Last week, you may remember, Coach Ashley gave us the difficult assignment of coming up with ten things we liked about our bodies. I came up with five:
1. Nice eyes.
2. Rhythm.
3. Coordination.
4. Freckled shoulders.
5. Strong back.
That’s where I ran out of ideas. But I’ve thought more about it, and I’m taking a mulligan.
6. I’m shaped like an hourglass. (Must…resist…urge…to add…disclaimer.)
7. I can make funny expressions with my face.
8. I can do 1,500 push-ups in 30 days.
9. I can mimic most accents. (It’s something my body can do! My brain and mouth are parts of my body.)
10. All right, all right. MY ASS. In a spirit of if-you-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em, I’m hereby giving up not liking my butt and choosing to like it. I did that with bananas and the guitar riff of “The Piña Colada Song”—I can do it with this.
Now! The funner part of the assignment! What do I like about my CrossFit laydeez’ bodies? Well!
Colleen: Legs.
All the way down to the floor.
And a voice that…actually, you hear that? That’s Colleen’s voice. You can hear it from anywhere.
Bea: I’m attacking pull-ups in July the way I did push-ups in June because I want to be able to do pull-ups like Bea. She’s a great, hulking beast in a teeny-tiny package.
Also, she’s a photographer with a GREAT EYE. I’m not a visual person myself, so I’m lucky if I actually get the subject of my photos in the frame. Her photos look like a magical magic person took them.
Melinda: This woman, before she started kung-fuing breast cancer, did the Metro Dash. That’s an event where you run, flip tires, climb up and over walls…!
And I love her giggle. So I say, “Goddammit!” a lot because it makes her giggle.
Also, she’s currently kung-fuing breast cancer, and looks awesome in a head-wrap. And she let me feel her falsies last night.
Lindsay: Lindsay is
so
very
hot.
I mean, damn. Gorgeous face. Nice curves. Hot-for-teacher glasses.
Nelly: Woman is strong. She can pick up very, very heavy things.
She has perfectly imperfect teeth. (Seriously, I love them. She smiles and, I don’t know, it’s beautiful and unexpected.)
And she does an amazing donkey kick burpee.
Ashley: Every part of her is perfectly rounded and firm. Everything on her body looks on purpose. I want that.
I learned a lot from doing this assignment. (1) My body is a tool, a pretty awesome one. It gets me where I need to go and can do some cool stuff. (2) Sometimes I need an extension on my homework assignments. And (3) my CrossFit Laydeez are smokin’.