People are going to get hurt when restrictions are lifted and everyone is allowed to return to the gym. The good news is that you can be back in your gym on day one, and you don’t have to be one of them.

You joined your gym to get in great shape so that you could live a long time, look great naked, be desirable, have self confidence, and feel amazing. When the gym got taken away from you, it’s likely that you realized you can still accomplish all of those things without the gym, and yet, we all want to get back to it as fast as possible. Why? Because the gym, the CrossFit gym in particular delivers far more than all of those things. It offers a social outlet and membership to a tribe. It is important that you remember this when you go back. Here’s why.

Think back to your first CrossFit workout ever. You probably didn’t know how to work through the discomfort yet. You had no idea how hard you could push yourself, and you didn’t understand the value of...