Crossfit HYPE

The process.
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Trusting it will bring you far.
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Show up every day, follow the program, give all of yourself, stay present focusing on today only, not getting caught up in tomorrow because it only ruins our current presence.
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6 years straight of showing up and asking the right questions looks like this.
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The process didn’t really involve picking some lofty goal and only continuing if it was aligned with that goal. “If I don’t make it I’m done” type energy… because expectations are what cause burnout.
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The process is just loving this s**t because it’s what we do.
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The goal is merely just trying to improve every day, in some small little way. Always. Forever.
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Getting more out of ourselves.. and doing that with great intensity, brings great things.
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Video 2 is 180lbs squat clean when Katie first moved here 2020.
Video 3 is 180lbs sn**ch complex on stage at Wodapalooza elite 2024
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Just always giving all of yourself when you show up gets you there.
Whatever self you’ve got, bring all of it.
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It turns 3000th in the world to top 100. Top 100 turns into 6th in the world in her division at the .
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We laugh about our efforts of trying to go to the CrossFit games forever. And that end goal is just a dangling carrot that keeps us accountable…
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But it’s really all of us training together, trying to get the most out of ourselves, that is the real prize. To keep searching for hidden abilities. Digging them out by just trusting the process.
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Katie starts this process over this weekend at trying to crown herself in California to get another shot at the CrossFit games.
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Another opportunity to learn. And keep showing what trust looks like.

Exactly 8 years ago, August 2016, Rick Stephano signed up for his first class at CrossFit HYPE.
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Just as his daughter won the CrossFit Games as a teenager, and was a member for a couple of years already, he then decided he wanted to try CrossFit himself.
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now… the tables have turned, because in this story, the egg came first.
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Class after class. Week after week. Year after year. 8 years straight. He kept showing up.
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8 years in on this journey, enters his first in the 55-59 year old age group.
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An incredible journey filled with a few ingredients that have become familiar as the main driver of success in our sport.
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Consistency, resiliency, intensity.
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Bad day? Still shows up
Shoulder hurts? Still shows up
Drama? Still shows up
Worked late? Still shows up
Opportunity to succeed? Take it and go all in.
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Rick defines this thing we do called “selling your soul” with almost every single workout he attempts. Inspiring to show us, we too can go harder. And it’s the reason he is where he is.
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To have a figure in our lives, who supports those around him the way he does, but just found a way to progress step by step, training alongside us daily…. Is a gift.
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To understand it isn’t about “being special” or gifted… it’s about grit and accountability.
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Proud of his example, and excited to watch him work this weekend.
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Time to sell your soul on that floor, in true Rick “the legend” Stephano fashion.