CrossFit Open 2017 Finished – RXed Every Work Out!
This bring a friend day was a chipper WOD, and also a partner WOD. This was an interesting one, because my partner was newer to crossfit and didn’t know (or wasn’t comfortable doing) a lot of the movements.
I’ve debated for awhile on how to post this, because I in no way had any sort of resentment towards him for this! I just wanted him to try his best and do what he could, and I would carry our little team all the way through however else I needed to.
The WOD was:
100 DU or SU (I did singles, lightning!)
50 ball slams
50 push ups
100 DU/SU
50 hose slams
50 wall balls
800m run (we each rowed 400m)
50 wall balls
50 hose slams
100 DU/SU
50 push ups
50 ball slams
100 DU/SU
So. It went like that.. you go, then I go, and we keep switching off til we’re done.
He hadn’t done jump ropes since elementary? So my biggest goal for him that night was getting comfortable with a jump rope. Throughout the workout, for every 50 singles I did, I wanted him to TRY 10 singles. And he did! We were a team. I didn’t care if they were one at a time, he tried, and that’s what counts.
We KILLED those ball slams! We each took turns with those, and he really did well with them once he got the hang of the movement!
Same with push ups and hose slams. Boys are good at these things, so he really got to shine here!
Wall balls were a struggle I think mainly because of the coordination. He got the hang of it and we took turns as much as we needed to. The second set of wall balls I ended up doing I think entirely on my own, just because of how winded he was. He was working out harder than he had in YEARS, and I was so proud of him for showing up and putting in the work!
In the end, I let him finish up with his 10 jump ropes. We finished in 29 minutes, with a 30 min time cap. 🙂
You never get better by standing on the sidelines.
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