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Coming up to the Invitational, I notice that some people get extremely nervous about what will come up, and whether or not they’ll be good enough.
When I started BJJ I entered a competition after about 4 weeks. There was no expectations on myself to win, but somehow I managed to. Sweet! After that though, the expectation was on me to win everything, and they made competing terrifying experiences. Eventually, when I did lose, it was an awful feeling.
Now, when I compete at Olympic Lifting competitions, I have no expectations on myself to win the thing, as I’m not at the standard to take gold. Occasionally I’ve taken home a medal, but that’s a bonus. The fun of trying and all or nothing lift on the platform is what makes it enjoyable. With this mindset, I’ve even managed to hit PRs in competition.
Competition isn’t an evaluation of yourself as a person, it’s simply one event on one day. Either your skills and abilities are good enough on that day or they’re not. It’s a reflection of your skills, not you, at that point in time.
Interestingly enough, Matthew Syed talks about it in his book “Bounce: How Champions Are Made” that champions have the ability to play when the stakes are high as if the game doesn’t matter. Enjoy the process, don’t worry about the outcome, give it your all, and you’ll get more out of the day and perform better too.
Workouts of the Day:
“Annie”
50-40-30-20-10
Double Unders
Sit Ups
(10 Minute Cap. Compare to June 9th)
then
10-8-6-4-2
Front Squats, 70Kg
Handstand Push Ups
(15 Minute Cap)
Post times to comments.
Big Shout Out to Jackie and Lauren who stopped in for some hungover CrossFitting while on holiday
Snake Oil – Freddy Camancho
Why Women Should Lift Heavy Things – Tony Gentilcore
11 Days Until the September Invitational!
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Meagan McGuinness – Athlete Profile
Oh can’t wait till 7am.. To do all those double unders
ouch
Oh yeah HSPUs.. Artistic dismounts at the ready.
Gah! Wish i could have made it yesterday. Anyone one any thoughts for how to scale HSPUs? I am hilariously bad at putting myself into a handstand. (vertebrae crashing into blockwork bad!!!)
Colum,
Great video on scaling the HSPU the lads posted up a while back.
http://vimeo.com/13364887
Colm/Will… any clips coming for developing DU’s?
Colum I feel your pain (literally), I broke a toe the last time due to my dismounts (artistic dismounts I believe Colm and Jimminy called them!!). It might be handstand holds…
I still feel metabolically deranged..best go eat something before heavy front squats or moderate weight as Colm informs me.
Not looking forward to either of these really.
Hand stand pushups especially.
Boo to them.
Boo to everything.
The only thing I like about that second WOD is “(15 Minute Cap)”, that means I can only spend 15 minutes embarrassing myself with HSPU’s.
I’d no more chicken seasoning for my chicken this mownin, so I pit some olive oil and almond butter mixed together on it and fried it up in the wok. It’s a goer in a salad.
Nice one Aidan must try that one. Im rockin the coconut oil at the mo. Eating it, cooking with it..
Pixie the 15 min cap should be interesting especially if I have to scale with a 1 min handstand hold… Ahhhh there goes my 15 mins already!!
Just to clarify felt like I broke a toe would be more accurate, sorry lads.
Double Under Workout – 10 of the 20 double unders
Front Squat Wrokout – 5.23 secs 40kg / scaled to ring dips red band.
clapping HSPUs for rx+
40 seconds slower on Annie than last time, weak sauce on the sit-ups.
Novice
Mark – 7:43 (45kg, green hspus)
Marget – 8:52 (25-20 etc), 6:16 (14kg)
Eimear – 15/15 DUs, 5:21 (20kg)
Paul – 2/20 situps,
Bob – 15:0 as rx’d, 5:19 (40kg)
Gav F – 10/10 DUs
Stephen D – 23/30 situps (tuck jumps), 5:02 (40kg deadlfts)
Mona – 15/30 SU, 5:25 (12kg)
Frank – 5/20 situps, 7:15 (2x16kg kb)
Lisa B – 27/30 , 8:37 (20kg)
Claire – 20 DUs, 4:22 (15kg)
Intermediate
Alana – 40 situps, 10:28
Jamie – 15/30 situps, 11:52 (45kg)
Lorna – 10/20 DUs, 5:25 (red band dips)
Bren – 9:59 (16kg kb), 7:23 45kg, red band dips)
Scottie – 9:23, 8:03 (60kg, green)
Dave D – 11:35, 12:30 (60kg)
Couners – 13:42 (25-20 etc), 8:17 (30kg)
Meagan – 13:00 (25-20 etc), 9:14 (35kg)
Tracy – 13:28, 7:28 (17.5kg)
Roger – 23/30 situps, 2/4 PJs (60kg)
Simon – 14:05, 2/4 FS (50kg)
Colum – 37/40 situps, 4/4 PJs (60kg)
Kieran – 38/40 DUs, 14:02 (60kg)
Alex – 12:26, 9:14 (30kg)
Advanced
Pat – 9:58, 13:58 (blue)
Lisa – 15/20 Dus, 6:32
Jimminy – 6:30, 12:45 (blue)
Louise – 11:22, 6:04 (green, 45kg)
Tony – 7:10, 7:23 (blue)
Eamonn – 6:10, 3/6 as rx’d
Tom – 7:36
Aido – 8:30, 7:29 (hspus to plates)
Padraic – 6:54, 14:02 (blue)
Garv 35/40 DUs, 6:27 (green)
Pixie – 7:50, 7:48 (green)