A conversation I over heard...

Last Spring while I was in Atlanta for Command Fitness Leader School, I was really excited to get the oppurtunity to workout at Crossfit Atlanta ( Home of Chuck Carswell and Mike Giardina, 2 of the level 1 certification staff). When I got there the atmosphere was drentched in comradere and competition. A lot of the elite athletes at the gym had showed up to the 1630 class and I was stoked to get a chance to workout with and compete against Mike G(a games competitor). The WOD was "Nasty Girls" and I PR'd the workout by over 3 minutes. As we all were sitting around rolling out and shooting the shit, a client came over to Mike and said, "Hey coach what are we doing today?". Mike thought for a minute and looked at the client and said, " what are you good at?". The client smiled this big shit eating grin and proceeded to list off all of his best lifts and movements, which was aggresively long. Once he wrapped up his novel of how awsome he was, Coach Mike Looked at him and said,"Wow thats awesome, But we are going to do none of that shit today!". The clients smile abruptly went to frown town and a look of crushing defeat came over him. As that was going on I thought to myself, We are always eager and willing to get in the gym and do what we are good at or know what we can excel at, but we are reluctent to come to the gym when the WOD is somthing that will take us out of our comfort zone or it is somthing we know we struggle with. And that my friends is what seperates the "Champs from the Chumps". The best of the best look at the WOD and see somthing they are struggling with and get a fucking training boner and attack it with all they got. And they will keep doing it until that weakness becomes a strength. This is what we all must do. It is what we HAVE to do if we want to get better. So please come to the gym and give it your all even if the WOD is not suited to your strengths. You will get better, you will get stronger and you will get faster. The best accomplishments in life are the ones you have to work REALLY hard for to achieve! Don't waste a day, Don't waste an opportunity to get better! Don't walk away from this competition or any of them for that matter with "coulda, woulda, shoulda". Because if you shoulda and coulda, YOU WOULDA!!!