Screw Paleo, try passion
Off the cuff predictions are like breathing. We can’t seem to get through the day without them. The surprise is when some of these predictions happen just the way we said they. Especially when we don’t want them to. Are we just that intuitive, or are words just that powerful?
In November I found myself in a crowd of individuals letting loose their feelings about Joe Paterno and his then recent scandalous involvements. Some were outraged, some optimistic, some indifferent. Saddened I unfortunately said days after he was fired from Penn State, “without his passion he won’t last three months”. He didn’t. Joe died January 22nd.
The papers will read, “Paterno gives in to cancer just months after 46 seasons with Penn State”. Many of us will hear, “A man lost his passion. A man lost his life.”
Daily I find myself awash with questions from new and old Paleo CrossFitters. Some are looking for new recipes for the same old things. Others are trying to learn how to take that first step. Many forgetting one simple thing, “Paleo is bullshit without passion”. Without passion, what the hell is there to live for anyway.
Many years ago I claimed diet was 80% of our health and wellness leaving the other 20% for exercising. I was wrong. Recently our Founder, Coach Glassman, said the percentages were more 50/50. Even that’s a stretch. Maybe, when it comes to health and wellness we have it all wrong. Maybe it’s 90% passion, 10% everything else. The goal seems to be; dedicate your life to what you love, then enhance you life the best way possible. CrossFit+Paleo.
I’m not saying CrossFit and so called “caveman” eating isn’t important. It most certainly is. So much so I have dedicated my life to teaching it. But don’t be fooled. We don’t live to eat we eat to live. All too often we succumb to living as were told instead of living how we should.
The Paleo diet is a profound piece of the puzzle. CrossFit clearly helps jigsaw it all together. But without passion in the blood. Without the fight, the hearts just doesn’t want to beat. We often die because we don’t want to live.
Its very clear, changing your food can dramatically effect your thoughts aspirations and actions. But if you have not clearly defined the reason for making that lifelong dedication to Paleo+CrossFit, chances are you won’t stick with it no matter how incredible the program is.
We don’t CrossFit just for the hour on the WOD floor. We CrossFit for the other 23 hours with our families, or futures, and our friends. We don’t skip desert because its fun. We skip desert because we care about being here for our kids, our wives, our husbands.
Sure enough my passion has nothing to do with CrossFit or some dumb-ass way a caveman supposedly ate. My passion is leaving this earth as a positive light. Not a dismal cloud. Its helping folks I care for, and growing as a human. CrossFit+Paleo is just my vehicle. I love them dearly but they are actions of a beating heart, not the heart itself.
Passion is many things to many people. To some it looks like pretty paintings, helpful charities, and meaningful counseling. To others it looks like building, preaching, teaching, cutting, singing, or even, God forbid, thrustering. It would appear we may benefit much more by finding something to live for rather than something to live with.
Skill:
Three position clean
5×2 AHAP
For Score:
5-Wall Climbs
15-Swings 35/55
30-Overhead Squats @45#
3 Rounds
Auxiliary:
Overhead Hold 85/115
1x Max time
“They are actions of a beating heart, but not the heart itself”. Love thatt! See you guys 5am tomorrow
Great point!
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.” ~ E. M. Forster
well put JB…i think people get mixed up and lost sometimes in the idea that Crossfit is the “next big thing”. but as it has been said so many times on here and stated so well in this post. Crossfit is not done after the WOD is over…. Its still with you when you go home. Its not just working out, its about getting better. Sure its about be better physically, you may look like something that was carved out of stone but thats not where it stops. Its about being a better human. Using the CF idea in every day life will make you better. Just like if we find a new lift or starting position that is going to make us stronger we do it. If we find something in our life that helps to improve us we keep it in, if it is hurting us we drop it.
95# on 3 position cleans
11:05
1:00 overhead hold
113#
11:40+
43 sec
anyone else exhausted?
Yes!
95#
10:04
1:25
85#
13:05
35Sec
11:23 m at 33#
1 min hold
85#
10:30 +
1:10
95# cleans
11:24 45# kb
1:45 oh hold
Ironic as it may be, it is just that CF mentality/passion that led me right where I am now…..grabbing ahold of that something that makes you better and choosing to own it and live it fully! Though I am physically removed from a CF community for the moment, its that passion I found in myself thru CF that has led me to want to put full effort into my relationship with God, Mitch and the girls…to make myself and my family better. That is something I am not sure I would have found had CF….more particularly PCF….not become a part of my life. I am certain that CF mentality will bring us back to CF community life as a family, when the time is right!
175# cleans
10:40ish
50 sec
My sopaz is now mobile, didn’t know I had one to tell u the truth
14:41(m) 1 rd half wall climbs
2 rds pushups
1:40 hold
12:07+
1:13 hold