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Matt Chan, 1st Place 94kg Division and overall Event Champion, 2010 USAW/CrossFit Open. (Couldn't help it, had to post the main-site photo – CC)
Checking Your Head in the Game.
I heard a quote; "There is trained and untrained", by Olympian Casey Burgener, when commenting on how he deals with the pressures of game day. He said, nothing should matter, you should be able to wake up and perform no matter if you woke up feeling like dog crap or not. This is because you are either trained or untrained. I have ran this quote over and over in my head, realizing that it is a bit of a linguistic holy grail. So many times athletes want to do better, they continue to put themselves through psychological warfare. Realizing it will not help, only blunt progress, but they do it just the same, and why?
When hearing Casey quote this, I also realized what he meant when he said trained, he was not talking about six month, 1 year or even 4 years. He's an Olympian for goodness sake, he's talking about 10, 12, 15 years of training to prepare him for game day. For some that training comes in many forms even a variety of sports, for others it is sticking to one discipline and committing long enough to see success. It is in my experience that those who succeed are not always the most talented, lucky, or genetically gifted. It is those that are relentless to their goal, health, love, fitness, skill or sport. Those that put in the years, rack up the mileage, forget about small "failures" and celebrate when years later those turn into successes.
It's a hard pill for us CrossFitters to swallow. We want it all and we want it all NOW. I say to that, there is trained and there is untrained, which do you want to be?
