Have you ever walked into the gym and looked at the board only to see a repeated movement from earlier in the week? ”Squats? Again?” “But we ran YESTERDAY?!” Yes, CrossFit is a constantly varied sport, but it is also functional. Functional movement is described as movement that pertains to your everyday life be it picking up your toddler or groceries, lifting heavy boxes, or walking up stairs.
There’s a great video of Dave Castro paralleling our complaints of repeated movements with a swimmer telling his coach, “But Coach, we swam yesterday!” Granted, we try to keep the WODs constantly varied, but every once in a while, we may throw a curve ball and *gasp* throw in situps or squats back to back. For example, take last week’s squat intensive Bear, Front Squat Max, and then Fran! Embrace the suck, and power through.
WOD – 5.18.09
1000m Row, then 3 rounds of:
- 20 Box Jumps
- 10 Wall Balls (20/14#)
Cash Out: Max Kipping Pull Ups
Congrats to Lauren, for getting her first kipping pull up this morning!!
Nice Lauren! Congrats on getting your kip down, that’s awesome!
Yeah Lauren! All those years of running couldn’t keep you grounded forever!
Jeanine was also putting in a helluvan effort to try to get 2 in a row, the ladies were rockin’ it this morning!
Here’s me — WOD 11:3?….Cash out 40
Used a 30 inch box, I knew if I did any less I’d hear about it from Stephen.
I liked yesterday’s workout better
24″ box, 20# wallball
10:12
C/O: 22 PU
Mad props to Ryan, Simon and Jose for all doing Karen AFTER this WOD. (Crazy bastards!)