{"id":809,"date":"2026-07-29T09:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vassesc.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:07:13","slug":"exercising-living-beyond-the-whiteboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vassesc.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/exercising-living-beyond-the-whiteboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercising &#038; Living Beyond the Whiteboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why measuring matters\u2026 and how avoiding it is keeping you from becoming who you&#8217;re capable of being<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>PART 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to fitness, I genuinely believe CrossFit got something profoundly right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it profoundly changed the Fitness Industry\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, before anyone starts rolling their eyes, no, I don&#8217;t mean the kipping pull-ups, handstand push-ups, or doing Murph in a weighted vest, even though they made that a thing that everyone uses now&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, what changed the fitness industry was that CrossFit gave ordinary people a reason to care about becoming more capable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time, mums, dads, tradies, teachers, accountants and retirees weren&#8217;t just exercising to burn calories or lose weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People have started chasing their first pull-ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trying to squat their bodyweight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learning to handstand hold, and some even walk on their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Running faster than they did six months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting stronger than they thought possible\u2026. CrossFit made fitness measurable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It gave people a way to see progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And one of the simplest tools it ever introduced was\u2026 the whiteboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good old-fashioned, analog, no need for technology\u2026 whiteboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Covered in names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two little letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simple. Visible. Honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personally, I loved it, still do! Yet somehow, over the last decade (or since I started back in 2015), that whiteboard has become one of the most misunderstood guidance tools in the modern fitness era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today it seems almost fashionable to criticise it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some people call it toxic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They say it promotes comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That it intimidates people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That it creates unhealthy competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be honest, I&#8217;ve heard every argument imaginable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I think those who say this have got it completely backwards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I disagree!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ill say it right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The whiteboard isn&#8217;t the problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Your relationship with it is!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, I&#8217;d argue that the way someone reacts to a whiteboard has very little to do with fitness at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has everything to do with identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve noticed after two decades of coaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two people can finish exactly the same workout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Write exactly the same score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stand in front of exactly the same whiteboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One walks away inspired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other walks away defeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not the workout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not the score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only thing that changed was the story they told themselves about what the score meant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s where this article begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not with fitness. Not with who\u2019s the best, but with psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Truth is, the whiteboard doesn&#8217;t reveal your fitness. It reveals your relationship with yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I&#8217;m about to spend the next couple of hundred words explaining why!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So let&#8217;s begin\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong># 1 &#8211; We have confused measurement with judgement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somewhere along the way, someone decided measuring ourselves is unhealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We don&#8217;t say it outright, but we act like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People like to say things like, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t weigh myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t look at my bank account.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to know.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want my score on the board.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May I be bold and ask a simple question?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How has pretending the number doesn&#8217;t exist ever improved the outcome?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don&#8217;t know how much money you have&#8230; How do you make better financial decisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don&#8217;t know your blood pressure&#8230; How do you improve your health?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don&#8217;t know how many books you&#8217;ve read this year&#8230; How do you know whether you&#8217;re becoming the person you said you wanted to become?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Measurement has never been the enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Measurement is simply information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Information gives feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feedback gives direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Direction creates progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The greatest businesses in the world measure everything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professional sporting organisations measure everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pilots measure everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farmers measure everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet somewhere along the way the fitness industry started telling people they shouldn&#8217;t measure themselves because it might hurt their feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And sorry, but I don&#8217;t buy it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not because feelings don&#8217;t matter. (Well yeah, kind of that, but that\u2019s for another post, which I may have already written about; emotions don\u2019t change measurements. I&#8217;ll have to go and see. Or I&#8217;ve just inspired another Blog Post?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But because avoiding reality has never made anyone stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Physically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emotionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spiritually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or mentally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s what I think has happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve confused measurement with judgement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those are two completely different things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whiteboard never judges you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s an inanimate object!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It simply tells the truth about today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you&#8217;re willing to tell yourself the truth about today&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow becomes something you can actually change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>#2 &#8211;<\/strong> <strong>The whiteboard doesn&#8217;t tell you who you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It tells you what you did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s an enormous difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my favourite books is <em>Transcend by Scott Barry-Kauffman<\/em> and has such a valuable insight into this exact phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, psychology taught that self-esteem came from achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Win more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be more successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Become more impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then you&#8217;ll finally feel good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem though? That\u2019s not how it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because <strong>the moment your identity depends on achievement..<\/strong>. <strong>Achievement owns you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every failure becomes an identity crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every setback becomes personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every person who&#8217;s better than you becomes a threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaufman argues something far healthier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Healthy self-esteem isn&#8217;t built by proving your worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s built by recognising that your worth exists before you&#8217;ve proven anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read that again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;<em>Healthy self-esteem isn&#8217;t built by proving your worth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It&#8217;s built by recognising that your worth exists before you&#8217;ve proven anything.<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because if that&#8217;s true&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then the whiteboard loses its power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your score can&#8217;t determine your value because your value was never attached to the score in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the board becomes what it was always meant to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The questions change\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did I improve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did I hold back?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could I have given more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could I have done more in the days leading up? Weeks? Months?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What am I leaving on the table?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those are productive questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Questions that create growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not shame!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, so many people never ask them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because they&#8217;re terrified the answer might expose them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But expose what? Their fitness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their self-esteem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s why I think the modern conversation around the whiteboard has missed the point entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People think the board creates insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think it simply reveals insecurity that was already there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s uncomfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But discomfort has always been the starting point of growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not the end of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>So why do I think this is such an important topic to discuss???<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I get a front-row seat to watching people change the story they tell themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost every week, someone has this moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They&#8217;re nervous about writing their name on the whiteboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They&#8217;re worried about the score they finished the workout with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They&#8217;re worried someone will judge them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They&#8217;re worried the score somehow says something about who they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the thing is&#8230; <strong>It&#8217;s just a whiteboard.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a piece of white-coated metal with some black marker scribbled across it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has no opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No ability to judge you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet some like to give an inanimate object the authority to determine whether we float or sink on our own sea of self-worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which is crazy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But also, then why do I keep it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, It&#8217;s simple&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a whiteboard can determine whether you feel successful, confident or worthy, then the problem isn&#8217;t the whiteboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem is that you&#8217;ve handed your identity over to something that was never designed to carry it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I don&#8217;t say that to criticise you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I say it because I&#8217;ve been there myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The beautiful thing about the whiteboard is that it exposes that insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whiteboard is a tool not a threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feedback instead of failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A coach instead of a critic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s exactly why I love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fitness becomes about far more than fitness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the stories we tell ourselves change&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You dont stop sleeping in your bed because you think there are monsters under it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bed stays, and you be an adult and realise there are no monsters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>So here is the<\/strong> <strong>Conclusion and a lead into PART 2&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d like to leave you with a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the whiteboard isn&#8217;t the problem&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Part Two, I want to explore why two people can look at the exact same score and walk away feeling completely different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I don&#8217;t think <strong>the whiteboard reveals your fitness.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I think it reveals your relationship with yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And understanding that might just change the way you approach not only the gym&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8230;but every measurement in your life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why measuring matters\u2026 and how avoiding it is keeping you from becoming who you&#8217;re capable of being &#8211; 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