What?
Increased Work Capacity Across Broad Time and Modal Domains
Getting stronger or better by doing lots of different things for a long time.
We live in a world where people flip houses, trade in cars, and divorce at alarmingly high rates. People would rather find weight loss in a pill or through a surgical procedure than by moving their body and actually getting healthy. Thin isn't necessarily healthy. Healthy is healthy. Thin is typically better than "not thin" but how you get there certainly matters.
Our society doesn't so much have an aversion to hard work as we have an aversion to anything that requires patience and an investment of our time. Crossfit is countercultural. It requires us to eat healthy and shop better. It requires us to work hard, even if only for a few minutes at at time. It forces us to do things we aren't good at. It teaches us that hard work and persistence are not only things that can yield desirable results, but they are the only things that can help us to achieve optimal results.
Whether it is fitness, relationships, work or politics the only way to achieve transformational change is to continue to do the right things, the right way, for a long time. Today is just one day. The choice is just one choice. What choice are you going to make?
Do you want to be stronger, smarter, faster? Do you want to be better at your job? A better parent? A better spouse? A better friend? Do you want to learn a foreign language? Do you want to learn to sew, surf or ski? There is only one way to get there. Work hard at it and do it every day.
We can all be the person we have always wanted to be. We just need to stop waiting for "someday" and realize that we can start taking steps toward being the person we want to be on this day. No more procrastinating. No more waiting for the right time. What can you do today that helps you move closer to your goals?
3 Rounds for Time
Run 400 meters
25 Pushups
10 Deadlifts
Bodyweight WOD
3 Rounds for Time
Run 400 meters
25 Pushups
30 Lunges (15 per side)
Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012
ReplyDeleteOf all the days you decide to get WAY motivated! Stephanie and I decided to do yoga. Our quads were still sore. Unbelievable.
Your post reminded me very much of a foreword to a CrossFit book! Very articulate, G.
Thursday, 26 Ja 2012--REST DAY
Friday, 27 Jan 2012
L: 4 RFT (22:04) S: 3 RFT (19:00)
400 m run: L: 3 mins on elliptical; S: 3 mins on bike--we are experiencing a shortage of treadmills
25 pushups
10 deadlifts: 65#
I decided to go for (4) RFT because I inadvertently did (4) sets of deadlifts. (I am easily confused, apparently.) Good workout. Felt froggy.
Counterpoint...
ReplyDeleteJust had a 4 hour meeting with some paper manufacturers from Maine, and it raised two eyebrow lifting moments:
1. I really enjoy the company of my faimly in Tamworth, NH. These guys today had the downeaster accent, and made me want to go and visit faimly I haven't seen in years.
2. Hard work in America can go easily unnoticed when you meet what I would call the "real deal". These guys knew what the hell they were doing. I have a newfound appreciation for people that make paper in New England, as they are part of an age old profession that time seemed to forget. Hats off to paper makers, as its a toilsome process that few could ever understand.
Maybe its the fact that I love what I would call a time machine job. Its something that only appears to have gotten modern under a veil of computers and process engineers.