It’s crazy what a difference 1 year can make. When is the last time you stopped and thought about where you are compared to last year? Is that the sort of thing you do on New Years Eve? I was thinking about today’s workout and what progress I have made. We did some work on Hand Stand Push ups. Last year this time, I couldn’t do a handstand — no idea how, never worked on it, every time it was included in a part of my old trainer’s workout — he didn’t give us any instruction on how to actually ‘learn’ it.  When I switched to CrossFit full time — they worked on it with me and then one of my pals, Coach Marc just told me — commit to doing it. That was the key — and I worked on it over and over again. Any time I had extra time after a workout, I did handstands. I am almost at the point of full balancing off the wall — but I can certainly do a handstand – look at me now.

This pic is Coach Conan showing us a modification of a Hand Stand Push Up — that thing looks dangerous but can help you work on the actual push up part of the exercise. I gave it a try — and it certainly takes some getting used to.

Warmup
800m run
–x2
10 Pass Thrus
10 OHS
10 Hand Release Push Ups
10 Super Man/Hollow Rocks

Skill
HSPU

WOD
15 AMRAP
15 Box Jumps
10 Sit ups
5 HSPU
rounds: 9+1

Box jumps get me – plain and simple. Takes the wind out of my sails, causes me to hack up a lung but I stick with it — there is no quitting! Only carrying on, making it work — getting it done!