January 4th, 2012
macrichard

Crossfit Lessons #1: The Poison of Comfort

2011 will forever be remembered as the year I met Crossfit. Under the able coaching and frequent harangue of Web Smith (@CrossfitChron), who also redesigned my blog, I discovered a whole new world of training that I’d never known before. In discovering Crossfit, I also discovered some immutable laws of life that transcend working out and strengthen performance as a husband, a dad, a pastor, and life in general.

The first Crossfit Law I learned laid the foundation for all the others. After one of my first workouts, as I was huffing and puffing, thinking I had really worked hard, Web grinned his big gap-toothed grin and said,

I gotta get you comfortable with being uncomfortable.

It wasn’t that I wasn’t working. It was this: I wasn’t working hard enough at the right things. And, if it hadn’t been for his accountability, I never would’ve made the gains that I did.

Comfort crushes growth. Every time. Everywhere. In my faith, marriage, work, training, parenting—Comfort crushes growth and feeds mediocrity. When I broke through the comfort ceiling in working out, I started noticing little pockets of comfort I had allowed to sprout in other areas of my life. And I started rooting them out because mediocrity scares me more than failure. With failure, at least something is attempted.

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Mac is married to Julie, and they have two teenage children. He is the pastor of Lake Hills Church which he and Julie helped launch in Austin, TX in 1997. He is passionate about Christ, his family, the local church, getting to live in Austin, Lyle Lovett, Waylon Jennings, saltwater fly fishing, hunting, and playing dominoes with his family.

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