Your life is your heart beating and your lungs filling with air and your brain overflowing with a million...
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Doer? Or Excuse-Maker?
In this life, there are Doers. People who get things done, no matter what. Folks who come through time and time again. They simply provide results.
You know who they are. They know who they are. If you had a magic machine and could go back to their kindergarten years, you could pick some of them out of the class right away because who they are is who they have been all of their lives. People who...
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Don't Wait
Don’t wait. Do it now. Action is the only way that life is going to get better.
Don’t wait to start something new.
Don’t wait to quit something bad.
Don’t wait to be chosen. Stand out now. Stop thinking that being polite and being a “good girl” is going to earn you accolades. It won’t. No one is silently watching and waiting to reward you. If you want...
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Smile and Wave
Newsflash: Some people are miserable fools. Regardless of how well you craft your life, you’re going to meet some of them. If you stand up for anything in your life, you’re going to meet even more of them. And if you ever venture onto the internet? Well, you’ve met them already. So, what to do when you encounter these delightful pieces of … humanity?
You can try to have...
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Calm the Riot in Your Own Head
Want to reduce the stress in your everyday life? Want one change that will make a huge difference in how you feel every single day?
Stop reading/hearing “you” when someone says “I”. Stop reacting to everything like it’s a personal assault on you. Stop taking everything so personally.
Just stop.
When someone says “I” … believe them. Maybe they just...
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Use Your Fear
“Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.” — Paulo Coelho
Exactly. Sometimes someone uses words so clearly, that there is simply no other way to say it.
Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.
Most of us fear, and we stop. Halt. Hesitate. Wait. Fear is a natural reaction to situations in which we feel unsafe. It makes sense to stop and evaluate.
But sometimes, fear means we...
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Don't Save It for Later
Do you save it for later?
Is this your mindset? At least some of the time? In your workout, in your house, in your heart?
“I can’t go all out here, I got to save something for later.” “I can’t tell her how I feel. Got to save that for later.” “I should save these old fat pants. I might wear them again one day.”
Do you refrigerate food that you...
