Crossfit Reflection

When I was looking for something different to try in fitness other than the solitary workouts I had been doing for years, I gave CrossFit a try. Coming into my first class, I felt that I had a proper sense of lifting form and was cautious enough. Before we did squats, we would get a PVC pipe and practice lowering our thighs with our feet appropriate length apart and flat. I went through this practice without much thought, rather thinking about how much I was going to be able to squat. Within our first set, one of the CrossFit instructors stopped at my rack and watched my form for a couple of reps. When I put the bar back, he asked if I had ankle issues. I denied, puzzled. He led me on an exercise that would check the balance of my ankles. Much

I was wondered why my grades were not what they wanted to be while ignoring my immediate environment. I created my own perpetual cycle of discontent. One day, after a year of torrents, I asked a friend of mine who was faring more successful than myself what he did. He told me that he kept a regular schedule. He woke up at the same time, went to bed at the same time, and kept his studying routine intact. When I asked him what I could change based from his impression of me, he told me bluntly that I drink too much alcohol and I let it affect me. He had never drunk alcohol and to this day doesn’t. At the time, I felt I was ready to hear that because of my current state of affairs. I was open to the suggestion that I shouldn’t drink, especially if it would make my life better. I tried it, but I didn’t change my immediate environment, and I underestimated the power it had on me. I would create a new cycle. My friend would follow up, but he didn’t provide much challenge to my accountability. I would convince myself that I was fine enough to have a few more drinks than usual after periods of success and create new pitfalls in my life which would lead to guilt pertaining to drinking. It’s an issue that I’ve dealt with since then and I still do to varying success and failures. I don’t know if cutting out alcohol completely if for myself, but I don’t want a serious event to come out of a time I