CrossFit Lisbeth

The World Is Brutal and You Must Be Brave

The world is brutal, and you must be brave. I wish I could tell you otherwise. I wish I could fill your days with new barbells and kettlebells and beautiful, inspiring PRs. I wish I could tell you that the path to success is shiny and bright and sunshine will come out of your ass. [...]

Spending the Days

How do you spend your energy? Your days? Your love? Your life? We talk so much about being efficient in our movements in the gym, about using our bodies wisely and purposively, about making each motion count … but do we think about that in our daily lives? How functional are the daily activities of [...]

Breathe, Pause, Recover

The trouble with karma is that it takes so long to arrive sometimes … We want everything NOW. Justice? Now. Results? Now. Oh, and forgiveness now and maybe some total memory loss too, when we’re on the wrong side of the finger-pointing. Just like we want our pull-ups NOW, and then our butterfly pull-ups, and [...]

Speal

And he pulled us all up.

Don’t Surrender

“That’s just the way it is.” Ugh. Raise your hand if you hate that saying. “That’s just the way it is.” What an excuse for mediocrity. A rationale for piss-poor performance. An acceptance of crap. Those words are a symbol that you’ve given up, or that you won’t try harder, or that you just don’t [...]

CrossFit

How to Become an Overnight Success

Work. Really hard. For years. And when a door opens, run through it. When opportunity presents itself, don’t just grab it — knock it down, toss it on your back, and sprint until you’re ready to throw up. Suck in more air and run even harder. Ignore the pain and head for the light. Run [...]

Rings

Kick Your Own Butt

Kick yourself in the ass. Go ahead. You know you need to. You know there is something that you should be doing, and yet you’re not doing it. There may be a whole list of things. I’m like you — I’ve got a list idling over there on the “Ignore” setting. And a whole list [...]

We Tell Ourselves

We tell ourselves all sorts of things. “This weight is too heavy for me.” “I’m not a fast runner.” “I’ve never been agile.” Well, f*** that. Every time you tell yourself bullshit, you’re limiting yourself. Just because something was, doesn’t mean it has to be. I’m slow as hell when I run. What’s that mean [...]