Better Than Yesterday

In January of this year I was informed I had broken my L5 vertebra putting me into a back brace for 17 weeks.  This clearly meant no training, but more devastatingly for me it meant I lost the 2012 CrossFit season…

As it stands today I am 12 weeks back into working out, and so far, pain free.  I took the first 10 weeks to complete a strength program that Chris Mason helped me compile.  The program brought my strength back to equal or better than ever!

With my strength back in order, I have renewed my focus on my metcon and high skill movements (in the CrossFit world metcon is a word used to denote conditioning – in my personal definition the ability to push through “the wall”). I still have a ways to go with respect to these attributes.  Things that were easy before are a struggle now. 

Enter panic stage left…. I’m scheduled to compete the first weekend of October and I’m not feeling ready at all.  Instead of continuing to beat myself up I called in a few favors from coaches that are better than me.   One is a CrossFit expert, and one a life expert. That’s right… a life coach.

My life coach peeled back the onion that is me, and we discovered the root of my stress.  I never think I’m good enough.  What a statement…  By the end of the conversation I had a new outlook towards my training; I can’t conquer all my weaknesses in one training session, but I can get better each and every time.

So while it’s important to have big goals, it’s the little things you do every day that will get you there. You may not hit your goal today, but are you better than you were yesterday?  If you can say yes, you’re on the right track!

Kate ‘killer’ Rawlings

Coca CrossFit

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Kate’s page on AtLarge: http://www.atlargenutrition.com/athletes/kate-rawlings