Every year CrossFit HQ releases 5 workouts, one a week, that needs to be completed at some point in a 4 day window. And people complete these workouts worldwide. They call this the Opens. Something happens during these weeks where people do things they didn’t think they could. At Never Doubt alone we had an 11 year old gets a ring muscle up. Vanessa, 3 1/2 years into doing CrossFit, got her first (and then 29 more) pistol squats. Gina, a 5+ year veteran, hit a max effort power clean and jerk. Sam, at 16 years old, qualified for the teens qualifier. Amazing physical accomplishments.
That is such a small microcosm of the feats we saw, at our gym and all over the world
You know what else happened recently at Never Doubt? Mark lost 13 pounds in the last 8 weeks. Since she started three months ago, Talita lost 18 pounds of body fat. Last week Brenda said she carried her recycling bins the whole way up her 700′ driveway without stopping to have to put them down. “It actually surprised me.”
I was reading an article recently that was talking about upside down thinking in a positive sense – the “need to totally turn ourselves on our heads sometimes to get at the change we need to craft.” See, what often happens is we read that list above and then make statements like, “well, I haven’t lost 13 pounds” or “I’m not even close to a muscle up.” But those accomplishments above are THEIR accomplishments. I spoke with each of them and you should have heard the tone in their voice and seen the look on their faces when they were talking about what they did – because it was THEIRS to own. Not yours.
I think we spend so much time wishing and wanting someone’s money or physique or muscle up or giftedness or weight loss…and we forget to flip it around and say 1) What’s my goal?, 2) What’s the halfway point to my goal? 3) What’s the next small step to move the needle towards my goal? They are them. And you are you. In the words of a former member we had: Bowl in your own lane.
Time to go upside down¡