I hear people complaining the gym about workouts being to hard, about people saying "I can't do that.......... thats impossible!" New members struggling to do pull ups thinking they will never get it. In fact I can tell you first hand that some people are so lazy that they have actually stopped coming to the gym because they do not like the soreness that they get from their muscles. They think some of the workouts are too hard. This is even with scaling, dropping it way back to basics. See the problem is that some people think that if everything isn't given to them on a plate then life is just to freaking hard.

Well what most of us saw on the weekend was nothing short of abolutley AMAZING. See I have trained athletes that are not as fortunate as some before. Individuals bracketed as special needs. Everyone knows about the Para Olympics and those athletes are very well respected and stronger mentally and physially that many of us able bodied individuals. BUT on the weekend at CrossFit Brookvale many of us saw an athlete compete who was BLIND!!!!

I saw this guy standing there with his friend/guide/trainer. He had his cane standing in the front row, and I thought it was great that he had come to support. I was wrong!! Next heat he walks up the back sets up his deadlift bar all by feel......... His guide walks him to the box jumps where the athletes feels around and gets his bearings of the distance between box and deadlift bar. I didn't think it was real........... Training an athlete is one thing but having that athlete compete in something as technical as a CrossFit workout, well that takes courage, strength, commitment. I thought it was AMAZING! I had goose bumps watching this guy compete. He didn't just complete the workout he was actually very very very competitive. I do not know his name. I am not sure where he trains at, but that young man is someone I look up to.

For those people who think CrossFit is to hard, that they have to get fitter before they train, that think they are too old to start or just think a bit of muscle soreness is to much to live with............ take a leaf out of this guys book. He is everything CrossFit represents.

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