We Got Soul!

[Chase Foy]

Does your gym have soul? Not just pull-up bars and barbells and
athletes and firebreathers and Lulu mamas and snatching grandpas, but
soul. Real, salt-of-the-earth, tail-wagging, wise-assing, booty-
making, hip-driving “I seriously give a shit about you” soul. Some
CrossFit gyms have it, and some . . . well, they must be looking for
it.

See, soul is a hard thing to quantify or produce, but it’s crucial in
CrossFit. It’s one of the things that makes us different from the
others.


I’d rather workout in a hole with soul than the most beautiful place
in the world . . . if it wasn’t real.
I don’t want more shiny surface in this life — I’ve seen enough
surface to last me a lifetime. I want real.

I’m not sure how you get real, I just know it when I feel it. And so
do most people. In fact, I’d wager that most CrossFitters are people
who left behind other routines and other gyms and other lives because
they just felt . . . empty. That’s why the CrossFit box is so
important to us: in a world of surface, it’s a place to be real.