Sunday Story...This is the Week

The Open begins. Every Friday for the next 3 weeks we will do the Open workout. It will be fun and interesting (that’s an understatement).

There is a lot to be said about testing your fitness with your classmates as well as worldwide. We don’t need to do it every day or month. But occasionally, we should put it all out there. This is that chance.

It doesn’t matter if you are just starting out or if this will be your tenth Open. What matters is that you put forth full effort. What matters is that you test the limits of what You can do.

Every workout will present challenges. Maybe the prescribed weight will be too much, or the skill is not in your repertoire. It doesn’t matter, there will be scaling options available. CrossFit always puts out a scaled version of the workout as well as something they call foundations. Keep in mind that, at the end of the day you are doing this for yourself not for anyone else. Do it this year and then next year you can compare!

If I am being honest with myself, I suspect I will be doing some workouts in the scaled division. There are just too many places where my current physical limitations force me into non-prescribed movements. And that’s Ok. It indicates where my fitness is at this moment. And that is what we want to know.

I leave you with this familiar quote from Mahatma Gandhi::

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

See you on the leaderboard!

John Mariotti

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