If it jiggles it might be delicious…

Look-All men!!  I think they are worried about the outcome of the Get-Some Challenge

Shout out to the Get-Some Challengers.  I’ve seen you all working hard this week.  Ellie-you are stepping up with a new level of committment and I AM EXCITED!  Lots of pullups around, questions for your trainers-impressive.

In this world of eating well and training hard and in light of our Women’s Challenge, I want to distinguish the CrossFit Works philosophy from some other PISS POOR philosophies on training and eating.  As we all commit to good eating and getting fit, fitter and fittest lets all remember that inside the walls of this Affiliate we determine success by performance and feeling.  NOT BY APPEARANCE.  There is such a fine line sometimes between wanting to get lean, fast, strong and healthy and being disgruntled or sad when we don’t look a certain way.  Yes, it is fantastic when someone loses 15 or 20lbs because they stopped eating crap and started training hard.  The loss of that weight means they got healthier.  They didn’t get healthy because they lost weight.  They lost weight because they got healthy.  Know what I mean?  As the co-owner of this strength and conditioning facility I refuse to participate in the phenomenon by which we create negativity for people around their bodies.  I was deeply saddened to see, on the www.crossfit.com Affiliate blog a couple weeks ago, a picture of the blackboard from an Affiliate in Atlanta.  The board said “It’s simple.  If it jiggles then it’s fat.”  Well, what then?  The women I know and love have fat that jiggles.  They are strong, fast, powerful, kind, loving, dedicated.  They have birthed children, cared for partners, built businesses.  Whether or not they have jiggly fat somewhere is no body’s damn business (except those people with whom they get naked on a regular basis!) and does not have implication for their ability to fight off the flu or kick someone’s ass in a workout.

Remember that in this CrossFit Affiliate we strive for wellness and a better quality of life through hard playing.  Physical strength, mental strength and emotional strength are the goals.  Get strong in every way.  If you jiggle, make sure you’re jiggling while running faster than you’ve ever run before.  If you jiggle, make sure it is while you are doing sets of kipping pullups like lightning.  If you jiggle, do it while playing in the park with your kids.  Keep working hard.  You are awesome right now at this very moment.