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What Makes You Want to Quit CrossFit?

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

If you’ve been doing CrossFit long enough, there have probably been times where you want to quit. Maybe it’s been a particularly tough workout. Or, maybe you got injured. Or, maybe you decided the daily grind is just not worth it anymore.

For me, the only thing that makes me want to quit CrossFit is getting a massage.

My massages are deep tissue massages, and I have a lot of knots in my shoulders.

Lately, my left lat has been super tight.

My massages are painful — super painful. I clench my teeth and bare it because I know it helps. But during the entire massage session, I constantly wonder why I CrossFit.

One day, I’d like to know what a regular massage feels like; the type of massage that actually feels good.

What about you? What makes you wan to quit CrossFit?

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To CrossFit, You MUST Have Short-Term Memory Loss…

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

02325bfd0d415d68ed63fcc1932bd7fd-meaning-of-life-goldfishAs I was lying on the massage table yesterday, clenching my teeth in pain because my glutes are so tight, I asked myself, “Why do I do this to myself?”

Every month I get a massage.

Every month it hurts like hell.

However, every time I walk out the door, I can move again.

But why do I do this?

Normal reaction when telling others you are getting a massage:  “Oh, that’s so great!  I love massages!  They’re so relaxing and feel so good.”

My usual response:  “Not my massages.  They hurt like hell, and I have to get them in order to continue moving.”

Naturally, my thoughts turned to some of the horrible WOD’s we do (we had a couple this week).  Why do I keep doing this to myself?

Then it hit me:  Because I have short term memory loss.

I forget how much my massage hurts by the time my next one rolls around.  I forget how much 17.1 hurt and how I was laid up in bed all weekend with my back sore as hell.  In fact, I am actually hoping we do that one again in this Open so I get a second chance.

Competitions.  The day after you can barely walk.  You’re sore.  You might have torn.  Yet I can’t wait until my next one.

Muscle Activation Therapy.  Hurts like hell.  Yet I can move my arm afterwards.

Therefore, I have concluded we all must have short-term memory loss in order to keep doing CrossFit.  There can be no other logical explanation as to why we do what we do every day.  Why we put our bodies through hell.  Why we show up to the box every day before dawn.  Why we do multiple WOD’s in a day (like I did yesterday).  Why we put up with something tweaked day in and day out.

So keep it up, memory.  Forget the pain and focus instead on how healthy I look in the mirror, how good I feel when I can go on long hikes with my kids, how picking up heavy objects is no big deal, how my home away from home is my box, how I don’t know what I’d do without CrossFit.