An update: We have had 2 Plumbline members overcome the box now. Cheryl aka Jersey and Maryann aka Maryanna ! These ladies inspire me regularly with their strength and determination!
Here’s the actual pic of Maryann nailing the 30in box – taken by Plumbline Training!
Today I had a mental block doing plyo-box jumps. When I first started doing bootcamp, I couldn’t jump the 24in box, 
then I worked up from stepping to jumping on it with no issue. A few weeks ago, I jumped on the next higher box – i think its the 26in box in group training during the PT station — one max box jump. Definitely easier than I thought. Today, MT told me to try the 30in box. Please Note: I am 63in in height. And this morning, I encountered a mental block. Every time I tried to get psyched up to jump on it, I just couldn’t. Something in my head stopped me: a mental block.
I found someone else’s blog entry about mental blocks with jumping on the boxes:
I was afraid to jump onto the 33inch plyo box, I kept thinking I was going to eat sh*t. BUT I was so damn determined to figure out how to overcome my FEAR. So, I got a 45lb plate and stood on it and UP! jumped onto the stupid box, then down to a thinner plate and again UP onto the box and then an even thinner plate…finally it was seeming more of a mental block I could dismiss…and so, finally I just went for it…stood in front of the box and up and away…UP…BAM! DID IT! pheeew…one more FEAR GONE!
2 responses to “The Box Block”
Those Plyo boxes look intimidating! It took me 2 summers of MT’s bootcamp before I’d jump the wooden boxes, I’m still not as fast as I’d like to be, but at least I do them! My husband Bruce does the Wed AM group training and he said the plyo is tough to move up!
You WILL do the 30-incher next week!
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