As Many Reps as Possible

by Jason Khalipa

If your goal is to become a CrossFit Games champion—great, I love it! That’s a great goal that demands years of hard, focused work and stressful competition. Are you ready to give up nearly everything in your life to win? Are you ready to train early, train late, train sick, train on vacation, train on holidays? Does it pull at your soul when you’re not training? Does it make you ill that someone, somewhere is working harder than you? My point is that your why has to be so immense that you not only do all the hard, painful work, day after day, but are also willing to make sacrifices on a routine basis. If you don’t have a strong why in place, one day you will find yourself in the middle of a severe workout or agony-filled competition, and a voice is going to start whispering in your head. Why are you doing this to yourself? You don’t really want this, it will say. If you don’t have an immediate, unshakable answer, then it’s over. You have just lost.