Mid Ohio CrossFit & Mat Club

Why we choose CrossFit

Why CrossFit?
Why do we do CrossFit? Who really relies on the results of their fitness to preserve their lives? Soldiers, Police and Fire fighters. What is being adopted throughout the Special Forces communities, Secret Service, US Marshals, FBI, ATF, Police Departments, Fire Departments and many other people who rely on fitness to preserve their lives? CrossFit. When it comes to an endeavor where being weak costs you your life, they do CrossFit. Most of us do not require that level of fitness in our daily lives. Why train this hard? If you look at a continuum when on one side is residing in a nursing home and the other end the decathlete (Or similar well rounded capable individual), ask this simple question: Which place do I want to be in? Time, aging, and lifestyle conspire to put us in long term care homes and alike. The harder we pull toward the elite side of the continuum, the less close we are to the nursing home. If teaching a 57 year old women to dead lift 200 plus pounds seems extreme, think of the grandmother who can't pick up her #20 grandson. Which place do you want to be in? Very few of us will get to the level of being on the CrossFit website for some outstanding physical feat. We CAN all work diligently to achieve the best effort and results our age and ability allow us to achieve. All the training we do at Mid Ohio CrossFit is influenced largely by CrossFit principles. Whether it is Basic Training, Boot Camp, CrossFit, Self-Defense, or Private Training, much of what we do is based on functional exercises, executed at high intensity that are varied to the point of near randomness. Why? Our goal is to create people who are capable in ALL aspects of fitness. When the SEAL Teams and Special Forces adopt Swiss balls as a major tool to keep them alive when it counts, I will buy them. Until that time, we will do CrossFit.

June 04, 2009

"Character"

According to Wikipedia.... Character

Character or moral character is an evaluation of a particular individual's moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, and loyalty, or of good behaviors or habits. Moral character primarily refers to the assemblage of qualities that distinguish one individual from another. Psychologist Lawrence Pervin defines moral character as "a disposition to behave expressing itself in consistent patterns of functioning across a range of situations"

Let's break down this defintion:

Character or moral character is an evalutation of a particulr individual's moral qualities.

Morality means a code of conduct which is held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong. Morals are created and defined by society, philosophy, religion, or individual conscience.

The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of virtues such as...

Integrity

Integrity is consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations and outcome.

Courage

Courage, also known as bravery, will, intrepidity, and fortitude, is the ability to confront fear, pain, risk/danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.

Fortitude

Fortitude is the strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage

Honesty

Honesty is the truth

Loyalty

Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person or cause

Habits

Habits are acquired patterns of behavior that often occur automatically

Moral character primarily refers to the assemblage of qualities that distinguish one individual from another.

"Person of Character": one must exhibit the Virtues of Intergrity, Courage, Fortitude, Honesty, Loyalty and Habits (Good Habits).

Are you a Person of Character?

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