I saw this quote today and decided, after way too long of an absence, to post what's on my mind. The words in this quote are SCREAMING at me and have validated what I've been thinking about over the last two weeks. It's time to step it up.
A few weeks ago we were in the box at noon and DUs were on the board, one of our athletes was quickly trying to figure out how many singles would be the modification as DUs were something that she couldn't even imagine doing 30 of. It brought me back to the first time I decided that modifying with singles just wasn't an option anymore. I had been a member of ShopGym for some time and I knew it was time to take that ugly, uncomfortable, hard step and rock them out. I also knew that in order to do this I would have to kick that little voice in my head straight in the ass and say "I WILL do this because I CAN do this so shut the hell up!" One more thing I knew was that my coach would probably have to lock up with me still working on round 1 of a 12 min AMRAP and I had to be okay with that. Truly okay with that. I had to promise myself that this wasn't going to send me into a spiraling downhill self worth UFC fight, me versus moi!
Perhaps it's these steps in my ShopGym journey that make me hate timed based W O Ds or A M R A Ps because to me at this point in my head, time means nothing. There I said it. No offense to those that are more advanced with the movements and such, right now I'm talking about myself only, so chase the clock like nobody's business my friends and I'll be the first to cheer you on. My point is that sometimes we get in a zone where we are just moderately uncomfortable and we don't want to push harder. True story peeps! I'm guilty of this on quite a few levels in the box. I want to be able to do all the moves 'unmodified'. I want to someday RX the W O Ds but I have to realize that this does not come over night nor does it come with me being okay to just stay in my moderately uncomfortable place. One needs to push themselves beyond their comfort zones to see, feel, reap the success that lies beyond.
My challenge for every one of my ShopGym family members is to CHALLENGE yourself just a little bit more. Break out of that comfort zone and even if you know that this will mean that it will slow you down or you'll be the last one to finish. Take it from someone who knows what it's like to be slow/last, who really gives a shit, you get over it pretty quick!
~ I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to better than you ever thought you could be. Ken Venturi
Sidenote: The athlete that didn't think she could do. DID IT that day! Took her a little longer but she did it and in my books that's really all that counts :)
Amen sister!! I LOVE this blog post!! So fantastic! This is the beauty of crossfit! Everyday you walk into the gym and see the WOD and think "how am I going to do that?! I can't do that!" and then rep by rep, you get it done. It doesn't matter how fast you do it, you just do it one rep at a time. The real benefit of the clock is that the next time you face that same WOD and you do it again, just like the last one, rep by rep, sometimes you get to see you growth as you get it done, just a little faster. Thanks for making this post and putting the challenge out there!
ReplyDeleteGOOD JOB AND HOW TRUE IT HAS OPENED MY EYES:)
ReplyDeleteI will assume this Anonymous comment is from my dad hence ALL CAPS. Love ya daddio!
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