Saturday
WOD:
“Christine”
3 Rounds for Time:
Row 500 Meters
12 Deadlifts (current body weight)
21 Box Jumps (24 in)
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Allan does “Christine”. Allan has Cerebral Palsy. Motivate.
This Week: Face Your Fears
How many of you are afraid to go to “that place”? Do you know where I’m talking about? I’m talking about the place where it hurts to continue, you are dragging yourself through the reps, but you are pushing the intensity in a way that few people experience. You can’t breathe, your muscles are fatigued, and it hurts to stand still when you try to rest. You don’t go there often do you? Why? It hurts, and you are afraid of that. You’re afraid to push past that part of your brain that wants you to stop, so you slow down. The brain says “Careful, you’re going to puke and your body wants to fail.”
In January 2008, I saw this video (above). I had been “doing CrossFit” since late summer in 2006. After seeing this, something clicked in me. I knew that if someone like Allan could push that far past the limits of what he and everyone else thought he was capable of, then I had no excuse not to go there everytime I worked out. I had been to that place of pain and puke once or twice before, and I didn’t like it. I feared it. I was complacent at best. Seeing this video lit me up. I remember watching it in my office in Arlington, VA and telling myself that when I went home that evening, I was going “there”. And I did. I did “Christine” and it was the most motivated I had ever been for and during a workout and to this day, it is my favorite because everytime it comes up, I remember the first time I actually owned it. I anticipated the hurt and the pain, and pushed past it and left it all on the floor. Beautiful.
“Two people can accomplish more than twice as much as one. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But people who are alone when they fall are in real trouble.” Ecclesiates 4:9-10
