5 Things the Church Can Learn from Crossfit

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike points out five things the Church can learn from one of the latest fitness crazes, Crossfit:

In Crossfit gyms, you’re seen, you’re known, and you’re missed when you’re not there. How often does someone stop coming to church without us even noticing?
Crossfit is functional fitness, exercises that help you live your life. If we can bridge the gap between what we do on Sunday and our lifestyle, we will see how church helps us be more virtuous in our everyday life.
Crossfit has scaled workouts. Crossfit trainers ask you what you can do. What if we made spiritual exercises tailored to each individual and what they can do?
Crossfit is challenging. Pursuing Jesus is a challenge. What if we challenged Catholics, calling them to something higher?
People doing Crossfit are willing to be led and to learn. What if pastors were more willing to be leaders, and parishioners more willing to be led?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm René Fothermix mitz and this is essential presents.
0:08.1	So there is this, I guess, how would I say that?
0:11.6	You know, there's always new waves of exercising that kind of like sweep the nation, there's
0:16.8	Zumba, there's Pilates, there's whatever, there's this thing called CrossFit.
0:20.6	I'm sure you've heard of it because here's the thing.
0:23.3	If you've ever seen the movie Fight Club, not endorsing the movie Fight Club, but it was
0:26.2	a thing back in the 90s.
0:27.6	Anyways, the number one rule of Fight Club was you don't talk about Fight Club.
0:31.2	If CrossFit had a rule, it would be the number one rule of CrossFit as you always talk
0:34.5	about CrossFit.
0:35.5	So basically anyone who does CrossFit, you probably heard of it because they can't stop
0:39.5	talking about it.
0:40.5	Okay, so what is CrossFit?
0:41.5	Well, there's kind of three elements to it, I think, traditionally.
0:45.0	It's a constantly varied movement for functional fitness performed at high intensity.
0:51.3	So that's kind of the idea.
0:52.3	It's a constantly varied functional movement performed at high intensity.
0:57.0	And so you've seen these boxes or gyms that pop up all over the place because it's this
1:01.5	thing that's really kind of just taken off.
1:04.4	One of the things I've noticed in doing this though is there's a bunch of correlations
1:09.2	or connections or possible connections between CrossFit and the church.
1:12.9	Here's what I mean.
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