My friend Anna used to tell her students, “Nobody’s good at everything, but everybody‘s good at something.”
And that’s pretty true at CrossFit. Most people excel in one area. They might be good at other things, but they rock it out on one particular lift or skill. You have people like that guy I watched blow through push-ups and box jumps like it was a stroll through the park. There’s my sister-wife who can dead-lift ridiculous weights. Colin climbs on and over stuff like a monkey. Phil can snatch his own body-weight. Erin will run circles around you. So will Paul. (Actually, Paul can do most things. But he’s kind of a freak of nature.)
There’s really nothing that I excel at at CrossFit. People don’t point to me as an example of how to do anything in the gym.
In the gym.
Did you get that part?
Because last Wednesday, a bunch of us CrossFitters went rollerskating. Turns out, I’m kind of a bad-ass in the rink. I had no idea I could skate like that!
Could it be my secret fantasy is not a pipe dream, after all?