Muscle Up Success

It’s a still picture but I did do a few muscle ups today. They need some tweaking but they count. Muscle Ups are one of the “things” that CrossFitters’ count as a benchmark for themselves. Someone once told me that a MU is the ‘holy grail’ of CrossFit. Which is funny because I am told that Gymnasts learn a MU as one of their first skills and use it all the time — one man’s treasure is another man’s junk.

I watched this video this morning about Zercher squats- a lift that I had not heard of before – but what really struck me about it is the last 30 seconds:

Pat Sherwood said it straight: “The goal is to just get fit, make it the best hour of your day, stay safe, turn up the music, high five some people and just blow off some steam! Remember that, relax, have fun, workout!” 

So many Crossfitters out there are guilty of this — taking this shit so seriously that they turn it into something that is so far removed from the word FUN.  That’s part of the magic of CrossFit for me –is that each morning that I get my butt out of bed in time for a 6A class, I know I am going to have fun for that hour. It really is on some days, the best part of my day. And look at today: I got a Muscle Up!!

Warmup

• Pull Up Progression
• Whistle Drills
• DROM

Skill

WOD
Annie
50-40-30-20-10

• Double Unders
• Sit ups

time: 7:04 

Since I don’t have solid Double Unders yet, I stuck with single jumps and multiplied it x3. So did 150, 120, 90. 60, 30.