Great post Sean! My goal is no more bands (or binky) starting September 9th.

And to beat Brian every day.

I want to finish in the top 40% for the December competition. When we put up the “girls” board, I was to have the number 1 spot in at least ONE WOD.

And to beat Anna every day.

this is such a good post! and my goal is to do at least one workout as rx’d before sept 30. i can do it!!! and, also, if we’re trying to beat people, i’d love to kick scott’s ass in several consecutive WODs.

Goal is to beat Brian, Anna, and Drew everyday.

Goals:
1)Lose the gut that has taken me a lifetime to build
2)Unassisted pullups..bain of my childhood
3)Toes to bar/Knees to elbows..bain of my adulthood
Great post Sean. Good luck to Henry in his SEAL training!

great post! my goals:
-pull ups without bands (*sigh* one day)
-normal people push ups! (no bar, no knees!).. hopefully I can achieve this by november
-lose a few unwanted inches around my waist

@Melissa – Why the hate? Why do you want to kick MY ass? j/k

@Xuan – I feel you brother! Personally, I’m hoping to knock another 10-20 off the gut by the end of the year. Your pullups will come soon. T2B & K2E are killing me as well, but I’m sure they will come. Paleo is the answer. I know it sounds crazy. Give in to the dark side!!

My Goals:
-Drop another 10-20 lbs
-Complete Fran Rx’d
-Sub 3 hour Malibu Olympic Tri (Sept 11th)
-Sub 1:45 Half Marathon (Nov 14th)

My goals:

- 2x bodyweight deadlift
- legit 4min Fran, 3min Grace and never have to do Helen again unless I can get in my car and around the block.
- 225 clean and jerk
- and long term bodyweight OHS

@scott, what 1/2 marathon are you doing?! omg i need to train with you buddy!

My goal us to help everyone attain their goals (no binkies), finish in top 5 next competition, qualify for nationals in an oly meet by the end of next year, and to keep letting Sean beat me (in wods).

Great post Sean! My goal is to look good naked just like Jake.

I’m definitely looking forward to the clash next month and have recently realized to keep up with you guys I need to maintain a consistent diet, complete a rx’d benchmark WOD with a respectable time and up the ante on the weights even if it means I’m going to fail along the way. Cause that’s only going to fuel that hunger to keep pushing!

@Pooja – Michelle and I are doing the Malibu Half Marathon. We should definitely go for some training runs together. When is your next race?

BTW – Michelle came home from CF yesterday, saw my buddy Brian and I on our brick transitioning from the bike to run and decided to join us for 6 miles!! She’s CRAzy!! I would be worried about burnout, but luckily she’ll be getting some much needed “rest” days this weekend in Vegas!

For those who don’t know a “Brick” is a 2-sport workout, either Swim and Bike or Bike and Run, during a Triathlon training session. And a “Trick” is when you do all 3 sports in a training session. Not to be confused with the “Tricks” Jake is turning on the mean streets of the ‘Gundo.

Scott, stop asking me for a ZJ. If you have to ask what it is, you can’t afford it.

Anna: You sooooo don’t need bands =). My goal is to be strong like Avelyne and Ruth (and make it look easy like they do) and to make better numbers like Anna and Steph =P (stop tryin to make me look bad LOL).

Great post! This is something I think about almost every day.

AWESOME Post! I work right across the street from the BUD/S base and constantly see them running around, keeping that motivation high! My goal is to get a muscle-up (finally)!

Geez it’s a vocabulary lesson everyday on here!

Awesome post Sean! I feel ya on the competition and the loss of drive. Somewhere along the road, CF just became routine for me. I stopped pushing myself and became content. After my performance this past weekend though, things are changing. I will no longer be afraid to fail in order to push myself to be stronger to succeed. I will get my muscle up and I will master dubs. I will surpass my BS and press plateau.

The gloves are off.

Since I pretty much just started I’m still in awe of how strong everyone is, especially the ladies. My goals are pretty much the same as Pooja’s – being able to do a “regular” pushup, be able to do pullups without a band, be able to do a WOD without modification.

Great post Sean! I think that’s what drew me to Crossfit in the first place. It’s the kind of activity that requires a kind of drive from the mind and heart that you don’t really find anywhere else.

My goals are to learn kipping pull ups in the next the month (no bands), to start learning HSPUs, muscle ups and pull overs, and to perfect my lifting technique (pretty much all of mine need work) so I can start setting some lifting goals. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I’ll be able to set more specific goals!

Sean, Ruth, Avelyne and Jake, I didn’t get a chance to say congrats on a job well done in the competition. I got to watch your heats and you guys killed it. Job well done and it was great to see CF Intrepid represented well at the NLP. We’ll see you guys in December at the next event!

As my doggie Maile would say, “I LOVE the Chase”.
My fire and drive comes from all you hard core Intrepid Ladies!! Every day that I walk into the gym, look at the board and I pick a lovely lady to chase. Then it’s ON!!
Thank you Ruth, Avelyn, Anna, Alia, Becky and Jenna for lighting a fire under my ass that is causing that freakin burning smell
Goals:
1. Beat Mike!!
2. No More Bands (Pull-ups by my b-day, Hand stand push-ups, ring dips . . .)
3. Faster run times
4. Master Cleans and Snatches
5. Complete bench mark WODs Rx’d

Love all the comments today. Keep up the great work everyone!

Little late to this post…

Thanks for bringing this up Sean!

My number one goal (and really the reason I enjoy CrossFit so much) is to reach the point of absolute exhaustion in every workout. You know, that feeling when you have nothing left to push yet somehow find energy through encouragement of your peers or your own mental adrenaline to finish the WOD. If I can reach that point every day and learn to push that boundary of giving up further and further away, then each day will be improvement over the next. This “goal” seems to be a never-ending one (you can continue to push your threshold), but obtaining the ability to ignore fatigue and strengthening my mental strength will give me complete confidence in competing and succeeding in CrossFit. This sort of skill is something CrossFit teaches us all to use in everyday life, not just in the walls of Intrepid .

Echoed my thoughts exactly Nick (on all accounts even being late), however i will have to add my goal of not getting my butt kicked by a jump rope anymore.

Excellent post Sean, I really enjoyed reading this and all the responses. Also, best of luck to Henry in his pursuit, hopefully Crossfit is helping you achieve it!

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