Each and every day that we face is full of potential excuses.
Excuses for why we’re late, excuses for why we’re tired, excuses for why we can’t seem to stick to our eating plan. Even if you wake up with the best of intentions in a fabulous mood, often things will happen throughout the day that become excuses you use later on; excuses why you’re grouchy with your kids, excuses why you don’t start writing that university paper when you should, excuses why you want to skip the gym and hit the couch.
We all play mind games with ourselves, so there’s no shame in it. But what are YOUR excuses for not being healthy? What do you tell yourself when you’re convincing yourself you don’t want to come to CrossFit?
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Think about it, and share with us in the comments so we can all help hold you accountable!
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Today’s Workout:
Buy In – Play time! Make sure that you are warm before class because we are going to play around with the ropes and rolls on the mats (10-15 minutes)
WOD – “Daffodil Rainbow Ride of Joy and Delight”
6 rounds for individual time of:
•8 hang squat snatch (65/95)
•250m row
•Clock set on a 4 minute timer, each round begins on each successive 4 minute period (i.e. the faster you work, the more rest you get!)
*** Record your score as you would for Tabata intervals – your slowest time is your score!
Zone 4: Scale snatches to 55/75
Zone 3: Scale snatches to 45/65
Zone 2: Scale snatches as needed, scale row to 200m
Zone 1 – scale as needed
GAMES PREP: Scale up snatches (ONLY if can do them smoothly and quickly) to 75/115, 300m row
Cash Out – MWOD – 58 Hamstring pain
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"I'm tired." Usually it's just mental fatigue, and by time I've done the buy in I'm jazzed and ready to go!
DUDE! I was just watching channel 18 (King Network) and this commercial just came on….I started seeing flashes of people doing CrossFit type workout moves, and I paid more attention. I finally realized what I was seeing when the screen flashed 'THE SPORT OF FITNESS HAS ARRIVED. REEBOK CROSSFIT." See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAu-ftOM3C8
Craaaazy! CrossFit has a commercial on public television now! Who ever would have thought… Not sure how I feel about it, actually. But still cool.
(read more here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120113005…
Allan told me that he saw a Reebok commercial while watching the NFL game on the weekend but I couldn't find it.
I saw it on the biggest loser Tuesday night. I’m with you bones, not sure how I feel about it. But D it will be good for buisness.
Biggest Loser ! Ohhhh Kournikova… want to touch the hiney
http://gawker.com/5876497/crossfit-is-over
Commercials. Biggest Loser trainers. What next? Is it over? Has it all gone too far?
i'll have to agree with Adam. Usually if I am uninterested in doing something i try and start on it and hopefully that gets me going on it.
Something i am making excuses on lately is Nutrition. I have been wanting to get in the habit of preparing meals (lunches, snacks mainly) for a few days so all i have to do is grab them and go. I also wanted to start journaling what i am eating to ensure that I am eating enough (i don't think i am for my activity level). For what ever reason, i cannot adhere to my plan. so i skip lunches and get frustrated with myself.
sorry for the rant…
My biggest excuse lately is I am either too cold to even move from being in the gym or have been there all day and just want to go home.
I blame my work schedule. And if I've been off working out for a few days I get into a rut where I feel hesitant to go back – and not super amped when I'm there (read this as kinda whimpy and whiney). I need to be able to think outside the box and do some living room wods (or just plain push ups) just to keep my blood flowing and to feel better about EVERYTHING!
I'm also type-casting myself… that seems weird to say but I keep using my goats as excuses. (ie. weak upper body so I can't do pull ups well etc). Or I'm used to being an accurate athlete (rhythmic gymnastics is more about finesse & precision) than max pain/power out put… but that just limits me.
Great name for the wod. Whoever came up with that one is a bloody genius.
It's so good that a team of up to two people probably came up with it.
That person is so sweet! They really caught the essence of what this wod is all about.
Hey Dan!
I still have the list you and Craiggers gave me for naming wods… this was my favorite though so I had to find an appropriate one to attach it to. Definitely some intense rowing intervals and squat snatches make me think of joy, delight, AND rainbows 🙂
Hope you're well budday
My excuses are varied, but they always seem to pop up whenever I have taken a couple days off – often I feel nervous to return to the gym, even if I've only taken 3 or 4 days off to recharge. I just have to remind myself that it's so worth it to go, even if the workout feels more killer than usual.
I could alphabetically categorize my excuses!! They seem to be limitless these days which is always from a combination of fatigue (mental and physical), work schedule, injury and fear. Why the fear?.. after a couple years of training, I still don't fully comprehend it. Like most people, I come with the hope that if I am making excuses for myself, just get in the door and do what needs to be done, and I am almost always thankful I did it. Bottom line is to decide, each person unique to their own well- being, whether you truly need a rest day or you just need to walk in the door and experience what you may have been dreading because it just might not suck, it might just be what was needed to make you feel better! However, I did not once see rainbows and daffodils during this WOD today- and when was the joy and delight supposed to appear??