Do people still do that?
Hotel lobbies make me think of CrossFit. Actually they make me thankful of CrossFit and CrossFitters, and aware of just how many of us there aren’t.
“Do people still smoke in here,” I asked while standing at the counter checking in. “Of course”, the concierge said, “non-smoking is only in bars and restaurants.”
It’s the smoke and the surprise that make me so thankful of what we have and what we share. It’s the smoke and the surprise that bring me back to reality. Reality is-CrossFit’s big, but not big enough.
Sheltered came to mind. Blessed followed, then that bad kinda feeling crept in. The one that makes you feel like you have lots of work to do and not enough time to do it in.
I spend my days nights and weekends at “CrossFit Somewhere or Something” and I have kinda forgot everything else. I forgot the ones on the other side if the garage door that I set out to help in the first place. The ones that are still afraid, or worse yet the ones who have no clue of what we do all day in warehouses across the world.
“Naked, no butter, no nothing, meat” I said to a waiter in a foreign town as I ordered steak with a desert of more steak. We don’t have this guy trained yet so he was surprised and asked a million questions. After I gave him the five second CrossFit+Paleo explanation he said, “I didn’t know people did that.”
Our waiter was surrounded by CrossFit’s (twenty within 12 miles) and he had no clue what CrossFit or Paleo was. Amazingly, we are surrounded by restaurants and hotels and everything in between who have yet to hear even the faintest CrossFit grumble.
And this is how we live, side by side and so far apart. This is what happens when we stop preaching to the masses in favor of preaching to the choir.
CrossFit has created a ripple, we need a tsunami. And while some are sitting around the fire worried that the brand is being watered down, billions survive who have no clue who we are or how we can help them. And it’s our fault if they never know that something more is out there….waiting in warehouses all over the world.
Strength:
Power Clean
8×1@85%-90% 1RM
Power Snatch
8×1@85%-90% 1RM
*Rest no longer than (1) Minute between efforts. Increase tempo assuming each pull is flawless.
For score:
Overhead squat/Snatch 75/105
Chest to bar pull-up
3/6/9/12……
*Beginning with OHS on the first round, alternate rounds with Squat Snatches. Score total rounds achieved.
AMRAP 7 Minutes
-Recover 1 Minute then-
Not for time:
3-Pause pull-ups
3-Pause overhead squats 75/105
3 Rounds
*One pause pull-up is (3) seconds held chin over bar. Kipping is allowed.
**One pause OHS is (3) seconds held in the basement.
Post impression to comments.
Look at Krissy!!!! she is AWESOME!
Nice!!!! Love it!!
So many more badass pics and videos to come… Can’t wait to see em all!
When a lifter was ready to pull, the place was dead quiet…. Ppl didn’t even whisper. However, anytime one of us was up there we could hear a faint click click click click click click…. Yeah, JB took lots of pictures
Haha!! You guys are too kind!
The more we surround ourselves with CrossFit, the harder it is to understand those that don’t. Thanks for the reminder to keep trying.
Congrats to all that competed this weekend! You guys were awesome and inspiring to watch!
12′s + 5RX
9′s+2 RX
9′s+5 RX
Competing at a completely different event brought on completely different nerves this weekend! Glad to have been a part of something different for PCF!
And, yes…the click click click click click click of the camera did not go unnoticed!!
Thats an awesome pic Krissy
Thanks!
6′s+7m
Power Snatches @75#
Legless rope climbs (pulling up to box)
Pause pull-ups
Pause back extension
Yesterday-
Bench @100# & BD Rows
5×5 weighted dips and weighted pull-ups (12# vest)
Rowing with 2 legs!! YAY!!
6′s+4(m)
IMPRESSIVE 5a chest to bar butterflies Mo!!
Thanks Michelle
9′s + 13 rx
First 9am in quite a while and I quite enjoyed it…and thus far one of you (Jen W is awesome) has commented about their workout…..9amers are cool, dedicated, and constantly improving…but they suck at posting to the site….
Krissy that is a badass pic of u!!!
Wod…9′s(m) 65#power cleans and the little bar with 5#plates AND no prosthetic (felt great)! Then worked on climbing the rope…I was about 2ft up and my damn arm popped off and nailed me in the forehead…gonna look like a tard tomorrow with a bruised forehead…wont do that again
omg lmao!
Was feeling good thinking I could do this Wod today & found out I had to completely modify it. Would hate to disappoint jb so ill post anyways.
12+8 m (glute hamstring sit ups & front squats)
It was nice to have ya as a trainer today JB
9′s+8 M
Big awesome classes all night. Super fun.
12+17
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I want to be like Krissy when I grow up!
9+10m
Today in school we had to write about our dreams and goals and it made me realize how much crossfit has influenced me, not only the sport but the people who are in it with me. Thanks for being awesome.
“Nick squared” at 6a, and Diana whom I never see.
530…what a riot. love a class that demands laughter.
King (whom I know wont read this) – always a howl and what a spectacle tonight. twice in 7 days?! a joy for sure (eye rolling w love).
Nick/Joel…gotta come up w a stage name for this duo. your “sidebars” make me chuckle.
Brit…you looked good tonight but i’m gonna check in w you tomorrow. glad you bought the book. I know you’re heating tonight…on Casey’s intermission from his shoulder.
Dana…I know you’re frustrated, but power movements and OHS look good. Bar path improved over the wko too. Get rest.
Moment of the eve goes to Sam-I-Am…who finished my sentence during tutorial wo missing a beat JUST to demo he’s an ADD pro! Awesomely safe snatch setup tonight as well.
Oh…and did you know…Darin has Incredible Hulk undies! How fitting, eh?
9+3 m
first OHS in a long time…felt good
Thanks k! Great class. That WOD was sick.
12′s +5
9+12(m)
Fun class- great group of people.
I work with low income people in the worst part of downtown Columbus. I had a client today who had no idea a Snickers bar was unhealthy. This isn’t uncommon. I have people who don’t ever go to the grocery store. They have no idea what the format of a grocery store looks like. Everything they eat comes from a corner store, vending machine or drive thru. People with diabetes who have absolutely no concept what the word carbohydrate means; children who have never tasted plain water in their lives.
We certainly are faced with a challenge…but we are CrossFitters, we’re good at challenges.
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