Convenience
When I was in college I had an economics class that was on the 8th floor of a 10 story building that housed hundreds of classrooms and labs. The class was at 9am on M,W,F, so it was an extremely busy time and the lobby was always packed with students trying to get on one of the six elevators. Within a couple of days I grew tired of waiting in line to get on an elevator. Even more frustrating was being on a packed elevator, only to find that at least half of the people were only going up one floor, two at the most, all of which were perfectly healthy young adults! I vowed never to take elevator and took to the stairs from then on. Walking up the eight flights of stairs was boring, so I began to sprint them each day. I also began timing myself, trying to beat my best time on each attempt. Soon I began bringing less and less to class in an attempt to break one minute from bottom to top. My morning stair sprint was far more important to me than the class that awaited. This was long before my CrossFit days, but each time I sprinted up those stairs I always got a since of accomplishment for choosing, and embracing, the route that was not as convenient.
Here is an excerpt from a post on convenience from Kitsap CrossFit:
Life is work and we need to do the work. Our health and all-around well-being depends on it. I’m not saying that we should never be comfortable or never take the easy route, but it shouldn’t be the only option. We have to think about the repercussions and results (or lack of) that come from embracing easy.
CrossFit is not convenient; it is not comfortable or easy. It is not convenient to be sore. It is not comfortable to have ripped and bloody hands or rope burns. It is definitely not easy to lift that heavy load, to sprint hard all 400 meters to the end, or stay steady through a 2K row. Sticking to the Zone or going Paleo is not convenient. For some of you the trek to the box is not convenient. What CrossFit is: incredibly hard work, lots of sweat, maybe some tears and above all commitment. So why do you do it?
Read full post here.
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Tuesday’s WOD:
A.) Overhead Squat
3-3-3-3-3
B.) As many rounds as possible in 9 minutes:
3 Burpees
6 Pullups
9 KB Swings
I too, never take elevators. I started only taking stairs after reading a lot of Bruce Lee philosophy. He argued that in every situation during your daily routine, a workout can be had. He believed that we are continually training, and making the conscious effort to do so was the key to honestly expressing the human body. One of his major points was opting for the stairs…