Strong Partner.

This blog is a dedication to my strong Crossfit partner, not only my mother, but my best friend, my confidant, my motivation, my strength, and my teammate throughout this entire Crossfit experience. 

My mom is incredible, and to be honest, I can't even describe in words how truly proud of her I am. There are not many daughters who can say, "My mom Crossfits." For that alone, I am still blown away. 

My mom knows that she's my motivation... Heck, without her I probably wouldn't be doing Crossfit. However, what she doesn't realize is that she is my inspiration. Every workout that she completes, whether it's minutes ahead of me or minutes behind me, she is a machine and a true champion. I am 25, in the prime of my life and my mom is right by my side lifting weights not far away from mine, it's insane! 

It drives me nuts sometimes when she compares herself to me or to others working out because she doesn't really get the chance to step back and take a look at herself. Everyone that sees her in and out of that gym thinks she looks amazing. All of our Crossfit friends, including our trainers, are astonished by how great she is doing. The problem is, she doesn't see that. In fact, she doesn't see a lot... 

She doesn't see the smile on my face when I watch her and see the incredible progress of her deadlifts, front squats, back squats, overhead squats, clean jerks, overhead presses, and God knows what else. 

How about the fact that a month ago, 20 burpees almost made her quit and throw up and last night she did 100. 

Or that a month ago we were pressing nothing more than a bar and 2 green weights (35 pounds) and now it's nothing less that 65 pounds. 

Or that a pull-up seemed impossible even with a band. And now we moved up two bands. Knees to bar? We laughed when we watched the trainers do that because we said no way, and then tonight we did 42 of them. 

I want to be doing what she's doing when I'm at that point in my life and I hope I am. It's incredible and it really does inspire me. 

The crazy part is, my mom does beat me in workouts and it kicks my butt knowing that I have such strong competition by my side. 

The number one rule to crossfit is to remember that you are not competing with anyone in that place other than yourself. You are tracking your own progress, finding your own times for workouts, increasing weights and comparing it to your old max weight. It is all about YOUR OWN progress and nothing else should matter. 

Some awesome pictures of my strong partner :) 

Front squat

Overhead split

Box push ups

Overhead squat 

Farmer's Carry

Ring push-ups

Inverted ring stand

Rope climbs

Burpees

Thanks Mom, without you, I would not be where I am. I could never thank you enough for how you have shaped my life and how you continue to inspire me and make me want to live better. You are a strong, sexy, confidant crossfitting woman and I get to call you mom.