I quit Crossfit in November. Not sure if you all noticed, but I don’t officially belong to a box anymore. I want to make it very clear that it had NOTHING to do with the coaches or people at my box. In fact, I think my CF box was and is AWESOME. The coaches are top notch and the emphasis is on form and safety. But it had EVERYTHING to do with my mindset (and lack of muscles??).

Quitting was a tough decision and I was debating on whether to post the reasons why I quit, but some ppl have been asking so here goes:

1. A LOT of FRUSTRATION. This is the number one reason why I quit. I want to be clear that I wasn’t frustrated with the coaches or the other Crossfitters. I was frustrated with myself. I know that you’re only in competition with yourself and blah, blah, blah…but really my ego was taking a GIANT beating. You see, I kicked ass on longer metcons and this made up for the fact that I sucked ass at anything that required brute strength.

The first few months or so, there was a good mixure of long metcons and short strength workouts that I felt ok to be sucking once in a while. But since the games I have found that CF has been focusing more and more on strength. Which I don’t have. No really, I don’t. I know, I know, you have to work on your goats. That’s fine, but I still couldn’t lift shit. Sure, I was improving a little…but I have a delicate ego and I found myself just dreading the WODs bc I would suck so bad.

2. Timing. I get off work at 4:30 so ideally, I would love to make the 5 class. Not possible. So I wouldn’t be able to WOD until 6. Which meant that I wouldn’t be done till 7 (at the earliest). In a perfect world, I would WOD at 5 and done at 6. That would be HEAVEN!

3. Cost. Ok, this really isn’t that important bc I think the quality of the coaching I got was DEF worth the cost. But since I was starting to dread a lot of the workouts I started feeling like I was paying lots of money to feel absolutely craptastic about myself.

That’s really about it. Really, I think it just boils down to the fact that I was getting really frustrated with myself and that the emphasis has been on strength. Did you watch the Crossfit Games last year?? Pure power. Which I lack and which I will never, ever have. Sure, I’ll improve, but really, I’m built for speed, not power. That being said, however, I MISS CROSSFIT. I miss the community. I miss the competition. I do my own WODs at the gym and I drop into various Crossfit type classes every so often. But it’s not the same.

In my version of the perfect world, I would find a box where I can make the 5pm class, that only scheduled long metcons and was cheap (with great trainers). HAHAHA. Never going to happen. So for now, I might consider dropping in at various boxes once in awhile just to get my Crossfit fix. I’ll just make sure it’s a day when they have a WOD that I like. Who me, cherry picking??? Yeah, you bet your ass I am.