REDEMPTION ROAD CROSSFIT

Fitness of the mind is more important than the body for many reasons. First, the body is controlled by the mind and what the body is capable of comes down to this body-mind interface. Secondly, a brain must be in balance, academia is the greatest path toward strengthening the left-brain, while exercise strengthens the right-brain. Thirdly, without a mind a body is a corpse. Fitness is a physical representation of your muscular strength, but it is more than that: it is heavily dependent on constant determination. Fourthly, the way you speak and conduct yourself is the outward representation of the internal body-mind-emotion balance. A fit person does not leave his determination at the gym, he carries it with him everywhere he goes.

Fitness of the soul is our goal. A man that believes in nothing will fall for anything, and our goal is to develop belief in our lives. That belief stars by the recognition that life is meaningful, and that the lives of people are worth an infinite amount. We do all that we do as social creatures, and so we must respect life. Pain and misery has characterized our former ways of life, conducted by immaturity. A fit soul is willing to mature and take responsibility, in others words: to become an adult. A fit soul is quick to listen and slow to speak and slow to anger. 

Influences change our lives whether good or bad, and so we strive to surround ourselves with others that use responsible language with respectable thoughts. Those influences should reflect the character that we strive for, if we are to be fit. A good influence will not support you in walking down the wrong path, they will not assist you in doing wrong. A good influence will push you to achieve your greatest potential in all three areas of fitness, and then take a greater step by doing it with you. These goals are not achieved in isolation. When you go down the wrong path, a good influence will call you out on it and point out your error, but then help you back up. 

These are the things promoted in the program. CrossFit is a series of routines that challenge the body and the mind to their limits, and is community based. In this program we want to connect men in prison with the world of CrossFit, and to give them a healthy family that believes in these things as well. A network of pro-social, healthy connections. CrossFit performs workouts in honor of fallen soldiers and fallen officers. When we do these same workouts, we strive to honor these great people with our dedication and sweat. These heroes honor the community by their sacrifice, and we seek to honor the heroes by our recognition of that sacrifice. We remember the valiant things they have done because we admire great people.