As a kid, a lot of things made me proud of myself. A 102 on a spelling test (I had to get the two Bonus Words to be satisfied), getting the violin solo in orchestra, a blue ribbon at Field Day, making it into the Pioneer Playmakers drama troupe.<\/p>\n
But during the course of my adult life, there haven’t been a whole lot of times when I felt like patting myself on the back.<\/p>\n
I didn’t feel particularly proud of myself when I got my Master’s. My roommates had to be like, “Uh, Amy, are you going to invite us to your graduation?” I said, “You want to go? Wait, do you think my parents would want to go?”<\/p>\n
I bought a house, but I wasn’t brimming with pride on closing day. I just signed a bunch of paper and pay my mortgage on time every month. Woo-frickin-hoo.<\/p>\n
I teach children every damn day of the week, but I don’t walk out of my school, going, “I make a difference<\/strong>.” Most days, I’m just glad I haven’t doled out any corporal punishment.<\/p>\n But then I go to CrossFit Durham<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today the WOD was: alternating 20\/18\/16\/14\/12\/10\/8\/6\/4\/2 burpees and 2\/4\/6\/8\/10\/12\/14\/16\/18\/20 double-unders<\/p>\n My time: 20:52 Rx*<\/p>\n I finished last.<\/p>\n Again.<\/p>\n And most definitely, a spectator would have said less, “What an athlete!” and more, “Wow. That’s…she’s really…trying hard, <\/em>isn’t she?”<\/p>\n But you know what? I hate burpees, I hate double-unders,<\/a> and I did ’em anyway. Afterward, I had to lie on the floor, whimpering, and hit my inhaler twice, but I finished.<\/p>\n Why I love CrossFit: I come in dead last and still feel proud of myself. Every time.<\/p>\n *Rx, y’all.<\/strong> I can count on two fingers how many times I’ve done a WOD as prescribed. Today was #2. (My middle finger, as it were. Which I dedicate to burpees everywhere.) Yes, I had to do a single bounce in between each double-under, but I didn’t<\/em> count attempts, which is considered totally legit to do. No, if a rep was going to count, I was going to jump over that rope.<\/p>\n And jump I did. And burpee I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a kid, a lot of things made me proud of myself. A 102 on a spelling test (I had to get the two Bonus Words to be satisfied), getting the violin solo in orchestra, a blue ribbon at Field Day, making it into the Pioneer Playmakers drama troupe. But during the course of my … Continue reading Why I Love CrossFit, Part 1<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}