The Ghost of Goals Past

I am all for goal setting exercises and one of my coaches, in their infinite wisdom, told me, after our Elements class, to write down some goals that I wanted to achieve (see: http://morbidobeastity.blogspot.com/2013/07/gooooooooals.html) 

So uhh... yeah, I found my beast mode tonight and met two of my goals. Well, technically I met one of my goals tonight and the other I've continued to achieve since I set it a few months back.

The first goal was to go to class 3 times a week and go in with a positive attitude, motivate the people around me, and compete with myself and not others. I finally realized over the last 3 months that you can only really measure progress when you are comparing apples to apples, and that means comparing you now to your past self. You have no idea what other advantages or disadvantages people have just by looking at how they perform. So every day I go hard and try to improve my own performance bit by bit through consistency and sheer positivity.

The second goal I crushed tonight. I wanted to get on the board for a lift at my box. And not only did I get on the board for one, I got on the board for two. And I know I can do more, but for tonight, this was good enough. I will continue to push myself independent of my performance tonight.

Strict press - 113lbs
Push press - 135.5 lbs

Thanks to my shoulders for not giving out. Thanks to the cool weather for allow me to grip the bar with purpose. But mostly... thanks to my coaches and fellow WODers that make me want to show up and work hard and have a blast every time I turn onto Garfield Avenue.