{"id":2290,"date":"2011-05-01T21:55:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T01:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2011-05-01T21:55:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T01:55:01","slug":"why-i-love-crossfit-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/why-i-love-crossfit-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love CrossFit, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the WOD, I sat in a pool of my own sweat on the rower, wheezing, when another CrossFitter came up and said, &#8220;Nice work.&#8221; I   held out my closed hand, and we did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/06\/09\/fox-anchor-calls-obama-fi_n_106027.html\">terrorist fist jab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t really done nice work. Not in the strictest sense. My push-ups were wormy, my kettle bell swings were grunty, and my rowing form would have made <a href=\"http:\/\/crossfitpaul.blogspot.com\/\">Paul<\/a> hang his head in shame. Watching <a href=\"http:\/\/ashleydentonfitness.blogspot.com\/\">Ashley<\/a>, or Anna, or Gabe, or <a href=\"http:\/\/eat-lift-live.blogspot.com\/\">Michael<\/a> do the WOD&#8212;they do nice work. They don&#8217;t make it look easy (if the WOD looks easy, you&#8217;re doing it wrong); they make it look fierce, and beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>But I did the WOD. I finished. And that, for some of us, is nice work.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that people who lift heavier weights, who don&#8217;t use bands, who do things in <em>half<\/em> the time I do (as did one guy recently, running the 400 meters) stand there and cheer me on, makes me feel like I&#8217;m doing nice work.<\/p>\n<p>Why I love CrossFit: People know you&#8217;re doing your damnedest and they acknowledge it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the WOD, I sat in a pool of my own sweat on the rower, wheezing, when another CrossFitter came up and said, &#8220;Nice work.&#8221; I held out my closed hand, and we did a terrorist fist jab. I hadn&#8217;t really done nice work. Not in the strictest sense. My push-ups were wormy, my kettle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/why-i-love-crossfit-part-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I Love CrossFit, Part 3<\/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-2290","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\/2290","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=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}