Sunday Story…The Thrill of Victory

By now you may have done the first 2 CrossFit Open workouts. You may be pleasantly surprised or vastly disappointed, or both! This is one of the best things about testing yourself like this. You get to see both the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

If you found yourself staring down a skill you didn’t have before, and went ahead and tried it and discovered you had it or almost had it, you should celebrate that. And decide now you are going to do what you need to do so next time that skill pops up you can own it. Maybe you will need some personal training lessons. Maybe you will need to dedicate 5 or 10 or 15 minutes of practice every day or week to dial in that skill.

Maybe you found out your conditioning was weak in one area or another. What’s your plan to improve that? Here’s an example from my own discovery. Yesterday, on 25.2, I discovered my conditioning while doing thrusters was weak (that’s being nice, it sucked). It’s not surprising, given the fact that I have kept my intensity exceptionally low over the last 3 months. If I want to improve, I am going to have to change what I am doing a little bit. I need to add some intensity around moving weight fast once or twice a week.

By the way, this is a life lesson. If you want something different, you need to do something different to get a different result. You can’t solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it.

So, look at your results and make a plan to do better in the future.

 

John Mariotti

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