Yesterday I had yet another Crossfit Competition.

For those of you who don’t know much if anything about CrossFit, it’s a training methodology that is defined as constantly varied, high intensity, functional training.

In plain English it’s a HARD CORE workout that will get you in the best shape of your life.

The last workout of the day was extremely challenging.

It consisted of 25-45 reps of 8 exercises  followed by a 500 M. run. all to be completed  within  18 minutes.

To say the least it was NOT easy.

After the 4th exercise, as I’m painfully gasping for air and every part of my being wants to stop, I remember thinking to myself:

‘Shondelle, what the heck is wrong with you? Why do you continue to voluntarily put yourself through this degree of discomfort and pain.  This SUCKS!!!  Is it worth it?  Have you lost your frickin mind?”

I’m not exaggerating, I literally had this conversation with myself as my lungs were exploding, my knees were throbbing and my muscles felt like fireworks exploded inside of them.

However, when it was all over, I was already looking forward to another competition, so that I could do it all over again!

Some could call it masochistic and other would call it just ‘plain ole’ insane.

However, I call it riding the ‘Swing of Life’

Here’s how I can explain it.

Think of a child on a playground swing.

Does he have more fun when sitting motionless on the swing or when he given a hard push into the air?

Of course, he’s safer and perhaps more ‘comfortable’ if the swing is not moving, but he’s definitely having more fun and adventure flying into the air!

And typically, the harder the push, the better the ride!

Life is like the swing.

It must be moving, in one direction or the other,or it’s really not that fun.

Increase the swing, increase the momentum and you will increase your thrill or in other words, the greater the effort, the more exciting the journey, andthe greater the reward.

If you don’t want to swing very high, you just won’t have as great a reward.

Sometimes you’ll be swinging up, and sometimes you’ll be swinging down,but one thing is for sure, you don’t get stuck in mid air, but only if you’re sitting motionless at the bottom.

After all, what goes up, must come down right?

So the answer to myself as to why I continue to endure the pain and ‘suck factor’ of my Crossfit workouts:

It is because at the end of the day, the thrill,  and feeling of accomplishment and adventure after the workout,  far outweigh the discomfort I endure during the workout.

And it’s that feeling that makes the doing worthwhile.

I challenge you today, to find an aspect of your life where you’re sitting motionless on the swing of life and give yourself a push.

It could be your relationship, your career or perhaps your health and fitness.

In the beginning, it may take awhile to get your momentum going, and you may need  to come

outside of your comfort zone, and perhaps experience a little pain in the process, but I

promise you at the end of the day, your efforts will yield great reward!

Here’s to the Swing of Life,

Shondelle aka Coach

PS. If your health and fitness needs a push, my team and I at Synergize! can help you.  Visit our website at www.SynergizeWeightLoss.com and schedule a FREE consultation to see how we can help you reach your goals.

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