Perspective

It's easy to feel down about your workouts when it seems like you're not making much progress, especially when others are making a lot more progress than you. I'm coming up on my three-year anniversary with CrossFit. When I started, I was 20 pounds heavier, lots more depressed, never worked out, yadda yadda yadda. 


When I started, there were a few really good athletes at the box, and some pretty good ones, and a lot of people like me. It seems like when we moved to the newer location, a couple things happened. The coaching became a lot better and higher-caliber athletes started going. So newer women would get the same strength PRs that I would get. Frustrating since I had been working so hard for so long, but whatev. Good for everyone. We're all better now.


I haven't really made any strength gains in a year. BUT I also haven't really changed anything this past year, except now I coach. Have I changed my eating? A little, but not anything crazy. I still work out 4-5 times a week and when we go for strength PRs, I don't really push myself. So maybe it's my fault.


We've been doing at least one benchmark every week and I've been kind of snarky about my gains. But they are gains; I'm not really falling back. In reality, in the past two months, I've set PRs in:

• Fight Gone Bad
• Murph
• 5K run
• 1 mile run
• Jackie
• Helen
• Angie

There may be only a one second gain here and there, but they're gains. 


So if I actually want to do better, I could do a few things.

• Stop comparing myself to other people. There's a lot that happens outside of CrossFit that accounts for our times.
• Do outside work. Lift weights. Get stronger.
• Actually try to run faster, since it seems to be holding me back.
• Work on my squat. It's terrible and once it improves, I think a lot will improve.
• Figure out a way for my hands not to rip open all the time. Gross.