Overcoming challenges

My apologies that its been a couple days since my last post... :( Its been one of those weeks last week, but not to worry, I'm back on track!!!

Myself and girls went in for our workout this morning to find that we had a new one posted for us!!! YEAH!! We were so excited to do some new workouts!! And it was quite a workout!! It pushed all of us in every exercise!! One of the things that I daily have to work on during our workouts is getting out of my own head!!! I can talk myself out of anything, workout included!! I don't know if any of you have this same issue, but its a struggle sometimes in the workouts.... For the longest time I had steered away doing a lot of weight when doing anything using my lower body...I always used the excuse of my knees so that I wouldn't add more weights or so that I wouldn't have to do a particular exercise at all.. But thanks to some really great workout buddies, they have pushed me to go above and beyond my comfort zone!! And amazingly enough, when these exercises are done properly my knees don't hurt!! (Imagine that!! :) ) And one of the things I'm learning from reading and talking to other Crossfitter's(i know, not a word...) it doesn't matter that lbs that you add, its the fact that you push yourself and challenge yourself and not to worry what everyone else around you is doing or lifting!!

Two of the exercises that I swore up and down I was not going to be able to do much at all on were Box Jumps and barbell lunges... And lo and behold, I have moved the platform up two levels in the last couple weeks on my box jumps (i'm only two more slots away from the top and then its on to a much bigger box....)!! I was STOKED!!! (and a little proud of myself, i will admit... :) And on the Barbell lunges, one of my girls is consistently pushing me to challenge myself!! I know its not real impressive, but starting with just the barbell a couple weeks ago for the lunges, to today ending the last set of them with a total weight of 85lbs was VERY EXCITING to me!!! I'm loving overcoming things that I didn't think I was going to be able to!!

My advice is this...No matter what it is in your life, ALWAYS challenge and push yourself!!! You are capable of MUCH more than you think you are!! As I have tell myself, "Get out of your own head!!"

Have a great week!!!