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\"IMG_3033\"<\/a> Fatherhood is an aspect of my life I would not trade for the world.\u00a0 When I am asked, \u201cwhat do you do?\u201d\u00a0 My first response is always, \u201cI am a father of 2!\u201d\u00a0 Juggling busy schedules from games, practices, performances, ceremonies and the other activities have been a crazy part of my life and I can\u2019t wait for the next game or awards banquet.\u00a0 But, another important factor in my life (and now in my family\u2019s life) is CrossFit.<\/p>\n

I found CrossFit a couple years back.\u00a0 I was really reluctant to \u201cdrink the Kool-Aid\u201d (as we say) but once I did; I haven\u2019t looked back.\u00a0 I have been setting PR\u2019s, doing WODs (Workout of the Day), practicing my snatch, and perfecting my butterfly.\u00a0 I have done competitions, fund raised for causes, became a coach, and even a co-owner of a box (that\u2019s what CrossFitter\u2019s call the gym).\u00a0 My Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram posts are a good blend of family and CrossFit.\u00a0 As you might tell, CrossFit has become an important part of my life.<\/p>\n

A parent must lead by example and as my children saw my wife and I pouring out sweat, changing habits, getting better, feeling better, and getting fit; their interest peaked a little.\u00a0 Then came a competition, the CrossFit Open, and hitting new PR\u2019s; they wanted to learn about what we did. \u00a0Next came the home gym looking different, a rower, a pull up bar installed; now they wanted to do some of the movement.\u00a0 Then I joined a box and became a coach; they saw a totally different world of CrossFit and this lead them to doing their first WOD.<\/p>\n

Now, my family will do WODs together and sometimes they get a little competitive (my 16 year old really can\u2019t stand it when I beat him).\u00a0 My children want to learn more and more about how to better themselves through working out.\u00a0 They understand the importance of baby steps in form and that pulling a light weight with proper form is better than a heavy weight with bad form.\u00a0 They understand the importance of mobility and stretching and how it helps everywhere.\u00a0 They understand that failing is ok but quitting isn\u2019t.\u00a0 They understand that they can\u2019t always be the best and that cheering and supporting the last place person is almost better than being the first place person.\u00a0 They understand the importance of healthy eating and how it helps being fit.\u00a0 They understand that being fit not only helps with sports but with life.<\/p>\n

\"FullSizeRender\"My kids always wanted to just do what interested them.\u00a0 \u201cDad, I want to play soccer, or football, or gymnastics, or baseball, or basketball, or do the school play.\u201d\u00a0 But with CrossFit, they became curious over time, fascinated as they watched and learned, and became CrossFitters.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t jump into it because their friends were doing CrossFit but because we were.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t forced, it wasn\u2019t talked about; it was just done and they saw then became a CrossFitter.<\/p>\n

A parent must lead by example whether it be the late college student, opening a door for someone, saying please, smiling, or with CrossFit, we did and our kids followed our lead; we became and have stayed a CrossFit Family because of the shear fact that fitness is for any age, any level, and is apparently cool with the young crowd.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0article\u00a0was written by Eric Williams, brother of Richie Williams (St. Louis Dad). Find out more about Eric<\/a> and CrossFit<\/a> by visiting CrossFitNorthCounty.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fatherhood is an aspect of my life I would not trade for the world.\u00a0 When I am asked, \u201cwhat do you do?\u201d\u00a0 My first response is always, \u201cI am a father of 2!\u201d\u00a0 Juggling busy schedules from games, practices, performances, ceremonies and the other activities have been a crazy part of my life and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Family and CrossFit #dadbloggers #crossfit","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,7,10],"tags":[12,169,170,147,168,19,11],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-inside","category-real-talk","tag-blog-2","tag-crossfit","tag-exercise","tag-family","tag-guest-post","tag-inside-fun","tag-realtalk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3033.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-bo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}