We are Crossfit Athletes.
Additionally, all of us are something more than JUST Crossfit athletes. Parents. Students. Employees. Significant Others. Community Members. Balancing multiple titles and tasks is difficult. Somtimes, adding “Crossfit Athlete” into the mix of things we consider ourselves to ‘be’ seems like the last title we should pile into our busy schedules.
Even when we are able to make it to the gym, it can be hard to forget all the other titles and subsequent responsibilities we hold in conjunction with being a “Crossfit Athlete”. Homework weighs heavy, work sucks, kids are at home waiting for dinner, and we worry about significant others feeling neglected. How on earth are we supposed to maintain focus on, and improve, a power clean when so many other things are going on in our lives?
Deep breath. One hour. One rep at a time.
A single hour of your day is spent maintaining the title of ‘Crossfit Athlete’. This is one hour of your life focused on YOU being better than you were yesterday. Crossfit offers you an opportunity to push your other titles aside, not forgetting them, but letting them take a back seat, while you improve yourself, physically and mentally, for 60 minutes of your day.
If you have a hard time letting go of your other titles and responsibilities for an hour, try letting go of your obligations with a single repetition exercise. With each pull up, sit up, power clean, thruster or push up, focus on making each ONE REP movement the best it can be. Then do it again. And again. All you have to worry about is completing this single movement in this very moment. Before you know it, an hour has passed, and you’ve performed your duties as a focused ‘Crossfit Athlete’.
You’re still a parent, a family member, a student, and/or a great significant other - but with the focus on ‘being a Crossfit Athlete’, you’ve improved your skill level within this title. You’ve given yourself a repreve from the stress of trying to mentally balance your other ‘title’ duties. And, you've also improved your ability to focus on the task at hand (which transitions into all title requirements).
Worrying about our other obligations, rather than focusing on what is required from us in the ‘now’, robs us of improving our overall skill set for the future.
Next time you find yourself faced with multiple duties required by your many titles, repeat after me:
“Deep breath. One Hour. One rep at a time.”
WOD - Tuesday - 2/21
"Angie"
For Time:
100 Pull Ups
100 Push Ups
100 Sit Ups
100 Squats
Additionally, all of us are something more than JUST Crossfit athletes. Parents. Students. Employees. Significant Others. Community Members. Balancing multiple titles and tasks is difficult. Somtimes, adding “Crossfit Athlete” into the mix of things we consider ourselves to ‘be’ seems like the last title we should pile into our busy schedules.
Even when we are able to make it to the gym, it can be hard to forget all the other titles and subsequent responsibilities we hold in conjunction with being a “Crossfit Athlete”. Homework weighs heavy, work sucks, kids are at home waiting for dinner, and we worry about significant others feeling neglected. How on earth are we supposed to maintain focus on, and improve, a power clean when so many other things are going on in our lives?
Deep breath. One hour. One rep at a time.
A single hour of your day is spent maintaining the title of ‘Crossfit Athlete’. This is one hour of your life focused on YOU being better than you were yesterday. Crossfit offers you an opportunity to push your other titles aside, not forgetting them, but letting them take a back seat, while you improve yourself, physically and mentally, for 60 minutes of your day.
If you have a hard time letting go of your other titles and responsibilities for an hour, try letting go of your obligations with a single repetition exercise. With each pull up, sit up, power clean, thruster or push up, focus on making each ONE REP movement the best it can be. Then do it again. And again. All you have to worry about is completing this single movement in this very moment. Before you know it, an hour has passed, and you’ve performed your duties as a focused ‘Crossfit Athlete’.
You’re still a parent, a family member, a student, and/or a great significant other - but with the focus on ‘being a Crossfit Athlete’, you’ve improved your skill level within this title. You’ve given yourself a repreve from the stress of trying to mentally balance your other ‘title’ duties. And, you've also improved your ability to focus on the task at hand (which transitions into all title requirements).
Worrying about our other obligations, rather than focusing on what is required from us in the ‘now’, robs us of improving our overall skill set for the future.
Next time you find yourself faced with multiple duties required by your many titles, repeat after me:
“Deep breath. One Hour. One rep at a time.”
WOD - Tuesday - 2/21
"Angie"
For Time:
100 Pull Ups
100 Push Ups
100 Sit Ups
100 Squats
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