Life can be tough. Everyone has bad days and good ones.
I was fortunate to find something like CrossFit that helped me develop the tools to get through the rough times. When I look back at the times where I have struggled mentally or felt like I’m in a rough patch it almost always coincided with a lack of consistent training. Doing CrossFit and pushing myself has taught me lessons that carry over into every other aspect of my life. I was lucky enough to find something like this at a young age but we are never too old to start doing hard things and pushing ourselves to become better.
Below is a random list of things I have learned and continue to learn from the great coaches and people I have trained with over the years and the CrossFit community in general.
1. I can do it. Whatever it is, I can do it.
2. The workouts that look the easiest are often the hardest and the ones that look the hardest often aren’t as bad as they seem.
3. Listen to your coaches; they are usually right.
4. Don’t be scared of failing. We learn more from our failures than our successes.
5. You can get a surprising amount of things done in a short amount of time. It all depends on how you apply yourself.
6. Correct technique takes patience but is worth every second.
7. Doing things in group makes things better. Don’t try to go it alone.
8. I wish I did gymnastics as a kid.
9. We are either moving forward or moving backwards. There is no such thing as staying the same. The only constant in life is change.
10. The strongest or the weakest muscle in your body is always between the ears. Make it the strongest for success.
Take what you want from this list, it’s just scratches the surface of the things I have learnt over the last 12.5 years of training. The important thing is to realize that whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. Belief is all that matters. I’m forever grateful that I found something as influential and life changing as CrossFit so early on and I am privileged to be able to coach and help others for a living now.
Getting yourself in the door of the gym is often the hardest part of training. So on the days that you don’t feel like training or you’re struggling to get yourself out of bed just visualise yourself walking in the door, seeing the people you train with and your coach there ready to go. You probably already feel better and ready to get after it.
RIP IN!!!
