Article number 2 in the series about health by Kai Rainey
You’ve almost decided to try CrossFit.
You’ve picked out the gym. You’ve been to the website to get familiar with the trainers. Maybe you even walked past during a class and admired what appears to be choreographed chaos.
You have one step left, and it’s through the front door.
I know you have a dozen reasons why you think you can’t do it. Running and jumping aren’t in your wheelhouse at present. You’ve surmised that those things appear regularly in CrossFit, as do pull-ups and burpees. A voice is telling you that you can’t do it.
But I know another voice is urging you to try CrossFit—and you need to listen.
One thing is certain: If you don’t try it, you definitely won’t create the body you envision. The path to that body—that healthy, capable and fit body—runs directly away from your sofa.
I know exactly how you feel.
The first day I walked into CrossFit, I was so obese I couldn’t jump. At all. My body wasn’t capable of creating enough force to propel myself even an inch into the air.
I felt like an imposter.
If you are worried that you’ll stand out because of your lack of fitness, I have a secret to share with you:
CrossFit humbles everyone daily.
This is not a secret inside the CrossFit community. Ask the fittest person at your new gym about his or her first workout. You’ll hear stories about not finishing, almost puking and being shocked about how much harder it was than it looked.
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