You might not know this but as coaches we aren’t only here to teach you how to deadlift or do pull ups. We soak up as much information about you as we can to help you be fitter and healthier but also better people and this is about your integrity. As you count reps, we count reps and at times it hasn’t been adding up. This is not to call you out as a cheater because there is always two sides to a story and in most cases we only know our side so here goes.
#1 If you are here purely to be first in the wod every day you need to have a look at yourself and find something more important to train for than having the fastest time everyday. You won’t win every day and if you didn’t do all the reps is it really a win? No one should be so competitive they compromise their own longterm results and sanity by creating shortcuts because there are no shortcuts. All you do is creating a skewed picture of your own fitness and you will never know true improvements or be able to celebrate true PR’s, because they simply are not.
#2 If you don’t want to look really unfit compared to the people you work out with it’s easy to cut a few reps to at least look like you are keeping up. Who cares if you are keeping up or not? You are not here to showcase your fitness you are here to improve it. Just work hard in every session and be last if thats the way it goes. You will find the last person often gets the biggest cheers and you will feel a much bigger sense of accomplishment if you do the whole workout.
Remember for one hour a day at SPC, you are meant to just be yourself get a workout in and forget about the stressors of life. If you put pressure on yourself here by trying to win at all cost what are you really accomplishing other than adding stress to your life. Remember why you signed up in the first place and get back to just getting the workout done and create a better feeling for the rest of your day.
Christian
Thursday 29/11/18
Running Conditioning:
E3M for 18min
400m Run
Accessory Work: 5 Rounds of
8 Bench Press (AHAFA)
10 Strict Pull Ups
50 Double Unders
