3 reasons CrossFit can make you a better entrepreneur

Tyler Donahue
3 min readApr 30, 2019
Photo by John Arano on Unsplash

The rise of the CrossFit gym did something pretty awesome for the average human(not a professional athlete).

It brought something that resembles the performance-based training used to train professional athletes to us all. Now we get to suffer together like the best in the business ;)

If you haven’t taken a CrossFit class, here is the general premise:

You are put through an exercise circuit with roughly 3–5 different exercises which you complete non-stop for a set time period. The goal is to get as many reps as possible (AMRAP) in the given period of time.

It’s gritty and it’s difficult.

So why does this make me a better entrepreneur/ business owner?

1. It teaches you the value of suffering collectively.

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

One of the first things I noticed at a cross fit gym was that no matter his or her skill level or cardiovascular shape, everyone suffered through the exercise. The only comfort I found in my own pain was that everyone else in the gym was experiencing that pain with…

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Tyler Donahue
Tyler Donahue

Written by Tyler Donahue

Writer @TheHustle @thriveglobal | Founder @th3kindproject @essentialblankets

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