{"id":1400,"date":"2010-11-03T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2010-11-03T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T02:07:37","slug":"you-dan-love-you-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/you-dan-love-you-dan\/","title":{"rendered":"!@#$% You, Dan (Love You, Dan!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My good buddy, former roomie, altogether-great-guy Dan commented on my post<\/a> about Saturday’s workout:<\/p>\n

Perhaps this coach was actually doing her job \u2013 being a coach? She\u2019s there to help you confront what is keeping you from being the person you want to be. And you\u2019re there because you want to make some changes. <\/em><\/p>\n

So make some changes. Do what you normally wouldn\u2019t do \u2013 so what if you come in last? Like you don\u2019t deserve to be a part of a team, merely because you\u2019re not the best one on it?<\/em><\/p>\n

Take the coaching Amy; she says wax the cars, wax on, wax off\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

My problem wasn’t the content of the coaching, Dan. It was the delivery. Her face was a mask of disgust; disdain oozed from her sweat glands.<\/p>\n

And I know you’re going to say, “Take the coaching anyway.” To which I’ll reply, “No. Shut the hell up. (Love you!)” Part of coaching is motivating. What if I scoffed at my student Zeke<\/a> and said, “Why can’t you just spell<\/em>?”<\/p>\n

(Plus, I don’t mind being part of a team, if<\/strong> I feel like I can contribute something. Maybe in the future I’ll be there, but right now I’m not.)<\/p>\n

So was I feeling sorry for myself?* Mos def.<\/p>\n

Was she being a good coach?** Fuck no.<\/p>\n

*I had taken 45 fourth graders on a 15-hour field trip the day before. I’m giving myself a break for being a little vulnerable.<\/p>\n

**Let it be said that this was not one of the usual coaches at CrossFit. Every other coach I’ve had has been helpful, knowledgeable, courteous, and supportive.<\/p>\n

P.S. Dan’s pretty much always right about stuff. It makes me so MAD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My good buddy, former roomie, altogether-great-guy Dan commented on my post about Saturday’s workout: Perhaps this coach was actually doing her job \u2013 being a coach? She\u2019s there to help you confront what is keeping you from being the person you want to be. And you\u2019re there because you want to make some changes. So … Continue reading !@#$% You, Dan (Love You, Dan!)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}