160810 - CrossFit | Wednesdays with Coach Lauren!
Howdy fit fam! It’s an honor but also quite intimidating to fill the big well-written shoes of our former weekly Wednesday blogger Miss Hannah Pinkerton. She sends her love from her new home in Alabama and assures me that I can pick up where she left off. I’d like to focus on things that ya’ll want to learn about so don’t hesitate to give me some of your thoughtful inspiration and ideas! Here I go!
Journaling – Evidence of Success
Success is defined in the Oxford dictionary as “an accomplishment of an aim or purpose.” I’m going to make the assumption that it is every CCCF athlete’s general aim to “be fit.” That is an absolutely fantastic purpose for getting your butt to the gym but how will you ever know when it is “accomplished”?
I fully believe that journaling is the best way to provide evidence to your fitness success. Journal is the simple art of recording your CrossFit efforts including your strength/skill training, WODs, and mobility work. There are plenty of ways to do this! You can use a simple spiral notebook, order a journal specifically made for CrossFit like “WODbook” by Sports Journals, or download an app like “MyWOD!” Once you have one of these, take two minutes after each workout to record everything you can about the experience. THEN use this information to:
- Assist you in future workouts by giving you a point of reference
- Track and show your progress with benchmark WODs and weights
- Learn from the patterns that arise in performance
- Easily identify Personal Records (PRs) and development of skills
- Help to set and celebrate those long and short term goals
If you’ve been doing CrossFit for any longer than a month, you can probably tell that you’re getting stronger and faster but wouldn’t it be exciting to see the proof in the numbers! So grab a cute little notebook and start putting numbers on paper, your future self will thank you!
WOD
30-20-10
Toes to bar
Wall balls 20/14
Post workout HSPU work
