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We all know the “in the middle of Murph” feeling: your legs and lungs are burning and you look over at the clock or the whiteboard and think, for the love of god, I am only halfway there.
You start negotiating with yourself in your mind: one voice says screw it, I don't want to do this anymore, and another says hang in there, just one rep at a time….
We spend hours and hours honing our craft in the gym, working hard, recording our results in order to improve. We encourage each other, change our eating habits, drink less, mobilize. But most of these practices are futile if we aren't taking care of what is going on between our ears. Mindset and mental toughness are the hallmarks of progress in both CrossFit and in our lives. If we aren't tending to that in the same way we are practicing our double unders, then what are we even doing?
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