“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
- Aristotle
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Whenever I think I have reached the limit of what I am capable of, I find that if I am pushed, I can always dig down a little deeper. I have the power to amaze myself when I dig down a little deeper. The mind gives out long before the body, so I have embarked on a path of strengthening my will and practicing digging deeper. I am beginning Crossfit.
I don’t have a Crossfit box gym nearby so I am doing it in my own garage/yard/home. When I feel tired and think, “I need a break.” I remind myself, “You don’t need a break. You want a break. Keep going!”
I am not very far into doing crossfit. In fact, I have done a single WOD (Workout of the Day). I am starting with the crossfit warmup (CFWU):
- 2 min light cardio
- 30 seconds per side samson stretch
2 rounds of (working up to 3 rounds):
- 10 pushups
- 10 situps
- 10 pullups
- 10 dips
- 10 squats
- 10 back extensions
That’s just the warmup.
I doubt that I will get into the heavy, olympic lifting. I don’t have the equipment to do it or the storage space for the equipment. I also don’t want to hurt myself by lifting without some sort of instruction. I do have some rocks that need to be moved around, a yard that needs leveled, and garden dirt that needs shoveled.
For the next two weeks I’ll be doing the CFWU X2 as pre-conditioning before I launch into planning WOD’s. As I get time, I am working on incorporating the Zone Diet into my eating. (Wouldn’t that be a good topic, Backpacking in the Zone.) Maybe someday I will get to go to an official Crossfit boot camp at an official crossfit affiliate gym. For now, I am just want to keep up with my 1 1/2 year old.
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