It’s Only Scary for 10 Minutes
This is a great blog post from Phil Mancini of CrossFit Genesis in Roseville, CA.
Embarking on a new path can be intimidating, especially for the first time. A simple way to ease the fear is to remind yourself why you’re taking the journey in the first place, and to commit yourself to not getting lost along the way and winding up back at your starting point.
That’s not to say that there won’t be some scary moments. New paths offer new challenges and obstacles that we’ve never seen or experienced before. But that’s the point. Without overcoming obstacles and pushing ourselves, we’ll never progress and become our best self.
The good news is that the scary part of CrossFit lasts around 10 minutes. The workouts are short AND intense, and we’re uniquely designed to handle this type of physical activity. Being scared is fine, we all get butterflies from time to time. But that message is telling us that we’re about to CONQUER something scary, and the rewards of that can’t be measured by a workout time.
5 Comments:
I’m sorry I missed this workout this morning, and I don’t know that I have the ability to get to it later today. Just FYI, this is the same WOD we did on 12-16-11, and it was my first Rx workout.
– kinsey on January 11th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
This was a pretty good one. I’m just glad I can do box jumps again!
WOD, Rx: 10:17, I think. Could have done better, but I was laughing at Jesse’s punk Pandora channel - it was apparently “let’s play punk covers of Dixie Chicks/CCE songs” day.
– Daron on January 11th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
There are all kinds of opinions about my musical selection… good or bad I welcome them all
I did chuckle when I heard “Goodbye Earl” come on as the first song in the WOD
– Jesse on January 11th, 2012 at 8:12 pm
I was wondering if anybody else caught the Dixie Chicks song. I started singing in my head and ALMOST lost count.
– Carisa on January 11th, 2012 at 9:10 pm
I am almost sad I missed punked out Dixie Chicks.
Loved the WOD
Wiped out on the box jumps and did lose count….but I have no scars today! YAY
– Judy on January 12th, 2012 at 9:35 am