Rest Day
Jason, last week above Red Mountain Pass.
Goals are important. Why do you show up everyday? Why do you work so hard to get better? Are you trying to be strong and fast just for the sake of being strong or fast? Or is it more than that?
Do you have a sport or activity you are passionate about and you workout to be better? Or are you just able to be ready for anything at anytime?
How useful are you? Considering all of the strong women at our gym, it’s funny to hear men offer to help some of our women by moving or splitting wood, moving a mini-fridge, or picking up a heavy box UPS just delivered. They have no idea that our women, and some of our men (Temple), can run circles around most. Makes me giggle, and I see the women smile when offered the “help” others think they need. For me, I’d feel much safer to have one of our strong girls over the traditional “help” offered by most.
I’ll take the toughness required to do anything at anytime, and the never quit attitude over the uncertainty out there.
I’ve asked before, and it’s good to answer every so often…what is your why?
Why do I do it? Personally I have a goal…I want to be City Boyz underwear model. In addition I want Caterina to stop making fun of my sit ups. That is why I do it.
I was advised by Katarina that, even she, in the first grade, could spell her own name. I was advised to tell Mr. Khris, “if he can’t spell my name, I may have to open a can of whoop-ass!” Consider yourself warned. You definitely have a way with the ladies, Cocoa Butterliciousness.
Dear Tammy,
Please tell Cathoriennah I am sorry. It will not happen again.
Good post today, Tormenter. And nice photo, too. I love it that we are all a group of people, working together, but with individual goals. Each of us has our own “why” but the means to get to the end can be found by working together as a group. The power of the group to push us, and help us acheive our own goals, is amazing. I enjoy watching it every class.
And, no, I do not need help moving the refrigerator, but sometimes it is nice to have the help offered!
Love you, Faith! and I still miss you at the 6am…Your words always inspire me and I think of you often as I push through the discomfort…xox
btw, I need to be skrong to keep my boys in line.
I tell them “Mama will ALWAYS be skronger than you, so don’t even TRY to fight me!!”
By the time they’re 16 I’ll be 70s Big.
Laurie, I miss you and all the 6 am-ers, too! I’ll get to come back some day! You are so SKRONG already, and getting SKRONGER every day! And Alan said that it is OK to be 70s big as long as your not 70s hairy!! Bleck!!
I originally joined crossfit when i realized that I couldn’t walk my very strong and hoppy puppy – so, as I’ve gotten stronger, she’s grown and gotten stronger …and so i continue to get stronger and stronger….it’s a vicious cycle….. Maybe I should’ve given her tequila and cigarettes to stunt her growth….damn….
BTW – I want to thank all of you who keep website up with pics and all that.,… I am sure it is a fair amount of work – and all the other work you do to be there ON TIME and to help us, push us, laugh at us…. it is a lot of fun seeing and reading the stuff on here.
My goals – to start a male strip dance team for nursing homes….
To NOT drool in my oatmeal the last 10 or so years of my life – of course that is a problem since I already drool in my oatmeal…. and all other food too….
To be able to lift four scuba dive tanks (two in each hand) and carry them to the dive boat, jump in and not fall flat on my face….
To be able to dive double steel 130’s pumped to max pressure (that would be 160 cubic feet of air in each), put them on my BC, sling a similar bottle of air on my side and walk into the water wearing them to dive in the FLorida caves (that would be about 215# of gear and the equivalent of six regular dive tanks full of air). BTW – did you know the AIR in a standard scuba tank weighs about 5#? Most people don’t think of air as having weight, but it really does. The air in the tanks above would weigh about 30#!
PG