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| Life is better with friends that 'get' you. Also a great CF box. |
When I informed the gym owners that I was going to have to take a month off due to having a mere $4 in my bank account, they responded by cutting the price by half-off the regular membership! Either enrollment is down (which seems odd, since it's resolution time) or they like me. Weird.
I'm sore around the middle from doing 150 Sit Ups without pausing on Wednesday as part of my initial fitness assessment for the diary Coworker K got for me. I could have done a few more for max reps, but I wasn't feeling it. They weren't weighted, so I pounded them out fairly quickly and with no difficulty. I guess the December challenge (which I failed, by the way with only 2,200 weighted Sit Ups) really did improve my core strength. I still feel like my back needs some improvement though, since my Push Ups and associated movements feel 'wobbly' in the back. I'm limp I tell you!
Anyway, I took a short lunch today in order to scoot over to the 5:30 session at the box and pay my (much diminished!) dues to the people that have helped me come so far. My friend "I" is out of town and will not be there. 5:30 is his usual time, and so I tend to avoid going since my CrossFit experience is turning out to be quite a personal thing for me (is that weird?) and I suspect I'd be a little uncomfortable if my friend saw me in that position. I prefer my friends to only see me when I'm relatively put-together and not A) fighting through some dirty, sweaty workout or B) breaking down and crying while doing lunges. Those moments are for me.
I was talking to "I" the other day though, and after last Wednesday's WOD, Victoria* (I obviously wasn't there that day, having not paid my dues and being busy with cooking and eating ALL THE THINGS.), he texted me to tell me he'd had a breakthrough/breakdown workout day. He's referring to a situation similar to what happened to me back during the 12/19/12 WOD, where he pushed his body to the edge of his endurance, and then overcame the WOD. He walked out of the gym and had a good hard emotional cry and some deep thoughts about his life and all the rest. I felt for him. I understood what he meant when he quoted, "Resolve says, 'I will,' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying." (Jim Rohn) (He didn't quote the whole thing in a text, just the part about waving or dying, but I knew what he meant, haha.) I was proud of him for pushing himself, as he's already so darned fit that it's not easy to break him. I was deeply glad that I'm not the only one who has an emotional connection with my fitness.
I asked a few other friends yesterday if they'd ever worked out to the point of crying or had any emotional or mental catharsis that kinda 'changed' them. I hear about how some people run to get away from things or clear their head, and that seems common, but no one else said that they feel the same way I do about working out. They do it because they have to, or because they have always been athletes or because they've got something to train for, or because they want to change their bodies.
I want to keep meeting people who feel something about their workouts. I want to be part of a community that is mentally, physically, and emotionally invested in understanding their bodies and expecting the most of themselves. I think I'm on the right track to finding these people and this community with CrossFit. <3
*Victoria:
5 Rounds for Time
-10 Thrusters (Rx: 95 male / 65 female)
-14 Box Jumps (24/20)
-12 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls (95/65)
-12 Burpees
-27 Kettlebell Swings (1.5/1 Pood)
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