Last week I posted about things we suck at and it made me think: it's time to reverse that. These months are depressing enough, so I feel like we need a little love in the house.
I don't know about you, but if you've been crossfitting and/or hitting the weights regularly enough you've experienced a plateau. It sucks. It's like a stalled car in the middle of the desert, it's fruitless.
However, one thing that has kept me afloat is the small incremental improvements I've been making. Yeah a 5lb pr on a press doesn't seem like much, but its an improvement. Same goes for the 10 second drop on my 2k row and the fact that I can finally string 30+ double unders together like it's nobody's business. Those are improvements, even if they are small.
Forget about the suck-list, what have you improved on in the last month or so? Dig deep, you may not even realize the gains you've made!
I think I've made a ton of improvements after upgrading from unlimited from 3 days a week. Admittedly, when I was going 3 days a week I was still doing 1 day of strength at the WAC, but the extra metcon makes a big difference in your conditioning. While I was burned out earlier this week, I just needed a couple days off. I feel great this morning.
ReplyDelete-Butterflies - Learned these in the past 30 days. I think I was talking about how I was struggling to learn them last week, then a day later I did 30 unbroken to start a WOD. Sometimes you just need to stop "practicing" and just go for it when it counts. Still not perfect, but already much better than my kip.
-Muscle ups - I can't chain them without letting go yet, but I did 6 pre and 6 post WOD the other day. I had never attempted more than 1 or 2 in a day before.
-OHS - 30 days ago I maxed out at 13 unbroken reps at 95#. Last week I did 21 unbroken. On Monday I did all 5 sets at 95# unbroken (with those awful kbs in between). 4-5 months ago when we did the Airforce WOD, I couldn't do more than 2 at that weight.
-The conditioning is hard to quantify. We all have good WODs and bad WODs, depending on what we're good it. I think my good to bad ratio is a lot higher now than it was 2 months ago.
I feel like I am not improving at anything right now because I can't consistently workout. I am back to avoiding even kipping pullups now because of my back. I am going for a second option next Sat. Hopefully the new doc will be able to help me.
ReplyDeleteImprovements - somestimes it's really difficult to see your gains when the suck list out numbers the improved list.
ReplyDeleteBOX JUMPS (not BJs - ha!) have gotten better. Can do more in a row and have officially moved on to the 20" tire
OHS just do not agree with me but this post made me realize that while I still cannot put weight on my bar for WODS, I can actually reach full/acceptable squat depth
Flexibility (per my post yesterday) is something I have been focused on and have seen much progress in. No splits yet, but pretty close. ha!
Gonna try and make the 5pm!