Why Do You Train?

…And we’ll keep on fighting to the end. Dunn dunn dunn dunn dunn. Team 1, known the world over as Dark Side established itself early as the team to beat in the CT Ultimate Fall League and maintained their momentum all the way through the last week of the season where they ended up on top. All is right with the world.

And now it’s over. My beautiful, fun Ultimate Frisbee season has come to a close. I was able to learn and play a new sport, as outlined in Crossfit’s 100 Word Definition of Fitness, and thoroughly enjoyed it, even in the cold.

That’s what fitness should be about though. I don’t believe that being fit, or achieving fitness should really be what it’s all about. Certainly I would suggest going to the gym regardless of the goal involved if for nothing else than heart health and decreased risk of stroke and cancer. If you enjoy going to the gym for the sake of going to the gym, good for you, I kind of do too, but getting strong and fast for the sake of getting strong and fast isn’t half as appealing to me as getting strong and fast for a sport. Organized sports, whether they’re competitive (like Summer Frisbee) or just for fun (Fall/Winter Frisbee), are where you can test yourself to see how far you’ve come.

I saw my family (and by family I mean a whole lot of family) this weekend and when I told my dad that my Frisbee season had just ended he asked if there was a hockey league around. He knows that I love competition and that having an end-goal is important to me. While I’m not sure there is a hockey league in middle CT, or that I could even play as well as when I was 12, or that I could afford the equipment, but having something to do, besides squatting, is good for me and he knows it.

Winter Frisbee starts in January and it could be fun to play, especially because it’s indoors. But I’m not sure that I will, the hours are screwy, it’s in North Branford and I hate traveling in the winter. But it is nice to have that conditioning aspect to my life. Playing Frisbee is certainly more interesting than hopping on that treadmill, at least for me.