Post to Comments
Back in the day, before there was a CF box every half-mile (or less!), CrossFit was just a loose affiliation of a few hundred (and then a few thousand) people working out to the same rep scheme every day: the one posted by Lauren Glassman on crossfit.com the night before.
It was a cool, underground, and distributed movement that held a real sense of community in some ways because of one habit: “Post to Comments”. At the end of each Workout of the Day (or WOD, as we say now) Lauren would put the note “Post Rounds and Reps to Comments” or “Post Load to Comments” or “Post Time to Comments”.
And people from all over the world did! It would start with a daily habit of a perfunctory post:
“Jim (M/34/165/Birmhigham AL) 23:15 Rx”
or
“Martha (F/42/180/Santa Cruz) 18:42 with 55# and ring rows instead of pullups”
…but something special would happen. If you posted often enough, the other regulars would come to recognize your posts and give you encouragement on your progress. You could see yourself getting better, and so could others – and they’d chime in to cheer you on and keep you going. And if you didn’t post in a while, they’d know you hadn’t been getting the work done…
Now we have a home for our community, and we all see each other in at CFSV regularly, but Posting to Comments is still a useful habit. Just like journaling, it’s a great way to keep track of your lifts and workout scores – and they’re saved forever here on this blog. But in addition, it’s out there in public and your fellow athletes will read them and be able to cheer your progress, as well, even if you’re a morning person and they come in the evenings!
If you’re looking for a way to get more out of your training – and to have help making sure you get all your workouts done each week – I suggest you try Posting to Comments every time you come to class. Before long, that simple “Back Squat 135, WOD 18:42 scaled to green band” will turn into “Back Squat 255, WOD 12:24 Rx. Felt good today on the squats, and proud of the RX, but could have been faster on the pullups. Need to do some extra work there once I recover from this.” Soon enough it will be a full blown training log online… and a living record of the work you’ve done and the progress you’re making.
MONDAY 11/7
STRENGTH/TECHNIQUE: Muscle-Ups
WOD:
“Bergeron Beep Test Variant”
EMOM 15
7 Thrusters (75/55)
7 Pull-ups
7 Burpees
* Scale to ring rows if you do not have 7 fast pullups
** Miss a minute? Drop a rep!
*** Do it this way and you will eventually find the right number of reps that lets you complete each round with a few seconds to catch your breath.
YASSS! Also great for when you can’t find your your notebook, or your WOD phone all deletes all your workouts…
This WOD looks fun. Looking forward to tomorrow 🙂
Hah! I post mine to LiveJournal (super old school there)
Long time listener, first time caller…
Got down to 4 round pretty quickly (7,6,5,4), but managed to stay there the rest of the time
35# thrusters+ring rows
7×2, 6×2, 5×4, 4×4, 3×3, 45# thrusters & ring rows
Did this with Naomi just before the noon class, in case y’all were wondering why I looked like I’d just been hit by a truck.
Naomi: 4 @ 35#
JT: 3 @ 75# was the final tally. Pressed real hard to keep the 7s, but once they burned out I was toast – went downhill quickly.
JT – if we start tracking our workouts in the comments of the blog, how do we go back and find our previous comments? Is there a way to track our comments from the login/profile section of the website?
The best way I’ve found (actually Eoin found it) was to do a google search:
site: http://www.crossfitsomerville.com roger
That will give you a list of the comments posted on the blog.
That said, it’d be cool to be able to see it linked to my account somehow
Roger I think I might be able to do that – you would probably have to register for a wordpress account on the CFSV site though. Will look into it.
A few weeks ago I said that UNBROKEN (http://crossfitsomerville.com/2016/10/24/unbroken-3/) was the worst workout ever. Today’s for sure gave it a run for it’s money.
As JT said, once the 7’s went, it was downhill fast.
WOD: 3 @ 55#
7, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3’s to the end
On the plus side, the form on my thrusters got much better.
Yo JT you called it. I wish I had paced myself… 7 7 7 6 6 5 and 3’s till the end at 55#. This was by far the hardest workout I’ve done with CFSV since joining in September! Wasn’t sure if I was going to pass out, throw up, or have all of my limbs fall off.
Almost met pukie.
WOD: 7-6-5-5-dry-heave-3-3-3-3-etc @ 65#
Pull-ups felt great though.