Practice Makes Perfect

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Jason

On Monday I posted on the board the “Suck List”.  Everyone was to write down an exercise or two that they need work at or in other words, Suck at.  Everyone has been very diligent in practicing thus far.  Today Cheryl came in and she picked pullups and double unders.  After just a few minutes of practice she had done her first pullup and double under!  Now this isn’t the norm, but just goes to show by focusing a few minutes daily on something you are not great at, you can improve and something else can take its place on the list.

Firefighter Fred came up with a killer workout for his birthday today, so killer that he and two others were the only ones to even attempt it.
“FireFighter Fred“
3 rounds of:
13 Front Squats (bodyweight)
13 Pullups (1.25 BW)
13 Deadlifts (1.5 BW)
Lenora, Fred, and Chris had to dig deep to complete this one.  I was very impressed with Lenora during this WOD, although we scaled the weights quite a bit, she used perfect form, and I have never seen her move so fast, that very well may have been her first sub 12 minute Met-Con.  Mazel Tov Lenora!

The rest of the evening folks hit “Helen”.  For some it was there first time, and for others a time to hit some new PRs.  Some very big PRs were hit tonight – Niki hit 12:20, Chad hit 10:56 a PR by almost 5 minutes, John Marro also took nearly 5 minutes of his time.  Others didn’t go down in time but used more weight or a lighter band, or even no band at all.  Both Jess L., and Angie did their first “Helen” with full pullups, and Jess actually decreased her time!

The 5:30pm finished early and their reward was 5k Relay Race.  We set up 3 teams of 3 rowers they were team 1: Marie, Andy, Elana, team 2: Diana, John M., Viv, team 3: Josh, Ernie, Jess C.  All 3 teams also received a Lasky bonus, meaning they could all have Jess Lasky hit one row for their team during the race.  Team 3 took the top spot with a 5k time of 21:17, what a great time!  It gets nuts during events like this, the air gets thick, the room gets hot, and the energy is through the roof, so much fun!

5k Relay Race