CrossFit: The Cure To Exercise...

    FGB #6

"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations." 

Today humans everywhere are bombarded with the call, almost the demand, for exercise. The cure all be all to the human condition today seems to be mindless repetitious activity with no central theme. Until now. Until CrossFit became the Cure to exercise.

People yearn for stimulation. But stimulation without purpose is just teasing and after a while too much teasing just pisses everyone off. Today we are teased with exercise. Exercise that leaves out the most important organs, and leaves us hot bothered and unsatisfied.

Today most forms of exercise leave out our brain. When we just exercise we stop thinking. When we stop thinking we lose interest. When we lose interest we quit...hence why exercising always fails, or even if most folks keep at it, fails to deliver the results we want. Exercise just becomes another thing to do, not something we need, enjoy, love. Exercise is just another disease we desperately need to show the cure for.

This hit me like a tone of bricks when I heard an amazing PCF trainer ask a first time CrossFitter, what she thought of her first WOD. Mind you this was her first "WOD", but by no means was she new to "exercising". The newbie replied, "Its ok, but I had to think alot". She went on to explain, like many others before her, that she usually just puts head phones on and runs. She is never required to build a relationship, think of others, learn a name, learn a new movement, be different than yesterday. She is only required to exercise. To become stimulated. To do "something", which in the end, may amount to worse than nothing.

I am no longer sold that some activity is better than none. In the broad sense of the realization, folks who do nothing are "honestly" living on borrowed time. They are accepting what will come out of their decisions. Folks who believe their "something" is doing good, when it actually is just as detrimental as nothing, are not only leading others astray, but may turn off generations of folks to come because it looks as though "your damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Eventually this scenario played out and the trainer strolled my way to tell me the end to their story. This is what an avid, lifer of exercise may think of CrossFit. "It was too hard to understand in the beginning, so I stopped trying". If that single phrase doesn't make you cringe about the human race nothing will.

CrossFit is rooted within the physical. In fact 4 of the components of fitness are nothing but bodily. However 4 other components are rooted within the mind. All this means is a good program doesn't ask you to exercise, its asks you to train your body at the same time you train your mind. The last two components bridge the gap between mind and body making a connection unique to CrossFit.

As of today our newbie has not returned, nor do I believe she will for some time. Its seems those folks addicted to exercise have the hardest time realizing that exercising isn't fitness, and fitness isn't mindless activity. Fitness is using all of you to become stronger, more resilient, wiser. Fitness is as far from exercise as CrossFit is from an elliptical.

Today CrossFit will ask you to count. To remember technique. To breath at appropriate times. To be aware of your surroundings. To remember where your ass is. To be aware of others. To have the ability to function mentally while physically you don't want to. Today Crossfit will ask you to join the cure, body mind and soul, and begin training for the unknown, and unknowable...something you will need every advantage to overcome.

Strength:

Deadlift
5/3/1
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Skill:

Squat Clean & Jerk
*Athlete should not elevate beyond 75% 1Rm

Auxiliary: 

Every minute on the minute for eight minutes
1-CJ @ 60% 1RM
*Perform the movement with variables such as splitting, push jerking, splitting with the opposite leg.

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Comments

[runmelrun]

2 DL
nice skills class, thanks chas

[nikki j]

8DL @ 170
Skills with 75lbs

[Franchise]

4 dl @ 365
skills w/ 145

[holly]

3 dead @ 255
skills @ 95

[vicki]

10 DL @ 130#
skills @ 65#

Good class!!

[kara MIKOLAJEWSKI]

7 deadlift @ 210

[Min]

7 dl @ 210