A running sandwich

Hi all,

Just wanted to send out a quick message. I haven’t been able to be in the box much lately, I hurt my lower back and talked to a doctor and recommended that I take some time off lifting. Quite frankly, it was too tempting to go to the box and not lift so I decided to take some time off to let my back heal. So that’s why I haven’t been around much over the past month. I talked to Sean and he gave me some good suggestions, as it hasn’t gotten a ton better with rest, so I’m gonna check those and see what happens. I’ll just throw out a warning for all you who are just getting into crossfit. Once you go crossfit you don’t go back. I went a gym to go swimming and saw people doing their typical bis, tris, and bench workout and couldn’t even imagine going back to that. Working out without a time frame or intense rep scheme just doesn’t seem worth it. You’ll know when it happens and when it does it will be way too late.

Another reason I’m writing here is that I’m leaving the city to go to school in Rochester. I was hoping to get better before and squeeze some workouts in before I left but it doesn’t seem to be shaping up that way. I’m sure I’ll be back in the city some over the next couple of years so I can promise that I will be at the black box hitting up whatever the WOD might be that day. I’m sure when I’m back I’ll see plenty or new and old faces and everyone will be hitting a PR in something.

I started doing Crossfit last July and I think it was one of the best things I’ve ever gotten into. It’s not just a place to go lift heavy weights and sweat, but its a community of people that are into living healthy lives through fitness and nutrition. Regardless of your background that is just such a sick group of people to be with. I’ve made so much progress over the past year, not only in my metcons and lifts, but in the way I eat, my body composition and my outlook on life. If you really throw yourself into this, read the journal, do the workouts, and eat the right way you will accomplish whatever you want. Even though I was accepted, a year ago I wasn’t ready to start medical school. I can say now, without a doubt, that I am ready to tackle it, and not just because I took off school for a year, but in a large part because crossfit has shown me that I can do whatever I put my mind to. Thank you crossfit, thank you black box coaches, and thanks to all my black box peers who pushed me to the limit in every workout I’ve done over the past year. Keep working hard and improving yourself and just know that no goal is unattainable with the right attitude. Hope to see you all in the future.

Lift some heavy weights and mishik some metcons.

Ben

I checked the calendar b/c couldn’t remember the earlier class times, and asked because I was unsure as to whether 8:30PM Fridays had been reinstated at some point.
Aware that 7:30PM has been the last class since at least the beginning 2011. I keep waiting for it to come up as a question during bar trivia, but alas, it never does.