Re-examining

OK... so getting the posts up for every workout with the results has become tedious... already. It shouldn't be tedious, it should be fun! If it's tedious, then there's something wrong and it's time to re-examine how and why I'm going about things. So here's what I'm thinking. Very basically, I want to...

• List my Fitness goals.
• Track and comment on my progress towards those goals.

So, for the goals I already have a few that I've shared with others, but I'm going to re-evaluate those as well and see where I might want to make changes. As far as tracking progress that may be best done by noting the benchmark stuff. Workouts where I'll be doing them again in the future at some point so I can make a comparison and see if I'm any better.

I'm considering using performance on workouts as my main tool of measurement, and just not even weighing myself at all. At least resorting it to secondary status. The reason being that if I improve workout performance (especially in bodyweight type workouts) weight loss will happen automagically! It will be a side-effect of my efforts to improve performance. If I want to get, say, 25 rounds in Cindy, then it just ain't gonna happen if I weigh 300 lbs. (or if it does, just start calling me Superman!). :P

In re-evaluating, I think I'm more motivated by performance. Saying I've lost a bunch of weight would be (and has been in the past) pretty cool. But being able to say that I did a 25 round Cindy as Rx would be pretty freaking awesome!

I'm remembering the Kelly Starret vid where he's talking to the trainers telling him how what he does isn't as cool as some of the other Crossfit subject matter experts. That he's the f'ing stretching guy. Ha! :D He goes on to explain that he sells it by telling you that it will increase your performance. You will get a faster time, be able to lift more, be able to jump higher. Similar thing here. If my main 'vision' is to be able to absolutely kill any and all Crossfit WODs (be really good at any type of workout for any non-Crossfitters reading this), in order to make significant progress towards that goal then everything else (eating 'right', working out regularly, etc) will have no other chance but to happen.