What are you supposed to be doing?

"If you aren’t doing what you’re supposed to do, it can have drastic effects on your life."

2 Samuel 11:1 It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

It’s that time of year to start getting ready for the Hotshots CrossFit fundraiser event happening August 24th. Six rounds of 30 squats, 19 power cleans, 7 pull-ups and 400 meter run and I can already tell that I’m not the athlete I was last year, not by a long shot. You can chalk it up to only being able to go to LPC (Legion of Power) once a week or age or focusing more on lifting. Whatever it is, the first training of this event felt like death and I capped out at 46 minutes and 19 seconds with still a run and a round to go. It would be so easy to just not train and come into the event with the attitude of “whatever happens, happens.” But really, is that the smartest way to go?

Rewind about 3,000 years ago (1005-965 BCE) when King David wasn’t prepping for a competition but he was supposed to go out with his army to war because that's what kings did. They were the leaders of the nation and the military. It was his right and duty to do this yet he skipped out on it for reasons unknown to us. Maybe he was tired of fighting or just didn’t feel like it. I get both those reasons. But whatever it was, he wasn’t at the place he was supposed to be, doing what he was supposed to be doing and in that, he ended up getting a married woman pregnant, killing her husband to cover it up and losing the baby ( 2 Samuel 11). No apology could make up for the consequences. His kids turned against each other and against him (2 Samuel 13-18).

I know this is an extreme comparison. The consequences for not training for the Hotshots event isn’t going to get anyone killed, pregnant or anything as drastic as David’s consequences but I can still end up injuring myself, not finishing the WOD or worse yet, not giving myself the opportunity to do my very best. So yes, training can most definitely suck but it helps me identify strengths and weaknesses that I can improve and refine. I am and will continue to do what I should be doing, then we will see how I perform under pressure.