Self improvement reflections: Crossfitting has improved my fitness, health, strenght and confidence.

Self discovery reflections: When I wake up, I jump out of bed and choose not to have negative thoughts such as, “Why am I getting up so early? why not sleep in today? is this making a difference? I’ll go tomorrow”. Instead I choose to quiet my mind and make it to the gym because I know it is good for me. This process has made a huge difference in choosing positive thoughts during the day. The endorphins help too!

Personally I don’t really care what my times are .. I get alot of satisfaction from just completing these workouts .. everyone knows how hard they are.

I’ve learned alot along the way about my stregnths and weaknesses, and honestly the best times at the gym ARE the one’s where I will be crap scared of doing something and do it anyway.

I’ve never honestly felt like a workout is going to “suck” … there has been maybe two times I have been at the gym in a bad mood .. and left thinking .. “that sucked” a day when I should have probably taken a rest day. I think xfitters are maybe harder on ourselves?? When people ask me about my workout .. they just stare at me like I’m nuts .. yet .. we are continually pushing ourselves to the next level.

I don’t think my thoughts run along the line of “this is going to suck” but more along the lines of “crap, he’s really going to make me do that!!”

Training as self-improvement: “Doing these 20 rep squats will increase my strength endurance”

Training as self-discovery: “Doing these 20 rep squats will test my will power, and when I complete them successfully, I’m going to prove that I have power over those self-defeating thoughts that tend to creep up in my head”

Which type of conversation takes place most often in your head on a training day? Or do most of yours sound like:

“This is going to suck”

“This is also going to suck”

“That really sucked”

Nothing wrong with the first (“self-improvement”). Nothing wrong with the second (“self discovery”). Nothing wrong with the third…. but you might find your training takes off a lot faster, and you might even have more fun in the gym, when you more regularly consciously adopt either the first or second.

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