CrossFit South Bay | Hermosa Beach, CA

An ancient Japanese proverb goes something like this: “Sometimes we must look through a lens of pain to be able to see clearly.”

Pain extends its touch to many facets of conscious thought and biochemical signaling. Once was the agony of discomfort feared, for at one time my ability to cope was incommensurate to it’s ability to consume. Living however is not so different a paradox to the observed natural way of all things. A black and white, rain and fire, health and disease, misery and glory, a yin and yang. Without the knowledge of death, is life so cherished; without the sorrow of heartbreak is true love embraced; without defeat in failure is success as sweet? Does a good man exist if there is no antagonist to set the oppositional example. Is it so odd then, that life seems fuller, more fruitful, and flourishing when pain is experienced more frequently. Pain can be defined simply as a sensory perception felt by an electrical signal sent through a conduit of biochemical conductors. Though without it, humanity is lost, for it is directly related to all things which truly make us humane.

I will endure through the pain. Those who choose to endure it with me are my allies. We stand in wait, and will not be held down.

“A man of pleasure is a man of pains” – Edward Young

“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience” – Julius Caesar

“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment” – Jim Rohn

“Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain and perish in our own” – Francis Thompson

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain” -William Faulkner

“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.” – Saint Bartholomew

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain” – Carl Jung

“Pain is no longer pain when it is past” – Margaret J. Preston

“Pain is weakness leaving the body.” – Daniel R. Evans

“Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.” – Robert Gary Lee

“The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain” – Sarah Williams

“When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy” – Salmon Rushdie

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WOD 1/29/2009

Handstand Push-Ups Max Rep x 3

30 double unders
10 Bodyweight Backsquat
30 double unders
8 Bodyweight Backsquat
30 double unders
6 Bodyweight Backsquat
30 double unders
4 Bodyweight Backsquat
30 double unders
2 Bodyweight Backsquat

Optional:
5 x 600M Sprint (1 time around block) holding fastest possible pace without slowing more then 5 sec per fastest 600. 90 second recoveries
Suicide Sprints x 3