all things mau

Tonight’s workout is one of the lovely “girls” of crossfit. “Karen”.  She consists of 150 twenty pound wall balls as fast as you can. Karen is a very unassuming lady.  What could possible be difficult about tossing up a ball a few times.  Don’t be fooled.  Karen is a bitch.  She toys with your confidence in the first 30-40 tosses.  Then she slowly breaks your will and heart.

Wall ball is one of my major mental blockers.  It has the ability to coax out the retreat part of my brain right around 100 reps.  I mean what’s another 5 seconds of rest going to hurt in your overall time, right?  Power through it.  The biggest reward out of crossfit workouts isn’t the physical accomplishment.  It’s the mental.  If you can beat Karen’s mind games, she’ll bestow upon you some valuable skills you can use outside the gym.

“Karen”

For time:
150 Wallball shots, 20 pound ball

modified to 15 pound ball, the heaviest the gym provides, therefore increased to 170 wallballs

time: 10:20… not happy with this one bit.

Oh yeah, also, I threw out my back AFTER the crossfit workout while working on clean technique with a light load.  FML.

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