Sometimes when you are doing a google image search you just don’t get the image that you expected. I was kinda hoping for a picture of a fit person trapped in a fat person’s body or something like that. Instead I got this creepy guy.

The following post came from Rainier CrossFit. I did a WOD with Laurie (the author of the post) back in my PNW days and she’s a great CrossFitter! She sums it up quite well. We all have our “glory days”, and can remember when we were athletes. I know for me that it is amazing to feel like I did back then. It may take me a little longer to recover, but that just comes with getting old…

What was your sport? Where did you excel as a high school / college athlete? Drama class doesn’t count.

Bring back your inner athlete.

Were you an athlete? Even a marginal one? I played ____ in high school. Baseball? Football? Tennis?

I used to ski but now my knees ache. I ran track, placed at State but that was 20 years and 20 pounds ago. I was captain of my swim team.

Gone are your glory days, right? Replaced by carpools, toddler gymnastics, and pee-wee  hockey. You’ve turned in your jersey and signed up to be the soccer mom. You even have the mini-van to get the job done.

Your truck is full of orange cones, a mesh bag of basketballs, and a whistle. You’re only pick-up game is an hour long at the Y on Saturdays with a whole gym full of 8 year olds running in the wrong direction.

Somewhere inside, you miss the “team”, the road trips, the nick names, and the Friday night lights.

Let me tell you, they miss you.

I’m not about to tell you to join that adults only dodgeball league.  I’m going to tell you to join a CrossFit gym.

The team is back, made up of your closest friends, all cheering for you, working together, and striving toward a common goal.  You’ll suffer together, you’ll triumph together, you might even travel together.  You’ll set goals, you’ll reach goals, you’ll set new ones. You’ll blow your old self right out of the water.  You’ll bring back your inner athlete.

All of this by joining a gym?  We’re not just a gym. We’re a cohesive team. A school of fish swimming together, turning together, accelerating together.   The camaraderie, the support, the encouragement, the friendship, the training, the challenge – you’ll find yourself back on the team in no time. What you won’t find are long rides on school buses, awkward locker room showers, or smelly uniforms.  (You’re a grown up, do your laundry!)

Ready to join the team?  Start in the gym. Then take it to the streets, the slopes, the court, or the field. You’re inner athlete is just hidden, not gone. Find it here.

WOD

With a partner…

AMRAP 20

4 DB Squat Clean (2 each arm) 25/45

4 DB Jerk 25/45

4 DB Snatch 25/45

One partner works at a time. May be broken up any way you like; however, if you start an exercise you must finish it. For example, if partner 1 begins squat cleans, partner 2 must wait for him/her to finish before he/she begins the jerks.