{"id":2307,"date":"2011-04-10T11:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2011-04-11T21:02:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:02:59","slug":"why-i-love-crossfit-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/10\/why-i-love-crossfit-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love CrossFit, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like 95% of females in this country, I have spent a really stupid number of hours of my life fretting about what number would show up when I stepped on a scale. But about eight years ago, when I decided to seek treatment for my food addiction, I started by buying two books, one called Overcoming Overeating<\/em> and the other, When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies<\/em>. In them, the authors said, Do NOT weigh yourself; throw out your scale.<\/em> And I did. I didn’t weight myself for years. When I went to the doctor’s office, I would close my eyes and tell the nurse not to say my weight out loud. I still don’t weigh myself. I don’t own a scale. I only know approximately how much I weigh.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing, I like measurable results. I like to see data about how I’ve improved. Or not. I think it can be really motivational. But only when there’s no mental illness involved in your outcomes.<\/p>\n

Because, for a compulsive overeater\/food addict\/emotional eater\/what-have-you, the absolute worst<\/em> thing you can do is focus on your weight. If you’re trying to heal yourself from obsessive thoughts about food, weighing yourself adds a whole new level of crazy. I know this first-hand. When I used to go on diets, I would think about nothing but food, I would gorge myself on food I hated because it was low in Points<\/a>, and I would scheme how to trick the scale—“Maybe if I take off my earrings before I weigh in, I’ll hit my weight goal.”<\/p>\n

Now I have a new weight goal. It’s called a PR, and I won’t ever see it by stepping on a scale. A PR is a personal record. As in, you pick up more weight than you ever have before.<\/p>\n

You may remember my first attempts at the clean & jerk<\/a> back in late August. I was lifting about 25 lbs. Well, by December 29, I hit a one-rep max of 73 lbs. I hadn’t tried for a new 1RM since. This week’s Open WOD called for clean & jerks…at 110 lbs.<\/em> for females. Ha! I knew I wouldn’t be able to C&J 110 lbs., but I figured it was a good time to find my new 1RM. If I hit 88 pounds, I was fixing to be really happy.<\/p>\n

I worked up to 73, doing three reps at a time. Cake.<\/p>\n

I decided to do one rep at each increment from there on out.<\/p>\n

78. Easy.<\/p>\n

83. No problem.<\/p>\n

88. Fine.<\/p>\n

93. Fail.<\/p>\n

Coaching from Rich…93. Yep.<\/p>\n

95.5. With more coaching from Rich, done.<\/p>\n

98. Rich, coaching, got it.<\/p>\n

100.5. Fail. Rest. Rich, coaching. Cleaned, and motherfucking jerked.<\/p>\n

I tried 103, but I was shot. I did not care. 100.5 pounds! Now I can’t wait to get back in there and lift 103 pounds over my head.<\/p>\n

Why I love CrossFit (with a hat tip to friend and awesome athlete, Nelly<\/a>, and I quote): My “weight goal” is now something that I want to LIFT, as opposed to something I want to BE.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like 95% of females in this country, I have spent a really stupid number of hours of my life fretting about what number would show up when I stepped on a scale. But about eight years ago, when I decided to seek treatment for my food addiction, I started by buying two books, one called … Continue reading Why I Love CrossFit, Part 2<\/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":[13,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call-me-crazy","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head","category-t-m-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","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=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}