Motivated or Mortified?

Thursday, June 04, 2009

I often talk to people who have seen or heard about our CrossFit training and I usually get only one of two responses:

Response 1: Oh my Gosh, that's way too hard, I could never do that.

Response 2: Oh my Gosh, that looks so hard, I want to be able to do that!

I guess you could call this a matter of two people being on the same planet, but living in different worlds.

One person is mortified, the other is motivated.

One person sees things as hard, the other sees things as a challenge to be met.

I prefer to see everything in life as a challenge, because a challenge is something to rise up to, to conquer, to defeat, to best.

Hard sucks, but a challenge represents an opportunity to show what you're made of.

So in the end it's all a matter of perspective, but boy...what a difference that  perspective will make when it comes to your attitude towards your workout.

And to demonstrate what a nice, strong attitude looks like, check out  the COOl DOWN part of my 9am classes workout today and then ask yourself this question:

Too hard...or challenging?!!
 

Either way, I still love ya ; )

Live With Passion,

Roy
 

Workout Of The Day:
"Busted"
Warmup - As many pullups as possible in 10 minutes
100 Thrusters (95-m / 55-w) for time
Cool down - 1 mile run carrying 16lb sledgehammer