Limiting Yourself!
We all do it!
We do?
You bet we do, but have you every stopped and tried to identify how you limit your potential?
Here are a few ways you may be limiting yourself when it comes to CrossFit.
1) Nutritionally
2) Sleep and Recovery
3) Stress Hormones
4) Mobility
5) Lack of planning or focus in know weaknesses
6) Creating a mental ceiling for yourself
7) Letting self doubt enter your subconscious
8) Not pushing yourself to that new level of effort/performance
9) Lack of understanding of how to do a movement
10) Not seeking to identify your limitations
Over the next few months it is my intention to continue to address these topics via the Sunday articles (see the archive on “Modifying the WOD” and “Finishing the Pull” if you’ve missed the last two). Other topics are welcome so if you have thoughts or ideas post them to the comments or email me. I hope that some discussion grows from these ‘articles’ as it did with ‘Modifying the WOD’. This website is for you, the members and followers of CrossFit PEI so jump in and participate. Speak, share and comment. Trolls will be thrown under the office in the storage area but lets use this format to grow and not limit ourselves
For myself, I need to take more time after class to work on my weaknesses instead of avoiding them until they are part of the WOD. Also I think I might be sacrificing technique for speed which is causing me injury.
Really enjoying the mobility classes and have tried to incorporate the stretches into my warmup which has helped all around.
I could use some help with Nutrition. Maybe like a daily post on meals. When left to my own devices I end up at Dairy Queen eating Oreo Blizzards.
I just want to “like” Bobby’s reference to Oreo Blizzards
Joey should do another nutrition session. Maybe since Tim’s off gluten now, he’ll even listen…
Dave, good stuff. I particularly like the first four items. Seemingly separate, they are all directly related…
Bad nutrition will lead to bad sleep and recovery. Bad sleep and recovery will lead to poor digestion of food leading to further bad sleep/recovery. That’s the first “bad cycle”.
Once that cycle has been happening for some time, hormonal balance comes into play. This can have an effect on a range of topics such as insulin resistance, body composition, mood, mental state, stress and as Dave listed mobility. Reduced mobility is can be a result of elevated cortisol (a hormone) levels which will “mess you up”. And you get elevated cortisol by eating poorly and not getting enough quality sleep.
The circular devolving cycle into performance hell!
Bobby, if it makes you feel better, I eat peanut M&M’s every day (yes, every day) and last night I had nachos and some other bad stuff for me. After my crack at Fran today, I may start listening to Dave and Joey….