Favorite Quotes & Excerpts?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 2:05 am
I love quotes, and I find quotes very motivational, and certain excerpts educational. One well written paragraph can solve a problem that's plagued one for a lifetime.
What are you favorites? Can be quotes or excerpts from TB or other books.
This one from TB2 really crystallized something that had been growing in my own mind after years of training:
When it’s time to work – then work like a crazy cyborg commando on meth. When you have a well-deserved easy week coming up – take it. Think long term. This should be making perfect sense to you. This isn’t an 8 week training camp or spec ops selection. This is you training for life, for the next 30 or 40 years. An easy conditioning week allows you to recharge your physical and mental batteries. You’ll be itching to get back out there and hit those hills or swing your kettlebells. Don’t be the guy that gets all excited, and goes full bore/all-in for the first few weeks, and then burns himself out like an amateur.
This was like a slap in the face because it was simple truth. Everyone I know that tries the 100%-all-the-time in your face approach gets hit with injury or burn-out. Everyone. I don't know of a single Crossfitter in my "real life" that's stuck with CF (alone) for any appreciable length of time without serious injury or burn-out. There's a difference going super-hard in the context of a short term program with a set beginning and end (like fight camp, selection) and training like that for life.
What are you favorites? Can be quotes or excerpts from TB or other books.
This one from TB2 really crystallized something that had been growing in my own mind after years of training:
When it’s time to work – then work like a crazy cyborg commando on meth. When you have a well-deserved easy week coming up – take it. Think long term. This should be making perfect sense to you. This isn’t an 8 week training camp or spec ops selection. This is you training for life, for the next 30 or 40 years. An easy conditioning week allows you to recharge your physical and mental batteries. You’ll be itching to get back out there and hit those hills or swing your kettlebells. Don’t be the guy that gets all excited, and goes full bore/all-in for the first few weeks, and then burns himself out like an amateur.
This was like a slap in the face because it was simple truth. Everyone I know that tries the 100%-all-the-time in your face approach gets hit with injury or burn-out. Everyone. I don't know of a single Crossfitter in my "real life" that's stuck with CF (alone) for any appreciable length of time without serious injury or burn-out. There's a difference going super-hard in the context of a short term program with a set beginning and end (like fight camp, selection) and training like that for life.