Hitting your landmarks

JT Scott | 04/25/2017 | 4

It’s a long climb up the mountain. One step in front of the other, we get there. Along the way, we will pass landmarks on the trail. You don’t have to keep your eyes on the top of the mountain – that’s a long way off, and it’s not important until you get closer.

Instead, we do a good job here of focusing on each step. One step at a time, one rep at a time, one workout at a time. One day, week, month, and year add up and suddenly we’re a lot closer to the top of that mountain when we started.

It is all too easy to get dispirited in a long WOD, overwhelmed with the distance and reps, but if you keep focusing on one rep at a time the work will get done. It is all too easy to look at the people at the top of CrossFit and think “I’ll never make it there”, but if you keep focusing on one day at a time you’ll make progress.

New skills are landmarks on our journey. Your first double under, your first handstand, your first pullup, your first bodyweight back squat, your first 2x bodyweight deadlift: these are all little signposts on the journey that tell us we’re making progress without having to look at all the work in front of us… we just have to look at the work in front of us right now.

We’ve got some time today to work on our double-unders in between Jerk sets, and then we’ll put that practice to work. Your coaches know all sorts of drills to help you develop faster, smoother, and more reliable dubs regardless of your skill level, and we’ll be glad to give you something to focus on today.

Maybe you’ll hit the landmark that says “first double-unders” or “first 10-in-a-row dubs” or “first time doing 100 dubs in a WOD”. The only way to find out is to show up and try.

STRENGTH:
Push Jerk x2
– superset with 2 mins Double Under practice

WOD:
EMOM 12
3 Burpees
10 KB Swings (1.5/1)
Max Effort Double Unders

* Score is total double-unders