Tomorrow is Memorial Day, and we will be doing our 1st Hero WOD. I really want everyone to understand and take to heart the meaning of why we have Hero WODS. Here is the absolute greatest explanation I have read explaining Hero WODS. This quote is from CrossFit Syndicates Website: Sometimes we get caught up in life, the same as we get caught up in the gym. Whether that is worrying about the number on the board, the time on the clock, what everyone else is getting on WODs, or just plain fear for a workout. That is ok, it happens to everyone once in awhile and it takes a moment to sit back and put everything into perspective. Sure we all have goals and I want you to continue to strive for those goals everyday, but on a day like today where we have a CrossFit Hero WOD, I want you to try and sit back and look at the bigger picture for a minute. It is ok to be afraid of a workout or a movement, but the idea of a CrossFit Hero WOD is showing courage, going against that fear and putting yourself outside your comfort zone. A CrossFit Hero WOD is designed to honor a fallen Hero, to give yourself a reality check and to put you into a level of suck that brings this whole thing back into perspective. A CrossFit Hero WOD is not meant to be an everyday training regimen, nor should it be. These workouts are nasty, and for good reason, they take you to a place that you may never have been before. A level of suck that is indescribable to most that have never been there, and when its over you should feel accomplished not because of the time on the board, but the fact that you finished, the fact that you put it all out there to honor a fallen Hero. So today, as we hit this workout, I want us to all sit back and look at the big picture. Take a second to think about why we are doing this, then give this workout everything you have. It will be tough, it will be grueling, but in the end I promise you will be proud of what just went down. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgement that something else is more important than fear” The Hero WOD we will be doing tomorrow is Jack: Complete as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of: 115 pound Push press, 10 reps 10 KB Swings, 1.5 pood 10 Box jumps, 24 inch box Army Staff Sgt. Jack M. Martin III, 26, of Bethany, Oklahoma, assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, Fort Lewis, Wash., died September 29th, 2009, in Jolo Island, Philippines, from the detonation of an improvised explosive device. Martin is survived by his wife Ashley Martin, his parents Jack and Cheryl Martin, and siblings Abe, Mandi, Amber and Abi.-from CrossFit
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 03:05:14 +0000
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