{"id":1423,"date":"2011-04-21T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2011-04-21T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T19:02:07","slug":"snatches-and-hspu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Snatches and HSPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s Thursday and I have only gotten one workout in this week so far. I was busy Monday, I got one in on Tuesday, and yesterday (Wednesday), I felt like I was going to fall asleep around 4:30pm. <\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Tuesday, 4\/19\/2011<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7x<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 snatches @ 95# <\/li>\n<li>6 hand stand push ups <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Time: 23:08. This didn&#8217;t look so awful written on the board, but man, 7 rounds of this was nasty. 5 was a struggle. I have no idea how I gutted out 2 more rounds.&#160; I quit several times during the WOD only to get right back to it to keep plugging along. I know that we always say that CrossFit makes you a better person. This is exactly why. It&#8217;s an allegory for life. When things get hard, do you quit? Even if you do &#8220;quit&#8221;, do you come back to it anyway? This is why I want my kids to do this. It will make them mentally strong. <\/p>\n<p>I went the whole time without scaling, which I am proud of. I will say though, that if this were competition, none of my HSPU would have counted. I still need depth and ROM there. <\/p>\n<p>If this were competition&#8230; those word make me think of something I saw recently. Web Smith (of SICFIT fame) recently posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.functhat.com\/2011\/04\/killing-the-sport-of-fitness-and-a-shout-out-to-the-anywherefit-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">link to an article where a CrossFitter was quoting Blair Morrison<\/a>. You can read the article for yourself, but boiled down, here are the main take home points:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>This dude is already burnt out on the CrossFit Open. <\/li>\n<li>It seems like some competitors are too. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the quote from Blair Morrison, he says &#8220;Well&#8230; I am officially &#8220;Opened&#8221; out.&#8221;. He goes on to talk about why, but I have to say, somewhat reluctantly, that I agree with him. <\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t want to come off like I am complaining here. There is a really bright side to all of this in that I have been forced to work on some skills over the past weeks that I would likely otherwise brush off or leave for &#8220;another time&#8221; like heavy cleans, 24&#8243; box jumps, etc. <\/p>\n<p>It seemed like a great idea and something that would be lots of fun at first, but for me, it has been anything but. It&#8217;s been a pain in the ass to find times to get to the gym to do these workouts since they are not part of the regularly scheduled programming. It&#8217;s been stressful to think about how I am going to get my normal programming FOR HEALTH in so that I am not sore for and able to even attempt these WODs. I sort of miss the days when I could go to the gym, feel competitive if I wanted to, and really just have fun. <\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, the term &#8220;Leader boarding&#8221; came out&#8230; where you check the leaderboard constantly to see where people are ranked. I can&#8217;t say that I suffer from this. In fact, I barely remember to submit my scores. If I am over this whole thing already, I can&#8217;t imagine what someone who has to check the scores every 5 minutes must feel like. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost over and then we can go back to our regularly scheduled programming. The worst part of all of this is that I actually feel bad for wishing that this were over with already so I could go back to &#8220;just working out&#8221; and having fun. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, I realize that the second half of this post completely contradicts the first part. Mostly, I am feeling just burnt out on it and ranting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s Thursday and I have only gotten one workout in this week so far. I was busy Monday, I got one in on Tuesday, and yesterday (Wednesday), I felt like I was going to fall asleep around 4:30pm. Tuesday, 4\/19\/2011 7x 12 snatches @ 95# 6 hand stand push ups Time: 23:08. 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