There are major life changes required for minor athletic improvements, a gigantic social anchor that will keep you away from alcohol, restaurants, nightclubs, and the like. Your fun becomes nine hours of sleep, a balanced diet, copious stretching and icing, and a manic desire to approach every workout like the gold medal round of the CrossFit Games. Your sole focus becomes waking up in the morning with improvement as your only goal. Your fun is not fun.



The difference between a 3:22 and 2:59 "Fran” time is not measured in seconds, it is measured by an unreasonable and foolhardy commitment to masochism, combined with a compulsive and obsessive attention to lifestyle details. You do not end up here unintentionally! You have got to want those twenty-three seconds more than anything else on earth, and then you’ve got to earn it with relentless dedication and spirit.

Always remember that once you hit your goal, you must never settle and you will immediately set the next goal that takes you to an even greater level.