A Ton of Inspiration
Get your head right, get your body right, get your life right.
A Wealth of Insight
Centered in movement, often grounded in humor, and always intelligent, these pieces are timeless bites of wisdom. Start anywhere. Or choose a category (below) and dive into it!
Sacrifice
But the term "sacrifice" actually means "the surrender of something for the sake of something else." It's not deprivation for deprivation's sake. Sacrifice means giving up this in order to get that.
The Rules of One
There is only one rep. The one you're doing right now.
Losing Your Fran Virginity
Bumpers and a barbell: $300. Pull-up bar: $100. Watching a newbie roll around on the floor after their first Fran, trying not to puke: Priceless.
What You Make Of It
This world is exactly what you make it -- no better or worse than your own attitude every single day. And if you can improve yourself, well, you can improve the world too.
Choosing Your Happy Hour
Whatever you're doing is cool by me. Is it cool by you? And are you where you want to be?
H is for Homework . . . or Hotness?
The "S" Word
Don't ever apologize for having standards.
Barbell Voodoo
What's your barbell voodoo?
Tell Your Fear to Stuff It
So many people, in so many ways in life, are scared to do what they want to do. Don't be one of them. Step up.
The CrossFit Conscience
Somewhere in the back of your mind, wondering what would have happened -- how you would feel -- if you had gone a little bit harder, been a little bit stronger, got an extra round, did the right thing . . .
Rekindling the Metcon Fire
I am not exaggerating when I say that you found salvation in metcon. It was your first introduction to CrossFit and it saved you from who you were before. It saved all of us.
CrossFit Math
Accomplishment = Effort x ∞
Suckage
Some days suck like dumbbell workouts.
I'm Not Your Mother
I won't tap out. I won't quit the WOD before the buzzer. I won't drop the bar. You're going to have to pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.
Slipping
You won't recognize the moment that you start to slide backwards.
The Bar Tells The Truth
Here's the funny thing: It tells the truth when you walk away too. How you leave a failed lift tells more about you than you imagine.
Kindness and Stuff
But Elite Fitness is what attracts us and drives us. Compassion is what keeps us. Love is what makes us come back to the Painatorium.
Go To Your Dark Place
Happy won't get you where you want to go. You can't take your mind away from the pain if you want to achieve. You have to go straight at the pain and enter it.
Are You Accountable?
A simple question.
Burning Cars
Do we complain too much as a community? Do we posture too much about the WOD, about our pain, about our efforts? Do we give our exercise far more importance than it deserves?