Now it's time to stop being an athlete and start being a fan! What can we learn from these amazing athletes? Sara Sigmundsdottir describes her journey to the games. How bad do you want it? If you wouldn't give up in competition, why would you give up in training?
She describes combating food poisoning both her rib fracture and knee injury. The cause was over-training and not recovering enough. In CrossFit you are taught to go through the pain, however, you need to differentiate between pain from training that goes quickly and pain that creeps up on you that does not go away. What about YOU? Are you training or are you draining?
Below are 7 questions
you need to ask yourself about over-training:
1.Are you getting odd pains and aches
all over your body?
2.Are you feeling tired or de-motivated?
3.Are you having trouble sleeping?
4.Have you lost your appetite?
5. Have you lost your sex drive?
6.Does your workout feel harder than
normal?
7.When was the last time you got a
personal best?
Now that the Open is over, take some time out to let your body recover. Have a couple of weeks of de-loading and then watch as you feel more motivated and you get a PB for the first time in ages.
A very young Josh Bridges had this workout nailed all that time ago.
Watch as Josh Bridges
sets the worlds best score for Workout 11.6 by making it through the round of
21's, plus one more Thruster, for a total 169 reps.
Mat Fraser in 18.5 got 198 reps.
The standard of this sport just gets higher.
Josh went on to place 2nd overall in the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games Open.
A couplet of ascending 3 Thrusters, then 3 chest-to-bar pull-ups etc for 7 minutes. Remember that position is POWER. Here are some top tips to get you in optimal position: 1. Try to warm up with a Thoracic Rotation in the deep squat position. 2. Warm up your Wrists thoroughly 3. Work on overhead position 4. Wear gloves (don't need the "chalk up" rest) 5. Don't party too hard if you want to repeat this workout
Play around with the width of your hands on both Thrusters and Pull ups. Wider is less distance. Good luck! Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQHhd5lxVEkGidVXXegTisw
In 2017 the fittest
athletes on Earth took on the unknown and unknowable during four of the most
intense days of competition in CrossFit Games history.
“The Redeemed and the
Dominant: Fittest on Earth” captures all the drama as top athletes resembling
chiseled Grecian gods descend on Madison, Wisconsin, to face a series of
trials.
Hercules faced 12; they
take on 13.
Emotions run high as a
throng of Australian athletes rise to the top.
By the end of the
competition, some learn tough lessons—that all that glitters isn’t gold, or
even bronze—and some learn that they’re even stronger than they realized.
The best among them
enter the pantheon of CrossFit giants and earn the right to call themselves the
……
“Fittest on Earth. ”
Release Date: March 23,
2018
Starring:
Brooke Ence,
Camille Leblanc-Bazinet, Dan Bailey, Dave Castro, Katrin Davidsdottir, Mat
Fraser, Noah Ohlsen, Rory Mckernan, Samantha Briggs, Tommy Marquez
Summary:
Elite athletes take on
a series of grueling tests to vie for the title of "Fittest on
Earth." Follow the drama as they endure the unknown and unknowable during
four of the most intense days of competition in CrossFit Games history.
Directors:
Heber Cannon
and Ian Wittenber and Marston Sawyers
