So stop talking about your goals and go do it 👊🏽 thanks for the push everyday 💪🏽 #crossfit #getit 📷 post shared by Jackie Perez on at 6:02pm PDTīrooke Wells is an elite athlete, period.
After tackling that monster the training seems like the easy part 🤣. Most of my battles are with my diet though. I switch it up so I don’t get bored but I make it happen. It’s become my routine so even when I’m not feeling it, it’s just what I do. I go to Crossfit early to run a mile and I stay after for Krav. So I get my ass up in the morning and run or I get on the stairmaster at night. I want to be prepared for whatever life throws my way. I want to constantly push to be a better version of myself. The work has to match what you say you want. Most days, the last thing I want to do is go running in the morning or take Crossfit and then stay after for Krav when all I want is a glass of 🍾 and the couch. Answer: pre-workout 🤣 jk but seriously I am not always motivated. Because as bad as those remarks hurt, as ashamed, embarrassed or sad I have felt about how I look…I have known more joy and I have felt more pride in what I have accomplished because of CrossFit.“How do you stay motivated”? This is the most common question I get. I do not regret being involved in a sport whose community culture reveres work over aesthetics. Intelligence, power and strength are trampled in the search of a defined beauty. But because of strangers who stare and family members who mention how “manly” we look, it is a constant battle between insecurity and pride. What they don’t understand is that hours of building strength have made us who we have become. And in pride…įriends and family will ask, “When you are done with this competing thing… maybe you could go back to looking normal?” Fitness is gauged in reps, in speed, power, and virtuosity. But in CrossFit gyms all over the world, mirrors are conspicuous by their absence. There are people who spend their entire lives allowing the reflection in the mirror to determine their self-esteem, submitting to a cultural judgment established decades ago. I think this quote from CrossFit’s video “ Letting Beauty Speak” puts it best: I want you to envy what I can do.Įnvy my ability to lift 175-pounds over my head.Įnvy that girl with the thick thighs who can squat over 200 pounds.īe envious of that woman with the protruding traps, who can climb a 12-foot rope…legless. I don’t want you to be jealous of what I look like. To cope, we tell ourselves, “Take it as a compliment!” or “ They are just jealous!” The speculators will insist they aren’t jealous because they don’t want to “look like that.” Whether it’s thick thighs, protruding traps, or all that mass on our ass…people just love to point out and how different those physical features make us. I am not the only one who hears these remarks.
I even recall one relative saying, “You should really stop doing this weightlifting thing no guy is going to want a girl with bigger muscles than his.” It doesn’t help that my family and even strangers mention my appearance all the time.
Being a gymnast, soccer player, sprinter and now CrossFitter, the result of lifting weights, doing multiple pull-ups and push ups - along with my genetic make-up - has left me with a broad back, thick shoulders and plenty of insecurities. As an active and athletic child, why would I? But as those who interact with the public world know, it is only a matter of time until definitions and public influences change a person’s body peace. I used to never worry about my physical appearance. Guaranteed, dozens of callused hands will fly up into the air. Walk into a CrossFit gym and ask a group of women if they have had these comments directed to them.
Strong Invictus women on a recent field trip to a local gymnastics facility.Ä«roadening Beauty: Women Who CrossFit & Self-Image
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