CrossFit Athletic Group

After the Banet victory at the Disney Doozy last weekend, we started to see the Elizabeth that we remember from last summer. Her attendance so far has been less than expected for our previous Athlete of the Summer titleholder, but things turned around this week.

The results speak for themselves. On Monday, Elizabeth was one of the few lucky kids with pull-ups good enough to do "Angie" as prescribed for the first time. Her final time: 24:03. 100 pull-ups in 13 minutes. Then on Thursday's running workout, she finished in the top ten with a final time of 20:30. Those are really good times, although not outstanding or enough to stand out alone. But an athlete as well-rounded as Elizabeth who consistently appears on the leaderboards, even if it's not always at the top, is exactly what we're striving for at the Champions Club.

Don't get me wrong, Elizabeth does have her standout moments. Those moments are usually highly correlated with the days handstand push-ups show up in workouts. Friday happened to be one of those days. We modified the workout from the original on the CrossFit.com site, which was like "Angie" on steroids:

For time:
100 chest-to-bar pull-ups
100 handstand push-ups
100 GHD sit-ups
100 one-legged squats, alternating

Instead of doing our modified workout, Elizabeth came in and said "I feel like doing 100 handstand push-ups today." While we're busy questioning her sanity, she's knocking out 30 in a row. 100 handstand push-ups in seven minutes. Not only that, but she also did 80 GHD situps and 60 full pistols in the same time it took gumps like me to do half of that. 

If only Chris got it on video for us all to witness this superhuman feat.

so much beast mode trapped in such a small person...