Practice is the spoonfull of sugar that helps this medicine go down

Monday, it's early - sometimes it feels like no matter what the time actually is, it's still too early. Especially on Monday. I begin my commute downtown. Today's class two (of three) covering the foundations. Today's all about the press, push press, and push jerk. Again, I'm under the wing of Travis Page and his patient coaching this morning. We go over the different movements, and they are not as easy as they look. I learned this morning, as I did in my first class that these lifts, are incredibly more complex and technical than they look.  There's grip, grip-width, foot placement, where you want your body weight on your feet, how to align yourself, the dip-drive, elbows up, remain vertical, push that bar straight up, don't push it around your head, lock it out, foot movement, chest up, etc.... All of this shit is running through my head while I'm trying desperately to duplicate what I just saw Travis do. Then I over-think what has to happen, then I hesitate. (Round and round the merry-go-round turns.) I try to clear my head, go over the movements one last time and then do a couple reps, with Travis watching. I stay in this fight.

There's a couple things I noticed today also. One: you don't always need to load up a bar and throw heavy weights to get a workout, my mind was being worked this morning, along with more muscles that I wasn't aware of. I felt worked when I left the box today. Two: the integrity of the CrossFit community is still surprising. I was simply struggling with double unders, (I have only ever been successful at one single double under in my life) another CrossFit'r saw my struggle, walked over and began giving me tips that worked for him. He watched me try to apply those tips and then gave me some feedback. I am very greatful  for any and all feedback. But the little part of this that made a big impact on me, was that he was in the middle of his warmup when he saw me struggling and he came right over to help me out. I thought that was awesome. There's just no judgement, there's no egos, there's only different stages of learning. Everyone sucks at something at some point, everyone knows what that feels like. And everyone wants to help each other get past that suck, if they're able to help.