No one cares about your "wods" or your "box"

this isn't a blanket statement, but on the whole I find runners to be among the least interesting people I know. Oh, you're into running? And you need to do it no matter the weather? Fascinating. Running to me has always been absolutely brutal and boring, and the people who enjoy it are equally so. Not all, but most. You throw a ball out there, I'll run all day (says my 18 year old self). But the need and desire to grind your femurs into your knees and turn yourself into scrawny imitations of Golem has never made sense to me.

 

If it were up to me, I'd be preparing for the Senior Tour every day instead. But options are limited at 4 a.m.

And I'm probably not very interesting.

 

My buddy's wife is one of the biggest Crossfit social media types you'll ever see. (She just went to whatever competition they just had in Miami with her gym, and we heard all about it.) I will say two things in support of all of this:

- She's now built like Terminator 2-era Linda Hamilton*, so for all the bitching, this shit works
- Numerous scantily clad pictures of her and her very attractive, very fit Crossfit friends

*There's a certain amount of irony in this, given that her husband's college nickname was Ahab because of the kind of girls he tended to take home.

 

I find that not being on social media keeps me from being annoyed by these kinds of things. That seems to be where the majority of the preaching and bragging happens.

I have several friends who do Crossfit. They love it and are considering buying/starting their own gym. But when we hang out person to person, it rarely comes up unless I ask about it. I didn't even know one of them had been doing Crossfit for about a year until I noticed he had lost weight and asked him what he was doing to get fit.

So my advice - to everyone about everything - is to get off of social media. Except for SJ.com, which is a gem.

 

This reminds me of the Daniel Tosh bit:

"Swimming? You mean that thing you instinctively do before you die?"

 

My advice is: an interest in cross-fit does not mean that you should invest in, buy or open a new cross-fit gym.
Most gym fail anyway, but a gym that specializes in cross-fit is more likely to fail because there is a limited market that will shrink rapidly soon when the trend peaks and snaps back.

I've got nothing against cross-fit, but drive around your town and track how many gyms open and close.
It's a very unstable business, and a lot of people get into it with little to no business experience.

 

Crossfitters aren't nearly as annoying as the Plexus disciples.

 

Whatever your sins may be, uninteresting isn't one of them.

 

The first rule of Crossfit is that you talk as much as you fucking can about Crossfit.

 

I thought P90X or American Ninja Warrior gyms were the hotness now.