Results For Category: "Motivational"

10 Things We Believe

In two days, we'll be celebrating our four-year anniversary.  Catalyst was but a gleam in the eye of Coach Coop four years…

One Year From Today

  October 23, 2010.  You're in a small change room, rushing into your workout clothes.  You wore the same shorts yesterday, but…

No Scale

I'm yelling as loudly as I can, but no one in the room can hear me.  I'm bellowing numbers in descending order:…

Cherrypicking

May 2008.  My second day of CrossFit. Linda was her name, and she was well versed in the frustration of young men.  And…

Push

My friend, Dr. Mike Mackay, calls it, "Feeding The Baby." When I'm watching an athlete do box jumps, my knees involuntarily flex…

Forcing Evolution

Monday's Murph was fantastic.  12 people, the majority first-timers, took upon Murph like he was delivering rice to their starving village.  They…

Changin' Ain't Easy

In September's GO! Newsletter, I wrote about the Trap of Competence.  How it's easy to pigeonhole yourself into being "the one who's…

The Competitive Element

"Our workouts are competitive events. The strength and value of CrossFit lies entirely within our domination of other athletes. This is a…

Covering ALL The Bases

What are you best at?  Chances are, that's your favourite thing to do.  There's an obvious self-fulfilling paradigm there: if you like…

Exploit Your Weaknesses

What makes you great?  You, specifically? Yes, you're great.  At some things, especially.  So what's holding you back on the others? Let…