I’ve pretty much always wanted something for nothing. I want to get the job without earning the credential; I want to land the role without auditioning; I want to find my soul mate without leaving my living room.<\/p>\n
That’s not to say I haven’t worked in my life. I have. I’ve worked hard. (Ask me sometime about the three summers in college when I sold books door to door eighty hours a week. Or the unpaid overtime I’ve put in since becoming a teacher.) But I never want to. I always want goods and accomplishments and relationships to land in my lap as I rock in my rocking chair on the deck.<\/p>\n
CrossFit is a constant reminder that, you put nothing in, you get nothing out.<\/p>\n
Sure, I want to be able to do a pull-up without bands. But guess what, I sometimes skip the pull-ups in the warm-up, so pffthpt, I’ve been stuck on the blue and skinny purple bands for months. I’d also like to be able to clean & jerk more than 100.5 lbs, but I haven’t worked on it since that one time<\/a>. So nope.<\/p>\n It goes the other way too, though. You work, you get better.<\/p>\n For one, I’m not sure when it happened, but all of a sudden, after months of push-ups with my hands on a box or my knees on the floor, I just started doing regular push-ups. They’re ugly, but I do them.<\/p>\n Then, Friday night, at open gym, I push-pressed 90.5. I looked back in my notebook. Last recorded one-rep max, back at the beginning of the year: 63 lbs.<\/p>\n And for the longest time, I couldn’t do double-unders. I tried. I would get one or two. I whipped great welts on my arms and legs. I cursed the rope. Four, if I put a single bounce in between<\/a>. I bought a Buddy Lee because I figured the problem was the crappy ropes we have at the gym. The problem was not the crappy ropes we have at the gym. I kept practicing. I took out the single bounce. Last week, I did fifteen legitimate double-unders in a row during the WOD<\/em>.<\/p>\n Why I love\/hate CrossFit: You get exactly as much out of it as you put into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve pretty much always wanted something for nothing. I want to get the job without earning the credential; I want to land the role without auditioning; I want to find my soul mate without leaving my living room. That’s not to say I haven’t worked in my life. I have. I’ve worked hard. (Ask me … Continue reading Nothing for Nothing, or Why I Love CrossFit, Part 4, or Why I Hate 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-2588","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\/2588","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=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}