Life Broken Down: More Confusing Than Helpful....
Coleen...
Bryan...
“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company”
It is common human tendency to break things down to parts of the whole to see how things work. We dissect shit to see the insides. However, this dissection is usually death, and sometimes prevents us from understanding the whole. The whole may be the reason for the beauty in the first place, life not death.
Reductionism is a method which explains: to understand the whole we must study what makes it up. Nature for instance has many pieces and we supposedly can understand "nature" as an entirety, if we understand its constituents. But does that always hold true? Can we reduce everything and understand it better, or does that actually confuse us more?
The first thing that throws off this breakdown is that anything complex, usually can be complex a million different ways all at once. Fitting things like Nature, Religion, CrossFit into some weird typeset that can be broken down, then puzzled back together the same way inherently eliminates the beauty we see to begin with. And the reason they can all hold such beauty is because they don't fit into our tightly woven opinions of puzzles with only have one way to fit together.
Take the bible for instance. Arguably there is one basic theme: Accept christ as your savior, thereby believing in the word and following it. However, if you break down the action of each prophet, disciple, or follower individually, you may find contradictions, opinions and puzzle pieces that as a stand alone, don't seem to fit all to well. That is of course when you try to look at beauty, or even the perfection which it is through very human, very broken eyes. When you see the big book as a totality, you no longer need to argue its parts.
The same applies for CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets. Of course they are much less a religion, and truly less beautiful than lifelong spirituality, but breaking it down applies all the same. And just as atheists who don't want to believe try to find ways to make it somehow less true, folks continue to argue CF for no better reason than to make them feel comfortable with what they are doing. Or not doing.
For instance, lazy crazies want to claim they don't do CrossFit because Olympic Lifting for time is insane, and dangerous. Alright, instead of breaking down one piece of a beautiful program, just change the names. If your some crazy Osama Bin Olympic about shit, just call it metabolic conditioning with a bar, call it floor to overhead. Leave Snatching for the olympics. Better? Of course not, thats insanely simple and far to logical.
Maybe your one of those sciencey types and I applaud you for it. I also dig the science behind our incredible exercise program, but I am much more interested in proving it with a bar, than a pen, and I am not talented enough with numbers to do what others at HQ are doing now. Science is just simply observation, and the best way to observe CF working isn't to read some study, its to sweat. Instead of complaining how three minutes isn't enough, try it. Then prove it wrong. Do what you do, then play with what we do. Did yours get better because of ours....or do you need science to tell you that you are fitter.
To really experience the beauty of nature, watching just the rainbow isn't as sweet as the storm before it. David killing a dude in the Bible so he can tag his wife is much less the magic the book has to teach than the totality of forgiveness and good the whole book contains. CrossFit is the best there is simply because if you break it down, it is much less CrossFit, than simply other sports, or techniques unified making one great fitness routine the best their is. And the best way to celebrate the whole, is leave it as remarkable as it is, no more assembly necessary, no dissection required.
Strength:
Board Press
1,1,1,1,1
For Time:
25-Bears 65/95
25-Knees To Elbows
Post weight and time to comments.
Have to admit i tend to enjoy smaller classes a little more cuz it gives me the opportunity for a lot more 1:1. 530-ers... really good work tonight. strong effort at good form AND intensity for the entire wod. thanks for playin.
Keena and Shawn...awesome to see you back.
Posted by: k | January 27, 2011 at 08:41 PM
65/8:48m
Posted by: vicki | January 28, 2011 at 07:29 AM
135/5:30
Posted by: holly | January 28, 2011 at 07:50 AM
125/8:04
Posted by: runmelrun | January 28, 2011 at 08:04 AM
95/10:??
I was the last one to finish with a slow time but at least I did the WOD unmodified. Dislike the Bears!
Posted by: Renee | January 28, 2011 at 08:45 AM
95/7:56
Posted by: Mo | January 28, 2011 at 10:19 AM
115/7:26
Posted by: heather mc | January 28, 2011 at 01:39 PM
Josh: I'll get you my pretty, and your dog too! Eeeeeheeheee!!!! (that's for posting that photo of me!)
Posted by: colleen | January 28, 2011 at 01:58 PM
95 / 9:49
Posted by: Di | January 28, 2011 at 05:00 PM
75/8:40M not looking forward to next cpl days of soreness...lmao
Posted by: keena | January 28, 2011 at 06:37 PM
135 board press
706 wod
Keena you did great tonight- just stay with it! It'll come back to you quickly :)
Holly and Nicole great job on the wod tonight, killer times!
Posted by: Min | January 28, 2011 at 09:40 PM