What is Fitness?

If CrossFit has done one thing right it is that they have defined fitness for us like no one before them. IWCABTAMD. Prepared for the unknown and the unknowable. Those are two of CrossFit models for defining fitness. Sean Waxman ( http://www.purestrength.com/ ) a national level Olympic lifter and one of the best coaches for his sport around said it this way " All the matters is that you are stronger and more powerful today than you were yesterday" So for CrossFit what it comes down to is Performance. We don't care what your VO2 max is your resting heart rate or your blood pressure. ( these are the things that the industry judges health/fitness by) what we care about is that you can run faster, jump higher, throw farther, and lift more than you could when you started. That is it. Any definition of Fitness seem incomplete but this seems to be as close as any one has come ( I will expand waxmans quote) " that you can do more today than you could yesterday." In the end then Fitness or "being Fit" is not a goal but a process. There is no end point, as I have told others before "it never gets easier." Yes you can set goals along the way, and you should. You should set measurable, achievable goals but when you reach thos goals it does not mean that you are now fit, because rememeber all that matters is that "today you can do more than you could yesterday." So every second you take off your time on one of the girls, ever pound more you lift ever extra rep for max rep pull-ups is simply a step in the right direction.