Training can help us discover our inner strengths, cope with adversity, and use these strengths for greater purpose.

Does doing a really hard workout “honor” someone killed in battle? No. So what are we left with?

Structuring the benchmark Girls as time-constrained tests provides a method to help your athletes mature into accomplished CrossFitters.

Just because one can, doesn’t mean one should. It’s the quickest way to “CrossFitter’s doin CrossFit” immortality.

When your breathing gets the hardest, when you are clamoring for breath, dig deep and go a little harder.

What I am asking for is that we invoke that same sense of honor and tribute when “Amanda” is done as when "Murph," "Badger," or "Michael" comes up in the feed.

Birthday WODS, and their ilk, are just an indicator or a much larger issue - you don’t program. Think about it. If you have room in your schedule for birthday WODS, then you don’t have a schedule.