This blog post (which you need to go read...right now...) is reason 1,236,943 I love Crossfit. And as I was thinking about some women I know struggling with body image right now, I thought about my own issues with my body and how I view it completely differently now, because of Crossfit.
I love crossfit because when the weather turned warm and long pants turned to shorts, one of my male friends at my crossfit box said, "Your legs are looking really muscular," and it made my day (and it wasn't nearly as weird as I make it sound in writing). Okay, my week.
Crossfit gyms don't have mirrors on the wall - it's not about what you look like. At all. It's about the progress you make from wherever it was that you started. It's about building a supportive community where everyone is challenged and supported. When I stared crossfit I couldn't jump up onto a 45 lb plate ten times (that about 3 inches...). Now I use 20" boxes in my WODs and have successfully jumped a few times on a 24" (which is often the men's height for the WODs). And even though I can now do so many things that I couldn't do a year and a half ago, there are so many more things that I'm still working on (and some that I'm not even able to work on right now, they're that far of a reach for me). What crossfit did is retaught me (because, deep down, I knew it was true) that the scale doesn't matter. Looks aren't important.
Being bad-ass is.
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