What Goes Through Your Head?
WOD, 2.1.10:
Five rounds for time of:
155/105 pound Thruster, 5 reps
5 Muscle-ups (sub 10 pull-ups, 10 dips if you cannot do a MU)
Run 400m
Whewwwwwwwww…glad to post a new blog that, hopefully, will elicit more positive comments than yesterdays’. We all know that CrossFit is mental, if not more than it is physical. Everyone has something that runs through his/her head, which enables him/her to finish a difficult WOD. I have a few favorites:
“Every last person doing this WOD is hurting just as much as you. All you have to do is push a tiny bit harder and you can beat ‘em”
“You live for this stuff. This is why you CrossFit, instead of going to a regular gym.”
“It is only _____ more minutes of pain. You can endure ANYTHING for _____ minutes!”
So, tell us, what runs through your head to help you through a grueling WOD? Please post in the comments section.
If you cannot perform a muscle-up, as Tim from Milford demos, you can do jumping muscle-ups.
Or, you can do 10 ring dips (banded or not) and 10 pull-ups (banded or not).
Get full lock-out (he's gettin' there in this pic) on your thrusters, showing your ears.
Get below parallel in EVERY lift. If you can't, the load is too heavy.
Try to remember POSE running form in your 400s.
And please...remember to wear your pants and shoes....
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8 Responses for What Goes Through Your Head?
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LP:
February 02, 2010 06:03 amThank you Mike…now, what is wrong with the rest of you??? You were all fired up yesterday with some negativity. Now, I am requesting some positivity.
You wanna get motivated, check out this 4 minute clip that Kurt found in the Wall Street Journal today. If this guy can do it, no one has ANY excuses:
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Tricia:
February 02, 2010 06:27 amMy motivation in WODs varies from day to day. It used to be, "please God, let me finish this without throwing up or passing out, please please please!" Sometimes it's the whiteboard, I try to make it my goal to at least beat 2-3 people. A lot of times it's trying to beat myself, adding weight, cutting time, etc. But the majority of the time it's not so much what's I'm telling myself but the screams of motivation and encouragement that I hear going on around me. I LOVE that about our box! Just when that little voice of negativity sneaks in and tries to make you stop, give up, quit torturing yourself like this…a much LOUDER voice of your fellow athletes or coaches drowns it out with a "LET'S GO TRISH, YOU GOT THIS!" Watching some serious dance skills always helps too!
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teresa" The Rac:
February 02, 2010 10:02 amI have always been a competitive person in everything and i mean everything. I have to be a better mom, a better wife, a better medic,hell if who could live the longest was a competition i be in that to,and of course a better athlete ,being 2nd best is not in my nature but when life forces you to be its really hard. This is why i luv crossfit i can compete against myself and with people who may be at the same skill level. My motivation now is pushing for those Rxs, it may not seem like a lot to some but it drives me to push hard everytime i walk into our box.
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February 02, 2010 10:29 am
I know it's silly (and a little melodramatic??) but every once in a while in a WOD I feel so pushed to my limits that I just think: It's like being in labor. You can't stop it so what are ya gonna do? Gotta just keep going til you're on the other side of it.
And as for the little photo- you can sign up at http://www.gravatar.com and connect your email address to a pic. Then it shows up on any blog you comment on.
And please quote from my blog any old time! I'm honored!
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mark t "THE OPE:
February 02, 2010 12:36 pmwell my motivation at first was to make it through the wod and home without paasing out or vomiting, then as i progressed i started to be compete against myself and others on the white board and most of the time i beat myself BAD! I still have a tendency to beat myself but i am working on the whole mental thing. The best motivaters in the world are my dysfunctional brothers and sisters, LP,DP COACH KEELY AND OF COURSE MY GIRL SHLEE all up in my grill when they know i have the look of death on my face, and lets not forget that crazy women i am married to T AKA "THE RACK". When i am in the box i have all of them sitting on my shoulders pushing me every second of every wod. So once again to my jersey shoreline dysfunctional family THANK YOU, YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!! PEACE!!!!!!!!
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LP:
February 02, 2010 03:45 pmGreat POSITIVE comments today!! LOVE IT! Brooke, I love the labor thing. Even though I've never gone through it myself, I have imagined this before!!!
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teresa" The Rac:
February 02, 2010 05:43 pm
Lp just watch that clip with the marine WOW! i have something new to go thru my head now!!!!
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Motivation in CrossFit, to me, is a gradual process. At first, your motivation is to just get through the WOD without "looking like a fool" (a self-conscious hurdle that must be cleared early). After that, you begin to survey the Whiteboard looking for times to beat – and to determine what that day's WOD actually requires (a huge advantage to the 6:30p class). Eventually, you start to "compete" against the people in your class – which gives you the ultimate push because they're doing THE SAME thing as you. Bring out your Journal and you're now also competing against the old you everyday. Becoming comfortable in your abilities comes with time and as it comes you learn that you can push a little harder to get that extra rep/lap/etc.
Motivation is all around – its just a matter of finding what pushes you the most.