WOD:
Deadlift
5-5-5-5-5
Then:
4 Rounds for Time of
50 Double Unders
50 Squats
(12 minute cap)
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Brigid got a little taste of Christmas in July, Kitsap CrossFit style. Welcome to the community, Brigid.
Failure IS an Option
Who watched the CrossFit Games this weekend? I can tell you that the laptop was fired up and running all weekend long at our household. The free live feed from the CrossFit Games at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA was fantastic. I may be a bit biased, but I believe it was one of the most thrilling sporting events I have watched in a very, very long time. There was plenty of sitting on the edge of the seat and hollering going on in our dining room, for sure.
Part of what made it so exciting was to see people that we, in the CrossFit community, recognize as Uber Athletes pushing themselves to the point of pure exhaustion and failure. We watched in awe as guys like Rob Orlando and Jason Khalipa struggled on what is, for them, a fairly light snatch weight and we screamed when Rebecca Voigt came just a couple feet shy of completing the final 20′ rope climb of the competition. These are seasoned and well conditioned athletes who were digging deep to find a level of intensity that most humans would never even contemplate.
Is their failure in these events a bad thing? I would argue that it is not. We tell you all on a daily basis that you need to learn to push yourselves harder than you ever have before. It is when you push yourself to the brink of, or maybe just beyond the point of failure that you find out what you are truly made of. Pushing to failure is okay and it is how we grow as athletes, as parents, and as professionals. It goes without saying that pushing yourself to failure does not mean that we throw all caution to the wind and disregard safety, it simply means we that push ourselves harder than we did yesterday. It means that we dig deep and try to outdo ourselves, knowing full well that if we do not, it is okay. We have lived to fight another day and we are stronger and smarter as a direct result of our failure.
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320#! Though I need to learn double unders real bad.
The games were outstanding! I found myself on the verge of tears when Cheryl Brost was giving it her all to reach the top of the rope and couldn’t. I especially love that, unlike any other sport today, these athletes are not professionals. They are office workers, firefighters, school teachers, moms and dads doing this for the love of the game. None of these competitors know what giving up means, and I couldn’t ask for a better group of role models for my kids:)Hopefully we’ll be able to watch it live next year!
I am not one to watch sports on TV, EVER, but I have been glued to my computer screen all weekend! How exciting and incredible! My kids thought I had lost my mind when I was yelling at the screen.