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I have never wanted to be average in anything I do; nor have I ever considered myself an average thinker. Even as a child I could tell I thought about things differently than most others. Whenever any type of personality test or trait typing has come up, I inevitably find myself in the least represented category. I was never quite sure what to make of that. But I do know that I can learn a great deal from others, just the same as others can learn a great deal from me. I think that is the real purpose of those tests; to show that we’re all different and have unique ways of making sense of the world and our place in it. Sure the analytical minds may be better suited to engineering, just as a more creative mind may be better suited as a musician or artist, but those are very shallow conclusions. I think the point is to take a look at yourself in the mirror every now and again and understand that you will face challenges because of your way of thinking, but also encounter great opportunities because of it.
Surely, you often hear the saying “live life to the fullest” or “live every day as if it were your last”, but what does that even mean? If what I stated above is true, then it will mean very different things to different people. It cannot be that literal. I cannot fit all those bucket list items into a single day, let alone every day. Does it simply mean living from day to day, not worrying about the future and always trying to live in the moment? I’m not sure, but there can certainly be happiness found in that way of living.There is a quote I came across years ago where the author is on a train moving through a remote area of China thinking: “wow, this would be great to do again with a loved one, or when I have more money”, when it dawned on him that the reality is that he will likely never be in that place again and to do his best to experience it THEN. The author and exact verbatim elude me, but the message is clear. Stop looking for situations to be perfect next time around, because life doesn’t happen that way, happiness is not achieved that way. Happiness is not a destination, it’s not something you can find on a map or a calendar. It’s in every moment of every day for the people who choose to be in that moment.
- Don’t ever limit yourself because of age. Life is all downhill after __ right? No. It’s not. That’s for everyone else. Be the exception, not the rule.
- Find something you love and do it. Make time for it no matter what. You don’t always have to like what others like or be what you think they want. And no, you are never to busy to do what you love.
- Don’t make excuses and don’t complain. Nobody wants to hear it and it makes you sound victimized. Even if that is the case, take a page out of Ghandi’s book.
- Have patience and be forgiving. This may be a funny example, but I always admire my dog’s ability to forgive. No matter how mad I could ever be at her, the very moment I say “it’s okay” she darts up and licks my face and wants nothing but for everything to be okay. We could all take a lesson from this (minus the face licking).
- Education isn’t a fancy piece of paper with your name on it. Stagnating in becoming uneducated.
By Jay Rhodes
Every week, we will be posting a workout programmed by our scientists specially grown for challenging the best of the best.
Here you will find fresh programming, interesting WODs and WODs that will groom you to be a better athlete. Post your times to the comments and compare your results with others.
Checkout the latest WOW right here or find the link form at the front of CompWOD.com
As athletes, we are designed and driven to keep going, to never give up and to always deny failure. We want to push further, be stronger, get better, right here and right now. The hardest part of training tends to be the sitting, the resting, the waiting, the wishing. We can push our bodies to the absolute end, and yet our fitness never seems to be quite where we would like it to be. We can push, push, push, but whether our bodies actually respond to the hell we put it through, that is the real test.
Training takes time and it takes patience. Yes, absolutely, in the moment you want to drive, and push and curse and bleed, and that’s just perfect. That is the right attitude you need in the moment, because that might be what gets you through your workout.
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We are inviting 12 men and 12 women. Invitations for those spots will be going out shortly via email. If you think that you’ve been missed, we’re providing a way for you to prove it! We will have additional spots for 3 men and 3 women.
Once all the invitations have gone out, we will be hosting an open style competition where you can submit videos (YouTube) for 3 WODs that we will be announcing. A video is best, but if you do not have a camera available, get your affiliate to vouch for your results.
For the first WOD:
3 Ground-to-Overhead @ 185/115
6 Handstand Pushups
9 Toes to Bars
Amrap 15 mins.
Post total reps.
Send all submissions to info@compwod.com. Update to date submissions will be viewable on CompWOD.com
PS. There will be cash prizes for the winners.
I have been exercising one way or another since before I can remember. I grew up athletic, I was involved in sports at a very young age, and it has become a large part of my life. There may have been a path of athleticism defined for me from the beginning and the reason I continued to enjoy sports and exercise may be in my DNA, but along the years I have had a wide variety of reasons that I get up in the morning and head to the gym. My parents were the reason I started t-ball, my enjoyment of the game helped me decide to join softball, baseball, basketball, swimming as I got older, but things change. Around the age of 14 or 15, the enjoyment of ongoing organized sports started to subside. That was it for team sports, I’d had enough. I’d been doing it for 10+ years and I needed a change. That wasn’t the end of exercise, it was the end of team play. My focus has shifted to lifting weights at the gym. (more…)
I’m sure almost every one of us has heard wonderfully amazing stories of miraculous feats of strength occurring throughout the folklore of our lives. I can fondly remember as far back as a child, hearing stories of mothers wrestling their children away from polar bears or lifting cars off of their young ones in a heroic effort. This was, as always dismissed by many as horse shit, or, simply stories to be told around the campfire.
Today, in the age of the internet, you can in fact realize that these things are not only possible, but actually commonplace. In 2006 in Tucson, Ariz , Tim Boyle watched as a Camaro hit 18-year-old Kyle Holtrust. The car pinned Holtrust, still alive, underneath. Boyle ran to the scene of the accident and lifted the Camaro off the teenager, while the driver of the car pulled him to safety.
In 1982, in Lawrenceville, Georgia , Angela Cavallo lifted a 1971 Chevy Impala from her son, Tony, after it fell off the jacks that had held it up while he worked underneath the car. Mrs. Cavallo lifted the car high enough and long enough for two neighbors to replace the jacks and pull Tony from beneath the car. (more…)
A company, designed by Crossfitter’s, for Crossfitter’s.
Here at CompWOD.com, we endeavor to encourage the “best of the best” to not only to compete and compare times virtually; but not unlike the Spartans, in the brutal arena of Regional and National competition as well.
CompWOD.com is dedicated to making people better in their (and our) wonderful sport of choice, CrossFit.
We foster this environment not only by encouraging the top flight CrossFitter’s in your region to post results based on our weekly creative and highly challenging competition style WODS, but also by hosting a series of local, Regional and National competitions, all geared towards our greatest resource, our athletes.
Our goal and passion has always been, to help athletes prepare for actual CrossFit competition by gearing our programming to help hopeful athletes “hone their game” for the brutal and extremely challenging days of Regional, Sectionals and Box-to-Box competitions.
We’ve also worked hard, to help you, let the world know how awesome you are, or are going to be, or how much harder you’re going to have to work to get your name at the very top of the coveted CompWOD.com white board!
Slick programming and flawless operation are our company mandates, and we will not settle for anything less.
Thanks!
The CompWOD.com Team
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Furthermore; we will be kicking off our Tournament of Champions, in mid-November. This invitation only event, will gather the absolute finest athletes in the GTA, to end any speculation as to who is, the “best of the best”.
A free event for those invited to compete, with a large cash prize, and with all proceeds to charity is just one small step to kick things off!
More details to come in the next few weeks!
So welcome aboard, it’s going to be an outstanding ride.
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