Ten Things I Like About My Body and Those of My Laydeez

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’.