crossfit was formed ostensibly for people to become functionally fit. The problem is, now it is just a "sport" about working out. If you look at the athletes, I would argue there is equal functionality to a 6'6" 340 lb lineman in the nfl. Both are perfectly built for what they do, functionality however is a funny word.
The problem with functional fitness is that almost none of us need to be fit at all. If somebody weighed four hundred pounds they could still function in my current life. Possibly less happy, possibly losing some of the mobility of things I enjoy but they would be more or less functional.
The most fit I have ever been was during my sophomore year of college when I was training as an All-American track and field sprinter. But at that point I weighed 135 pounds at 5'10".
My most muscular was when I ran a construction company, I would stare at myself in the mirror and wonder how I could look so good and feel so bad. Every day hurt, and work was actually work.
Both times, the goal was not fitness, it was respectively to be as fast as possible and to try to make money by working more.
We have rejected holiness in our religion because if we pursue holiness then we are admitting that there are times when we and others are not holy, and that is judgemental.
I think we love fitness because we are allowed to tell somebody "I'm just trying to be healthier".
Let's say you are out on the town, and you have a drink with a friend. You are about to order a second and the friend says:
A) No thanks, I'm trying to be healthier so I'm just going to stop at one.
B) No thanks, I'm trying to be holier so I'm just going to stop at one.
One of those answers makes you think your friend is trying to be better and one makes you think your friend is a self righteous blowhard .
The reason we feel that way about people trying to holy is because we all have had a friend who was working on being holy and they simply became ridiculous. They turned judgey and went overboard on a lot of things.
These people took the functional holiness that Jesus offers us and turned it into crossfit.
Jesus did twenty pullups, I can do thirty and then climb a rope.
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