Monday, February 15th 2016
COMPETITION: LOVE IT OR HATE IT?
Most people have a visceral reaction to the word “competition” one way or another. Some love to stalk the white board daily. Some love to race the clock and crush previous WOD times. And some even take themselves outside of the box and see how they fare in an actual competition.
Then there’s the people who couldn’t care less who’s top of the white board. Or what the clock says. And they are more than happy coming in, generating a good sweat and going on about their day.
BOTH ARE GREAT. One is not better than the other; as long you are motivated come (because when you come you WILL see results)!
But now there’s the CrossFit Open. Which, technically speaking, is a “competition”. And we’re asking for 100% participation. And if you’re the latter type of athlete above you’re probably saying to yourself “You just said I don’t need to be competitive. Don’t you get I don’t like to compete?!”.
Although some might see the Open as the workouts that qualify people to the CrossFit games, that really is only for the absolute elite athletes. For the normal CrossFitter the games are just a series of really great workouts with the people that you love to workout with. And FYI, the Open WOD will be something we do every Friday as the day’s WOD, so in reality, you are all doing the Open in a way! But why we want you to register is that it’s a time to test yourself to see where your relative fitness is right now. It might be a world wide “competition” but in our mind it is just another way to benchmark your own fitness. One of biggest differentiators of CrossFit is that we track data to show improvement. It’s not data to be competitive, it is data JUST TO SHOW YOU THAT YOU ARE GETTING FITTER!
STRENGTH WOD
Re-Test: 30 Pull ups for Time
We did this on December 1st so we should see some great results from this!
Try to either use the same band (if you used bands last time) or drop to a lower band and come close to your time.
WOD
Our “WODFather” (co-owner, head coach and programmer!) Geo Rockwell looking on proudly at our anniversary bash. We can’t thank him enough for his incredible programming, continuous drive for excellence and for helping make the Cove what it is today.
