Now it’s my turn
This time the magic of the voice is mine. As you’ve noticed lately, I have been taking quotes from an awesome linguist in the CrossFit community, Lisbeth Darsh. I don’t just throw those up there for shits and giggles. I look for messages that I believe, and hope, will resonate within the walls of our home here at CFSV and within yourselves. It’s important to keep the meaning true to who you are and what you hope to accomplish. So here goes nothing, everything.
Disclaimer: This may make absolutely no sense to anyone, or it may hit real close to home. Either way I hope you enjoy!
Last night two polar opposite things happened to me. One physical and one emotional. I went out to dinner with one of my best friends and over the course of 15 minutes I felt like my stomach was going to explode. Having come off a recent bout of Noro Virus, I didn’t want to fuck around with this sensation again. So I admitted myself into the ER of a local hospital. Physicians and nurses discussed my diet (They weren’t going to win that battle), and the pain subsided after a less than deserving exam worth $100, so I walked out and went home.
[Rewind 30 min]
During the time at dinner where I felt my stomach was ballooning, my buddy had asked me to be one of his Groomsmen for his Wedding coming up in September (I look great in a tux). I have known this kid and his Fiance’ for a long time, and needless to say, this felt like a true honor and privilege to have been asked. It FELT awesome; however, the expression on my face was not conducive to my happiness.
CrossFit is an incredible vessel of awesomeness. It has the power of strengthening ourselves to the point where our health and wellness are ON POINT. We begin to understand what we are capable of as human beings which gives us the confidence to move forward in ANY aspect of our lives. With that being said, you never want to put it above the people who helped you get here. The ones who provided encouragement and understood why your body is numero uno on the priority list. CrossFit is a huge part of my life but I try not to let it define who I am.
When presented with the opportunity of being my friend’s Groomsman, I was not thinking about my max Deadlift or what my WOD was going to be the next day; I was really really stoked to know that he considers me close enough to be a part of his big day. And that my friends is something you can’t scale, that’s something there is no RX for. THAT is the feeling of genuine and sincere happiness.
Drum roll please….
As a coach my ultimate goal is to instil the qualities of CrossFit in you, that I believe to be most important. These are not physical qualities, although I do get fucking amped when I hear you dropped pant sizes or lost another chunk of weight you were aiming for, set a PR etc.. These are the qualities that help build community, help strengthen relationships [Loyalty, Commitment, Perseverance, Compassion, Kindness] These are the qualities that I hope you see in me and as an extension of CrossFit Somerville. Thank you all for giving me perspective.
WOD:
“Nasty Girls”
3 rounds
50 Squats
7 muscle ups
10 hang power cleans (135/95)
Yosh, this is fucking awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Congrats on the honor, Yosh – that is truly a great feeling. And I’m loving the gym you’ve created. 🙂
Enjoyed trying (highly, highly modified) muscle ups today for the first time. There are way too many things to try to remember the first time one tries some of these moves. Dante picked it up really quickly, and Marcos showed us our goal – Olympics style! great 5:30 class this morning…
Hillary, very kind of you! And nice job this morning!
But, regarding the Olympics style, I was very frustrated of getting stuck at the last muscle-up! It took me almost a minute to do just the last one! It was more a mental issue than anything else. As Mandy told me to focus on the technique, I made it. Thanks Mandy!
Yosh, thanks for this post!
11:52, I think. I didn’t feel real strong this morning, so I went light on the cleans (95#). It was a fun one.
And I left my arm warmers there!
excuse me? Leg warmers?
What was that? Arm warners.
I’m finally back to 100% after the rib-thing. w00t!
12:14 with only 65# (I cleaned last night, too, and last night was my first time cleaning post-injury, so I wanted to be careful) and red-banded-dippies plus kipping-pull-ups instead of MUs. Man I want a real muscle-up sooooooo bad! It’s going to happen by the end of June…I just know it. 🙂
All 3 sets of squats were unbroken, which is a HUGE PR for me. 🙂
PS – I also love our little community. 🙂
I love having a place where I feel safe (dare I say empowered! and I don’t think I’ve ever used that word before) to take risks where I am likely to fail. I love that failing isn’t a mark of failure at all, but rather a measure of where my current progress is along the continuum of awesomeness.
I love that everyone I work out with is a friend, whether we’ve known each other for 5 months or 5 minutes. We’re all in it together regardless of our pasts and what the other 23 hours of our days look like. It’s so nice to have a “breakfast-club team” in your back pocket at all times. <3
well said Lynn! (yes, I’m still stalking the blog from Vermont!)
awww! I miss you! Seriously, you are the nicest person ever….and it meant soooooo much to me to have someone from Fenway say nice things to me about myself. Yosh copy/pasted something about “just one person to give a shit” a week or so ago…and you were TOTALLY that person for me on more than one occasion. <3
I agree–the community is fabulous. Thank you for making me feel so comfortable as a newbie!
I seriously enjoy seeing you guys all have fun, establishing relationships with one another. Awesome to see! You guys create a venue that facilitates so much positive growth.
It helps that you’re pretty radtastic, and super friendly….and I just know that once you get back into your game you’re going to not only be suuuper badass, but you’re going to teach me fun tricks (I do love new tricks!). 🙂