{"id":1037,"date":"2012-04-05T16:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T23:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2012-04-05T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T23:47:32","slug":"crossfit-if-youre-not-on-the-edge-of-fitness-you-cannot-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"Crossfit: if you&#8217;re not on the edge of fitness you cannot improve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blair Morrison has a quote on his blog: &#8220;<em>If you&#8217;re not on the edge, you&#8217;re just taking up space.<\/em>&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure I had seen it before today or not. \u00a0I know I&#8217;ve used the phrase &#8220;If you\u2019re not on the edge of your ability, you can\u2019t improve&#8221; in a previous post. \u00a0I actually like my version, because not everybody wants to be on the edge all the time, and some people\u00a0perhaps\u00a0never. \u00a0And I&#8217;m not the one to pass judgement on their desires or abilities.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years back Morrison posted a blog titled &#8220;<a title=\"Blair Morrison Fitness is Potential\" href=\"http:\/\/crossfitmobile.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/fitness-is.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fitness Is&#8230;Potential<\/a>&#8221; dated September 2010. \u00a0I just saw it today. \u00a0It&#8217;s meant (I think) to be inspirational. \u00a0Mostly it is. It does betray a certain bias towards survival of the fittest, which I suppose comes with the Crossfit\u00a0territory. \u00a0I once saw a tee shirt that read &#8220;stronger people are generally more useful, and harder to kill&#8221; which I thought was pretty funny.<\/p>\n<p>In any case I do think that the hardest lesson in Crossfit, or I suppose any really, really hard thing, is to learn not to give up too early. \u00a0I confess I am afraid of failure. \u00a0Or I used to be. \u00a0Now I&#8217;m on somewhat more friendly terms with failure. \u00a0Or more accurately stated, I&#8217;m learning how failure can be\u00a0accomplished\u00a0in a\u00a0controlled\u00a0environment.<\/p>\n<p>Learning how to reach the current potential and getting beyond it\u00a0requires\u00a0a certain attitude about fear. \u00a0I&#8217;m learning how to not fear the weight, just to fear doing a poorly executed lift (which will cause injury, which I should avoid).<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get past your current ability, sooner or later you have to get to the edge.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n google_ad_client = \"pub-0675667561792454\"; \/* Ad#1 Writers Block *\/ google_ad_slot = \"4888260728\"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess I am afraid of failure.  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