Types of CrossFitters
If you take yourself a little too seriously you might want to just read the workout of the day and move on. If you can laugh at yourself with the best of em them, then enjoy.
“Nervous Newbie”- The WOD comes out and they think “oh shit, how the hell I am going to do that?” When they walk into the box the previous class is going HAM (Google it if you don’t know), there is chalk everywhere and of course that one guy is yelling like a barbarian fighting to defend his family from dragons. They usually keep to themselves and start sweating before the warm up starts because they can’t believe they are actually signed up for this.
“Here for the exercise”- The majority fall into this category, pay their bills on time, come to class break a sweat and go about their business. They think Paleo is for the birds, eat honey bunches of oats to stay healthy and don’t understand what drinking the Kool-Aid even means.
“No Rep?” The one who does not care if their toes did not touch the bar on an exercise that is called “TOES TO BAR” or their last snatch only came up to their chin before crashing down to the floor. The exerted energy, pinched their face together like they bit into a sour grape and flexed every muscle in their body, so it must of been a rep, right? They hear “lower!” and decide to go higher. They consistently develop their own standards for range of motion and just when you think their push ups could not get any worse, they peal off the floor like a distressed walrus one more time and consider that TWO REPS! (it is a good thing these people do not exist at CFH)
“I LOVE CROSSFIT, (seriously)”- They click refresh before 8 pm because they think it will make the WOD show up early. When it comes out they get that excited feeling in their stomach and say “oh shit” while rubbing their hands together with a big smile on their face. They develop a game plan and dream about kipping like Camille. Post WOD and Pre WOD they are discussing the WOD, a previous WOD or the next WOD. They walk in and drop names like KALIPHA and SPEALLER because when they watched their latest You Tube video they actually felt a human connection! They put peanut butter in their shake because Rich Froning does and can not go 10 minutes without talking about their last PR. (Full disclosure I probably fall very deep into this category, besides the peanut butter in my shake…)
“I Program my OWN WOD’s”- They come in and make up a WOD that they thought of last night while falling asleep, start the Wendler cycle in week 2, then hit some strong man training, with a little rowing, then an endurance WOD and finish with working on a few gymnastics skills.
Pull ups are the one thing I see most people looking to improve on. For the next 4 weeks we will do pull ups OTMEM for a certain amount of time. I will slowly increase the time as you will be encouraged to slowly increase the reps (each week). If you complete 10 easy this week next week go for 12 or a lower band.
WOD
OTMEM for 7 min
10 Chest to Bar Pull ups or Chin over Bar Pull ups
(you can do either one, but try to stick with one all the way through. The goal is to make it challenging for yourself, but not impossible. If you need to scale or increase the number talk to the coach before)
WOD
5 Push Jerks (155#/95)
10 KB Swings (70/53)
15 Sit ups
7 Rounds
Dan and John C on the front rack lunges from last week.