rEsT AnD Re-ReAd...( P3) Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Train (Or do anything)

From Jon Chapman

A couple of years ago we posted a few of questions on the white board for people who train with us.
The idea was to have people consider their motivations, what they were doing, why they were doing it, and as a result assess their commitment to it. The questions are simple but profound in the sense if considered seriously and reflected on, the answers are guides. Taking a look back, it really applies to just about anything in life, work, family, friends, training and more. The consideration of what we are doing with the limited time we have in our life. Many times people get caught up on the details, tasks, deadlines and are absorbed with the busyness rather than substance. We are going to have a bias toward training, but consider the questions in a broader scope.
Every moment in time is an opportunity to check if what you're doing is really what you want to be doing. In today's fast-paced world we often get caught up in the rapidfire details of earning a living, taking care of the family, and generally reacting to what the world throws at us. We rush from meeting to meeting, from task to task, and day-to-day without really considering or taking the time to look inward and decide if what we are doing is what we should be doing. People get so caught up in handling the day-to-day operations of life without stepping back and thinking of what they're doing and why they're doing it.

What do you want? Examine what you want from the individual workout. Examine what you want from the overall scope of the training. There are as many different goals as there are people. Some people have similar goals; some people have very different goals. The goal of going to the gym is to get a desired training effect (Speedo season, 20 year class reunion, whatever) presupposes that there is a goal. Take a moment to consider what it is you want from your training. Results like being more healthy, losing body fat, looking better, feeling better, being stronger, being faster are all easy to accomplish if you know what you're trying to do. Definition of what we specifically mean when talking about what you want is key to success in publishing your goal. One of the real beauties of using CrossFit training is that you can measure almost every workout to chart your progress overall. It allows people to judge specifically if what they're doing is meeting what they want. CrossFit most people from nonspecific to detail oriented metrics to help people know if they are getting what they want.