You Might Be the Fittest Person in the Room, but you Still need God
For most of my adult life, I have engaged in some form of exercise mainly for recreational enjoyment, emotional health, and the competitive comradery it offers. I think I enjoy it more as a middle-aged man than a young man—probably because I wasted several years in a lifestyle of drugs and partying as a teenager. For the past few years, I have become fond of CrossFit. I love the supportive community it offers, never ending challenging workouts and the many functional movements that consistently test your fitness level. It is a fun, addictive way to get in shape 3-5 times a week while at the same time improving the version of you. I enjoy tracking the progress of my fitness level with now being able to do certain movements like Olympic lifting (a clean or snatch) with increase in weights or doing strict pull ups or gymnastics like toes to bar. I have had and still have moments of frustration with being incompetent in several skills, but it is a process to struggle as you grow....
