suck day

This photo makes me laugh. It's from Saturday's throwdown. John W. and I found some spare time to simply be silly. Seriously. Sometimes all you need is a sense of humor to get you through some of life's bullshit. So here we are doing um, I don't know what. Some version of a sick and twisted WOD? Sure. Er. Um. Not quite. I do know that every now and again John W. likes to do this to me. And I let him. Because who can say no to John W.? ha ha? (This is all tongue-in-cheek, you know? If you are part of the legions of women who go ga-ga over John W., please don't hate.) Oh well, it was fun. I'm sure there are dozens of women who would have killed to be me in this photo. ha ha!

Warm-up
THREE rounds of:
Run 200 meters
10 modified ring dips
10 back extensions

Handstand work
Prep for the WOD (Where I wanted to cry and tear my hair out. Seriously.)

CrossFit One World WOD
Complete as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of:
7 L pull-ups (modified with 7 jumping pull-ups and 7 knees-to-elbows)
7 box jumps 18"
7 wall balls 14#

Joanne's Final Count - 7 rounds with 7 L pull-ups

And then...
Squat challenge:
20 75# back squats

Notes (to myself) about this workout: Truth be told, I was having an off day. A really off day. In fact, I've been feeling a bit useless these days and its manifesting itself at the gym. Now I understand the idea of "train at what you suck at the most." I feel that. But today hit every suck nerve in my body.

My ring dips suck. When I do them, my feet are so close to my body that they nearly touch my ass. That's how weak I am.

Headstands? Er. Um. Did you all not get the bulletin that I kicked Jason K. in the face because I suck at headstands so much?

Then came the box jumps. I decided a few days ago that I would do the red box. During the warm up, I just couldn't get my head into it. I was literally kneeling to the box praying I could jump it.

What about those damn knees-to-elbows? As it stands, this exercise is completely useless to me because it tears my hands apart and just irritates me. It does nothing for my core and is a complete waste of time. There needs to be a more efficient way of conquering these motherf--kers!

I don't mind practicing what I suck at. I just don't like having to deal with them all at once. I suck at a lot of things. I get it. I just don't need it all thrown in my face, really. I'm weak at a lot of the body weight stuff because it reminds me of how heavy I am. Not many people like to be reminded of this and I am definitely not one of those people.

I've also been feeling ugly-and-gross lately. I hate that I'm the only woman in the gym with an abundant supply of sweat glands. I hate that two minutes into the warm-up my first shirt (yes, I double up) is soaking wet and by the end of the warm-up, it looks like I decided to take a dip in the local sweat pool. I hate it. It makes me feel dirty. and fat. and ugly. These aren't feelings I want to have at the gym. When you couple that with me not doing well at the exercises, it just leads me to tears. Bleh. (Okay. I stop with the pity party.)

Thank God we ended with the back squat. Yea. Something I can actually do.