I met Fran at the gym today. If you haven't been introduced to Fran, let me do the pleasure of telling you who she is:
"Fran"
21-15-9 of
95 lb Thrusters
Pull-ups
Fran is one of the CrossFit Benchmarks and is a brutal one. I finished the workout in 4:30, however I needed to start doing jumping pull-ups during the round of 15. Fran taught me a couple of lessons today.
1. I really need to work on my pull-ups. I definitely need to improve my kipping pull-up, but I think more importantly, pull-ups at 260 lbs get hard and I don't have the stamina for it. One more piece of motivation to shed some weight.
2. The positive lesson. Lifting is my strength in the WODs and my stamina is getting much better. In this and other WODs that I've done this week, I have been able to handle the lifting elements well. My stamina from previous weeks is much improved. My struggle are the bodyweight exercises like pull-ups, handstand push-ups, dips, etc. The good thing is that all of those will improve with a combination of increased strength and weight loss.
For motivation here's a video of some CrossFitters taking on the WOD. I apologize for the very mild language. It's PG-13, don't worry.
I thought I was going to be funny and post a picture of Fran Drescher in this post, but found that LAX Crossfit had already done it...I guess I'm not original.
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