Focus, fight, and forge ahead with Cindy: WOD fun

CrossFit followers would be few and far between this very day if it weren’t for the sheer enjoyment we all get from CrossFitting. In a quasi-masochistic way, we do this for the fun of it. Cindy reminds us, as she often does, that a little more WOD fun never hurt anybody. Especially if your guilty of making CrossFit your job instead of your playtime.

Remember when you were young and it was summer. You were surrounded by your friends running around outside. You were running around so fast that you thought, holy crap I’m going so fast my legs are gonna fall off! You didn’t care what you looked like when you were running, you didn’t care about what you were wearing. You were just having the most fun. Then you grew up.

When was the last time you walked on the WOD floor and just had fun?

You weren’t worrying about your time or thinking “oh let me get through this so I can go about my day”…and you weren’t caught up in; hope this gets me into my skinny jeans…you just HAD FUN!

When was the last time you actually took the time to soak up everything around you on the WOD floor. Trainers, fellow CrossFitters, yourself?

We all get pissed off every once and while when we feel like we could have been better that’s okay, it happens not every WOD is going be your best WOD. But I think that we forget to have fun because we get stuck in the thought of “what is this going to do for me?”

Yes, we all have goals within CrossFit. Be it health, The Games, lose weight. But where is the goal that ensures CrossFit remains a permanent lifestyle, not a passing destination. Do you ever set the goal for yourself to have fun? To have fun while you are working on all those other goals.

That is why CrossFit appeals to so many people…it is always different. It is always fresh & sexy. CrossFit is fun.

That’s also why we had so much fun running around with our friends when we were young. Before we grew up, we didn’t listen to that voice saying “slow down,” all we heard was “FASTER! FASTER! FASTER!”

When I step foot into my CrossFit Box I am me. I am not just a Wife, I am not just a Mom, I am not just a friend…I am me. And it is within that hour that I am allowed to just have fun. And it is in that hour doing CrossFit and having fun that makes me a better wife…a better Mom…and am better friend.

CrossFit won’t do anything for you if you aren’t doing the work on and off the WOD floor, but when was the last time you realized that your hard work within CrossFit is fun?

I can’t tell you how many squats I did yesterday but I can give you about five one liners that I heard in my class that made me laugh out loud. I can tell you I had fun, and everyone else did too.

Its not a secret anymore; CrossFit, good for the soul, good for your ass.

Strength:

Back Squat
3×5

For Time:

“Dig a hole”
(Final WOD at CFNA’s Winter Throwdown)

5-Burpess
10-Pistols/leg
15-Full Squat Snatches 65/95
20-Chest to bar pull-ups
25-Push Press 65/95
30-Sumo Deadlift High-pulls 65/95
55-Unbroken Double Unders
*Athlete will have two attempts at Double Unders. If the set is broken once athlete may begin again from rep one. If the set is broken a second time, athlete must go back to the previous movement and complete it again before returning to Double Unders. If athlete should fail on their next two attempts at Double Unders athlete must go back two movements, and so on.
(15 minute cap)

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