Pursuit
The NCAA brackets are about to be released for March Madness. Every team on the road to the championship will end in defeat: Except one.
Yet year after year the struggle continues.
The CrossFit Games is a lot like that. Out of more than 100,000 athletes, only one will be crowned champion in July. The odds of YOU being that one aren’t good. So why should you work so hard, day in and day out, chasing the near impossible dream?
Because its not about the win; it’s about the pursuit of the win.
It’s in the pursuit that makes us perfect our skills. Even the ones we’re already good at. One double-under better than yesterday is still better.
It’s the pursuit that makes us return to the gym day in and day out. We live sore, we survive tired, we even smile while sweaty because we see the reward.
It’s the pursuit that pushes us to that new PR, and what keeps us trying after a hundred missed attempts.
It’s in the pursuit that keeps us living intentionally everywhere else. We’re finally able to control our food, our sleep, our downtime.
It’s the pursuit that drives us to watch five videos on burpee technique so we get one more rep with our friends around cheering.
It’s in the pursuit that motivates us to surround ourselves with like-minded people. Especially the ones who are better than we are. We know they makes us better.
It’s in the pursuit that we realize we are more capable than we ever dared to dream.
It’s not about winning. It’s about the desire to win, and what we discover along the way when we pursue it with everything we have.
by: Mindy Coby
Warm-up:
Coaches choice
Skill:
Hang squat snatch
*Work up for 10 Minutes
-then-
Snatch
*EMOTM for (6) minutes, perform 20 Double-unders and 1 Snatch. Technique should be immaculate.
For time:
5-Rounds of Cindy
30-Swings 55/70
5-Rounds of Cindy
*Cindy is 5 pull-ups/10 push-ups/15 Squats
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Well put Mindy!
If nothing else it’s the competition we have with ourselves to see how we improve from day to day. It may be a gradual improvement that you don’t notice until a month or two from now but when it does surface you know your pursuit is all worth it.
95 / 18:50
125PR
15:44
It was nice to see everyone this morning!
Great post, Min!!
120PR / 18:17RX
95pr/ 16:10RX
Great work this morning 5ers. Awesome work on the pull up Debbie Alexander.
And Kelly the Overhead squat is looking good! Soon it will all come together, promise!
Thanks for the great energy this morning, dispite the feeling of being so done with Mr. Winter!!:)
115/13:31(m)
Was nice to spend the morning with y’all.
12:08 @ 1/2 the pushups per round
10:?? Hallow rocks in place of pu
12:47rx
11:30(M) i was modified on so many levels.
17:47 SUPER modified….
did this with Shelly during Tylers class…only time on Mondays I get to the gym…
I did use the 55# bell but sets of 5 and took a long time…..mostly because I was being a baby….
16:33 …what Cindy said
We both made weird animal sounds while swinging that 55# bell.
Very thankful to be able to wod late on Monday’s! Thanks