CrossFit Boston

You are only competing against yourself.  You might hear the footsteps behind you and feel compelled to run faster.  You could be trying to chase down and finish before the person in front of you.  It may seem as if it is you versus the Crossfit world trying to get the fastest time with the heaviest weight for the most repetitions, but it's just you... you versus you and your times, weights and scores from yesterday.

 

When you are fighting for every last pullup during "Fran" no one is trying to knock you off of the pullup bar.  As you race for 150 wallball shots during the workout "Karen" no one is trying to take the ball from you, or swat it back before it hits the wall.  If Murphy himself could cheer you on for the last mile of a workout God knows he would, but no one is running in the opposite path trying to stop you from the finish line.

 

The person next to you could be stronger, faster, and more agile.  It could be because they worked much harder for a much longer period of time then you could possibly imagine.  It could be because they are "a natural" who was born with the genetic predisposition to become a one man army.  Or maybe the person who flew past you never got their chin over the bar, or did a single honest pushup.  Maybe the score of a person that beat your score was steroid enhanced and drug fueled.  It doesn't matter what someone else does.  It is not you versus them.  It is you versus you.  The goal is not to measure yourself against someone else to make you feel either better or worse about yourself.  The whole point of Crossfit is not to get better at Crossfit.  It is to get better at life.  The goal is to work harder to continually improve yourself, that one day you will surpass any goal you could have dreamed.