https://medium/i-m-h-o/6d606a0b7d31 Personal responsibility is taboo CrossFit and fitness do not exist in a vacuum. CrossFit does not pick your weights or lift them for you. It is your responsibility to learn the movements and techniques and pick an appropriate weight for your skill and experience. The coaches are there to guide you, not do it for you. Erika Anderson wrote a brilliant piece recently entitled “CrossFit Doesn’t Have A Dirty Little Secret—You’re Just Irresponsible” that sums this up beautifully. This is what it comes down to: personal responsibility. I don’t expect my CrossFit coaches to do everything for me. I have to take the responsibility to learn moves correctly and take things slowly. I have to listen to my body and not cave to some kind of “zombie pressure” to keep going when I shouldn’t. My back is hurt right now and why? Because I did something incorrectly and that’s my fault. I went too big on a weight and that’s my fault. I wasn’t careful—that’s MY fault. That could have happened to me working out in Gold’s Gym by myself. Of course, most people today don’t want to be responsible for anything at all,especially if it involves something negative.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:16:54 +0000