WOD: Five rounds of 5-squat cleant thruster, 10 Chest to bar pull-ups.
weights: men 135 women 95
My time: 8:58
This Crossfit moment is brought to you today by “heavy squat clean thrusters”.
Yesterday’s WOD is one of the many reasons why Crossfit and the community separates itself from personal trainers and globo-gyms. I went in excited about the workout but already had it planned in my head that I would scale the weight. I’ve done heavy thrusters before but not 135 pound squat clean thrusters and I wanted to really burn the workout so thought it would be best to scale down.
On a regular day I’ll go into the gym and look at the white board to see everyone’s time. I’ll look through and use someone as a guide to what times to shoot for, what weights to use and who to try and beat for time and score. This guide helps me to really get that extra little push and intensity, I’ve been doing it since day one I started cf but then it was don’t come in dead last and month after month I’d pick someone higher and higher to shoot for.
You can walk into a cf gym go up to someone and ask “what was your weight or time”; you can’t do that at a globo-gym or personal trainer.
Here are a couple of conversations for you, first one at a globo-gym:
Me: Hey what did you curl over there
globo-nerd: I did 35 pound dumbbells, eight reps. My guns got a good burnnnnn
Me: Dude I’m going to totally smoke you and do 10 reps because I’m AWESOME!!!!!
globo-nerd: Get away from me dumb a$$ I’m going to work on my pecks then hit the tanning bed.
Now if you go up to someone in a cf gym and have a similar conversation:
Me: What was your time today?
Crossfit addict: It’s tough one today, I got 8:57
Me: Not bad, I assume I’ll get 8:56 or better because I’m AWESOME!!!!!
Crossfit addict: Hahahaha you dummy, not a chance you’ll gas after the first round.
The difference is they’ll stay around and watch, cheer you on to beat them, be excited if you do beat them and be just as excited if you don’t, then after you can still talk trash, have fun and grab a beer.
So back to yesterday, I went in thinking I’d scale the wod then looked at the white board and saw Levi did level 3, when I saw that I said to myself “Fu**ing levi, A$$ Face, Butt munching, pain in my junk” Now I’m not taking anything away from levi, he’s a stud, but weighs a lot less than me. I originally wanted to scale but since I saw he did level 3 at 135 pounds, I felt obligated to do it too. Which was a good thing because I had a good wod, got it completed in a decent time. So ultimately that whiteboard again helped push me to something I wouldn’t voluntarily do on my own.
Again, this Crossfit moment is brought to you today by “heavy Squat Clean Thrusters” and Fu**ing levi, the “A$$ Face, Butt munching, pain in my junk”
p.s. and yes, I beat Levi's time(cough cough by over 3 minutes cough cough), not that it's important to point that out butttt I'M AWESOME!!!!!!!
cough cough You do this with YOUR BODY WEIGHT and we'll talk cough cough...
ReplyDeleteI watched Daniel do his body weight and beat Jon's time. And he didn't cough at all.
ReplyDeleteLevi, why would I tell a story where we did a Cindy wod where you'd kill me. I tell the Heavy Deadlift and double under stories where I rock the house :)
ReplyDeleteDaniel did the wod? what did he get, dan didn't post times and I can't see him beating Jons, that would literally be daniels body weight to do squat clean thruster.