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What Can You Learn from Training to Become an Elite Athlete?
They say it takes 30 days to form a habit and 90 days to change your life, especially when it comes to health and wellness.
Eleven weeks ago I started a new habit of going to CrossFit 3-days-on, 1-day rest, which meant I was working out 5-to-6 times a week, showing up to the evening classes during the week, and somehow making it to the 8am classes on Saturday and Sunday. My non-gym social life was on probation, but my gym life had never been better.
- Learning how to do a handstand in a skirt, however, is extra. (Struting my stuff at “Goin’ for Broken” 24 Hours of LeMons at Thunderhill Raceway in California)
Last weekend was the CrossFit Regional Competition, which was the reason for the crazy workout in the first place. I didn’t make the affiliate team for my gym, but here’s what I got out of the competition:
How to establish a goal, and meet it
A year ago I met a woman who competed in a weightlifting competition in Canada, which technically made her an international competitor. This woman was probably twenty years older than me and did not have the body of a stereotypical athlete by any means. But she was strong and humble about her accomplishment. I don’t know if she placed, ranked, or even finished, but she showed up and competed (in spandex nonetheless). At that moment, I had a fleeting thought―I, too, want to be a weightlifting competitor. I race cars, so why not add this to the list?
On Becoming an Elite Athlete: The 40 WOD Challenge, CrossFit Games, and Me
If you were to find 13-year-old-me and tell me that as an adult, I’d be training to become an elite athlete, I would not believe you.
If you were to find me six months ago and say the same thing, I wouldn’t believe you either.
But I am.
At the end of February I volunteered at the 2010 Washington Sectionals for the CrossFit Games. Spending the weekend watching elite athletes in action changed my entire outlook on CrossFit.
This is what I saw:
2010 Washington State CrossFit Sectionals from Jeremy Grubaugh on Vimeo.
Claim to fame: yours truly makes a split-second appearance 16 seconds into the video.
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