Here it is: The 2 Things That Instantly Happen To You (and has happened to me) When Beginning CrossFit
1. You will realize how weak you are. Once you're looking at the prescribed WOD written on the board or posted on the website, you immediately start hearing the little "devil" who's sitting on your shoulder and talks to you, makes up excuses and way around the hard path, you immediately know how much of a butch you are. With time you realize that the only person you need to beat in a workout is that inner voice that's talking all the shit, that if you believe, you quit. And it's hard. That inner "devil" shouts so hard at the bottom of each thuster that you must be a BADASS each and every time to defeat it. The only way to beat it is to stay present, ENJOY(!) the moment, and visualize NOT dropping the bar and just keep it going. As soon as in you're head you've quit it's over.
2. You will realize how strong you are. You will find that you barely knew yourself at all before. That you didn't have a clue about what really made you tick, your own elemental motivations and desires. In the heat of battle, , you will reach inside of yourself and go to that next level. When you realize that you are 80% of the way through a particularly punishing workout, you will dig deep and find what you need to get through to the other side and beat your own little "devil". It's there, and maybe you haven't had to access it in years or even decades, but when you finally do... from then on you are a BEAST. There is an apotheosis underway. And on the other side of an experience like that (or a series of them), you are a lot LESS HESITANT to step into the breach. You have gained a knowledge or in some cases, a remembrance of yourself and what you're capable of. I pity the person, in life or in business or whatever, who dares to face off against you once this has taken place. The inner "devil" you've gotta beat is the same in every situations, but now you can fight it and defeat it.
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