The mighty Jocelyn is bumped to 2nd place in a stellar performance by Leah. Congrats on a great day of weightlifting Leah.
Pulling 300# on the way to a 620 CF Total.
The Weekly PR board before its Sunday erasing. Great work everyone.
CFWSC trainer Kyle gets an unexpected Valentine's Day present.
Today’s guest writer is the irrepressible Golden.
Mentality
We’ve all had our issues in training, right? Injuries, technique, work capacity, diet, and drive plague us all at times. This post is in regards to one of the many things that drive us crazy: Technique.
I started Crossfit just over a year ago and really loved learning all the basic movements like the clean, deadlift, snatch and even wall ball. Muscle ups took me about 2 months to finally get my first one and I really spent a lot of time working technique and watching tons of videos. Now, let’s just get this out of the way so we are all clear and so that Sam is sure who is writing this–I am an athletic guy, I’ve never been the best at anything but I’m pretty much good at everything I do… I have always been for lack of a better word, Golden.
Then came these stupid things called double unders. I tried them, and tried them, and watched Buddy Lee videos, and tried them. I felt like a spaz, a complete spaz. I’ve never had a harder time with any skill in my life. I just could not do them and I honestly believed that I would NEVER learn them, ever. As in I really believed I could never learn them. Freddy C hates them and he’s a CF superstar, so F ‘em I can deadlift over 500 pounds.
One day, months later if I remember right, I couldn’t do the skill because of my wrist so Joc said, “Do 100 double unders.” It took me over an hour! I got 8 in a row and wrote it on the PR board. But, after 8 months of trying I started to get it. 8 months! After a little more refining I had them. While I can’t do 100 in a row, I can at least do 30-40 in a row and more importantly I don’t FEAR them anymore, which is the coolest part. I might not be the best ever at them but I KNOW I can do them.
The moral? Some of this stuff takes time; some of it takes a lifetime. If you fall into despair regarding a certain movement, technique, trick, weight, distance, or time think about the fact that even I, the strongest, most athletic, best all-around Crossfitter in our box (the author’s opinion) took over an hour to do 100 double unders and now I can do them in sub 2 minutes.
Post Script- Community
I would like to thanks Sharon, Desmond and Sam R for their financial support of me in my bid for Sectionals. It means the world to me that we all go to a “gym” where people care enough about each other to donate money so that I can compete. It is an amazing community we have at CF West Santa Cruz, even if Cliff is part of it.
Post Post Script- Fun
Have fun with your training!!!
Please post any thoughts on Golden’s post to Comments.
And speaking of monster efforts, Jocelyn did Isabel (30 Snatches at 93#) in a smokin’ 1:36. I was stoked to see it, you don’t hear of speed and strength like that everyday. We got video and hopefully it will posted soon.
Workout:
Deadlift
5×3, 5×1 (your choice depending where you are in your training)
Then:
21, 15, 9
Snatch 115/75#
Ring Dips
Double Unders
Post DL weight and WOD time to Comments.
Thats amazing Joc! and congrats to my big sis on her awesome cf total number!
Wow, what an amazing day at CFWSC! Leah and Jocelyn–Congratulations!!
I black heart Kyle too!!!
Congrats Leah and Joc on your amazing performance!!
Thanks for the post Golden. Cannot wait to see you make CFWSC proud at the sectional
Sunday was a great day. Really fun. It was a beautiful day in Santa Cruz. I headed down to the CFWSC box for open gym where I taught ERad the butterfly kip–she picked it up right away. I set a mini PR with 28 pullups with my vest. Then I got to watch Jocelyn just smoke Isabel (with 93#) in 1:36. Leah came in towards the end of open gym with an eye towards knocking Joc out of the number 1 spot on the CF Total. Talk about butterflies, she was nervous. But she PRed on every lift and ended with 620. That girl becomes a better lifter every time she touches a bar. I came home and went for a nice meandering bike ride with ERad and Mowgli, then had a great dinner of steak, broccoli, and brussel sprouts. Gotta love Paleo cooking. And then, just as I was about to get into bed, I saw this link of CFLG ace Billy singing Johnny Cash on the CF Los Gatos site. I watched the video, and that really made my day perfect.
I hope everyone had a good weekend. Now let’s get to those deadlifts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1vOS8D7dt0
CONGRATULATIONS LEAH!! GREAT JOB JOC!! I really liked your post Golden as it describes one of my favorite things about the CFWSC box… and that is chipping away at our weaknesses and becoming better. Maybe someday I will be able to do some double unders. I am very happy to contribute to Golden who I am sure will rock the sectionals!
Great post, Golden! It is very encouraging to hear that even the Great Golden struggles every now and then.
Yesterday was lots of fun and Joc is amazing! I know that my place on the board is purely for fun, and I was super nervous to even try knocking Joc off.
Leah don’t you dare undermine your awesomeness! I mean, come on, those numbers have to be pretty amazing to knock me down. At this rate, you’ll be knocking Golden off the guys side pretty soon:) Nice post Golden. If you make it to regionals I’ll retroactively pitch in $20- but you must guarantee victory:)
Joc- done deal!
It took me something like three years to get double unders. THREE YEARS. I really wanted to give up but people kept trying to show me how to do them so I kept trying. So glad I never gave up. Same with pullups. I just didn’t have strength or technique but I kept trying. I was a grandmother when I did the first pullup of my entire life and I think I’m pretty good at them now. That has got to say something about persevering, right?
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