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Love is a lot like CrossFit. They are both intoxicating creations we can use to enhance our lives, they both take a lot of work, and they both hurt.
And just like love, we rely too much on someone else for our own happiness. From the beginning, just like a new loving relationship, we expect CrossFit to cure all our pain. We expect the community to solve all our problems. We think it will do the work for us.
When it doesn’t, we blame love itself, we blame our lover, we blame CrossFit.
I really thought about this the other day when someone had reached out to me saying her husband had joined a CrossFit box six months back and he loved it, “he couldn’t get enough,” she said.
However, when she finally drummed up the courage to join her first class; she hated it. She went back for more, weeks became months and CrossFitting became routine, and still, she hated it.
To me, a CrossFitter, that was like fitness blasphemy.
Now I totally get the outsiders hating CrossFit, after all, we are pretty aggressive from their standpoint. I can even grasp a newbie’s dislike after their first workout or two, sore and intimidated somehow doesn’t do that experience justice.
But this girl, someone who had been at it routinely for months, how could that be. “What were your expectations of CrossFit when you started?,” I asked her.
“I wanted to get in shape, but I didn’t think it would be this hard,” she said. “I didn’t think I would have to go almost everyday, or that people would cheer me on, or that anyone would want me to change my diet.”
When some of us show up at CrossFit’s door, we expect the world. And just like love, that always ends badly.
It’s not that CrossFit stops working, it’s that some unfortunate humans never give it a chance too. Even the best fitness program on the planet, with the most supportive community cannot overcome our unrealistic expectations for it. For that, even CrossFit will fail.
CrossFit’s not going to pay your mortgage for you, and it’s not going to instantly make you hate cheesecake no matter what your friends have told you.
It’s going to become one of the most powerful weapons you have against the crap life can throw at you. It’s going to make things possible that weren’t possible before. And if you start out expecting it to be hard, but worth it, it’s always going to surprise with it’s rewards.
Sometimes changing your fate is as simple as changing your expectations. We never said it would be easy, but oh is it worth it.
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