Clear The Room

You open the door and step inside the box to find what you always find: Smiling people, barbells, friends, and chalk - things you love. Then you head to the locker room to change, only to return and find something different.

The room which was filled with your most cherished things moments ago, is now a house of horrors that would make Gomez Adams call the fucking Ghostbusters. Our workouts are terrifying most times - and they should be. As they say, if your workout doesn't scare you a little it's not hard enough. Fortunately (or unfortunately as it were) it takes quite a bit to scare us these days. After you've strapped on your lifting shoes and compression shorts you find that the smiling faces and beloved bumper plates have been replaced by a legion of demons. Twisted, evil, frightful things that are about as pleasant to look upon as Sarah Jessica Parker's century old, fore-skin covered neck.

...the darkness will subside, the light will prevail.

Welcome to hell - your own personal house of horrors. Just like Yoda said, the only thing in this room is what you brought with you. Apparently, we have some issues that would make Freud choke because there's some nasty shit in there. There's good news, though; you don't have to stay. You can fight your way back into the light. We can turn that room back to it's pre-WOD state, all we have to do is face those fears. Clear the room.

You can take them all on at once like Constantine Vs. a room full of demons, or pick them off one by one like "god" in Navy Seals. When you've taken down and beaten all those things that you brought with you, the darkness will subside, the light will prevail. You'll be back where you started; in the warm company of your comrades. This happens each day, every workout. The skies grow dark, and time comes to a standstill while you fight for an eternity that is just a blink to the rest of the world.



Clear the room with your spiritual AK-47 and send those demon bitches back to their hole until the next workout. That room full of gargoyles is there for a reason. It's there because it has to be. It's there because we need something to fight. It's the wellspring of character and development of the soul. Wasting all the unwanted shit in that room one thruster at a time is the road to your salvation. You know they'll be there waiting, so don't enter with trepidation. Walk into that room like a boss, and take care of business.

Finally, take a look at this. This video should end just about every argument or excuse anyone has ever had about how they "can't" do something. Shut up and do it. This is remarkable...thanks to CrossFit 215 for passing it along.