151202 - CrossFit | One Weird Trick to Building a Solid Community

CrossFit has has a broad-ranging appeal right out the gate for a number of people. The sweaty hardbodies doing amazing things in the name of fitness has a primal appeal to many. Watching Rich Froning or Sam Briggs crush events in the CrossFit Games and their seeming every-day joe appearance and personas lure people into our doors. But, not everyone actually sticks with it. They peter off. And I have an idea why. 

You're forced daily to look into a mirror of constructive criticism and hard numbers that point out your flaws, and no one is safe. 

The people that can handle that level of self-reflective honesty are few and far between. And, it works as a participant filter for those who cannot.

The people that stick with it are easy to like and form strong bonds with each other through mutually experienced suffering. They laugh and joke at their flaws with a dogged determination to come in tomorrow and the next day to fix them. This builds camaraderie and community in ways few outside MIL/LE and Fire experience. 

For the others, the constant reminder that they're imperfect, or have been told all their lives that they're exceptional and that, in this case they're not, find the door of their own accord, and that's too bad.

Because we all have flaws, but in here, with time, they're fixable. 

Warm-up
2 rounds WODders, 1 round SS
Down and back
2 x jog
Side shuffle
Carioca (grapevine)
Backwards jog
Side shuffle
Carioca

WOD 1
20 PVC pass throughs then
EMOM 7:
3 position snatch
High hang, Mid hang, Low hang

WOD 2
3 sets max reps, :90 between rounds
order is important, start point is not. 
:60 row
:60 dumbbell push press
:60 box jumps
:60 squats
:60 burpees

SS
Back squat
10E, 5, 3, 3, 1
Bench press
10E, 5, 3, 3, 1
Deadlift
10E, 5, 3, 3, 1