You Don’t Know What You Can Do

Everybody: you have no idea how fit you are.  This is a pretty funny statement, considering that we stress the importance of knowing your times and remembering how much you can lift.  We even have a fancy program (the athletics log) that can calculate your power output for a workout so that you could graph your work capacity across broad time and modal domains!

And while it’s important to know what your max lifts are or what your benchmark scores are, one of the interesting things about our training methodology is that it makes us much better than we realize at things we might not have worked on for a while.  Patricia found this out the other day when she discovered that– after months of not working on them– she had gotten strong enough to hold a handstand.  This is the whole idea: train so that you’ll be good at things you haven’t even trained for!  I wonder what other tasks we are all capable of that we haven’t yet tried.

Post some stories of times when you surprised yourself.