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One of the things I find interesting about CrossFit is how it is often the most unexpected workouts or exercises that crush us the most. A workout will come up and it will seem fairly mundane but will somehow leave you a devastated twitching mess at the end, occasionally the pendulum swings the other way and a workout which looks on the surface to have come straight from the garage gym of satan isnt nearly as bad as expected, but this is not a common event
One of the things that people seem to learn fairly quickly with CrossFit is that the less there is written on the whiteboard and the less equipment there is set up for the workout, the more scared they should be. There in lies one of the benefits of anyone new to CrossFit, the blissful ignorance of the suffering that 'Fran' or FGB can bring. Which brings me to my point and to the picture of the monkey up top, after doing CrossFit for a while you know what workouts & exercises you like and the ones you really dont like. Unfortunately the CrossFit prescription of constantly varied means that on a very regular basis you must do things you do not like, and herein lies one of the beauties of CrossFit, on a regular basis you get the opportunity to get the monkey off your back and become a more rounded athlete.
For me the workout monkey is "Barbera", there is nothing outrageous in the workout just bodyweight movements, Im not adverse to any of them yet when they come together in this workout i really really hate doing it and it seriously messes me up, but I dont avoid it, when it comes up I do it and I like to think that each time it comes up I hate it a little less (not much but a little).
What is your workout/exercise monkey, has it got better/worse over time and do you think you'll ever shake it?
Workout
'FGB v2.0'
30-25-20
Wall Balls
SDHP (30/20)
Box Jumps
Push-press (30/20)
Squat Thrusts
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chin ups and double unders are my kryptonite. No matter how much i try i dont seem to get better. personally i think it is kevins fault. He makes it seem easy and that pisses me off.
I keep trying and will get better eventually. I hope.
Mat
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Hehe, just keep at it Matt. You're already seeing 500% improvement on where you were a month ago.
For me, I don't know if there's a particular WOD that kills me, but at the moment I really hate ring dips. Actually if you made a WOD with high-reps of ring dips and box jumps, that would probably be the worst.
Hopefully will be back training tonight. Managed to catch a cold over the weekend - resting sucks.
anything with double unders (struggle to coordinate these) or handstand pushups.
burpees suck the wind right out of me, that's about the only thing i can think of.
emma - 18:45 (destroyed it!)
steve - 20:30
rob - 21:27
Ant - 21:50
kate - 22:45 (hope your not too broken..)
josh - 27:14
mat s - 27:18
absolute crushing workout that left pretty much everyone twitching on the floor, awesome!
Overhead squats....overhead squats.....overhead squats......overhead squats
So far it's pull ups and dips for me. I struggle to keep going with a full RoM on them ... other stuff I've done so far I know i can do, it's just the mental discipline to push through with the reps.
ring dip and overhead squat workout on its way...
interesting mix of skill and strength based moves people hate. Double unders are something that just requires practice practice practice. Pullups are something that everyone is going to get a whole lot better at in the future, about 2 weeks away from getting extra pulup bars in, once the capacity is there to have basically everyone on a bar at once expect to spend plenty of time working that kip :-)
i love pull-ups don't know why but it's just such a fun exercise for me
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