CrossFit, It Never Gets Easier!

Got a green band pullup?  Great, gimme a red band pullup.  Got a red band pullup?  Great, gimme a no band pullup.  Got a no band pullup?  Great, gimme 5, then 10, then 21.  Got it?  Great, get ready for 21-15-9 of pullups and ring dips.  Or back sqauts and push presses, or thrusters, or double unders, or kettlebell swings, or wall ball shots, or pushups, or burpees (OMFG).  Got 21-15-9 of PU and RD?  Great, get it under 5 minutes.  Got it under 5 minutes?  Great, give me a muscle up.  And on and on and on.  Got a 205 push press?  Let’s work on getting 225.  Got a 150 snatch?  Let’s work on getting 175.  Got a 35:34 Murph?  Let’s work on getting under 30.  Got a perfect split jerk technique?  Great, start showing the next guy and helping the next guy and cheering for the next guy.  It never ends, and it never gets easier.

I went back and I looked at the definition of CrossFit.  There’s lots, but one of the first one I recall, and which I think is still valid is “that which optimizes fitness, comprising constantly varied functional movements performed at relatively high intensity.”  Buried somewhere in those 14 words is “it never gets easier,” because as you move the bar on how hard you work, you have to work more and harder to attain “relatively high intensity”.    It never gets easier.  At least let’s hope not.

I wonder what tomorrow’s WOD will be….