This day is reflective for me since it has been 14 years since my Mom passed away and as always my first words after waking up are to wish her a Happy Mothers' Day. The morning was sunny and beautiful a perfect setting for a fun group CrossFit WOD at the box. The team work amongst the partners and the teams was stellar, especially the group bonus air squats at the end. Camaraderie filled the air which reminded me of an article I read this week by a Navy Seal, Lt. Cmdr. Greitens . The personalities of a Navy Seal and a CrossFitter are fairly similar.
Excerpts from Greitens article in the WSJ: "Some men who seemed impossibly weak at the beginning of SEAL training - men who puked on runs and had trouble with pull-ups - made it." "Some men who were visibly afraid, sometimes to the point of shaking, made it to." "Almost all the men who survived possessed one common quality. Even in great pain, faced with the test of their lives, they had the ability to step outside of their own pain, put aside their own fear and ask: How can I help the guy next to me?" "They also had a heart large enough to think about others, to dedicate themselves to a higher purpose."
How many times have you felt like a Seal in training based on the above? Puke bucket after Cindy - Thinking I will never get a kipping pull-up - Looking at a box jump as if it as tall as a mountain. However what I see every day within the PUSH511 community is that no matter how bad someone is feeling they are always calling out to their fellow CrossFitter.
One of our workouts this past week was Michael, named in honor of Michael McGreevy who died in 6/05 at the age of 30. Michael was a Navy Seal who died when his helicopter crashed in the vicinity of Asadabad, Afghanistan. Ironic timing for the workout based on the Navy Seals doing their job at a compound in Asadabad a few days earlier.
Always remember the Heroes during your workout and CrossFit like a Navy Seal!
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