CrossFit Athletic Group

"Ya know, not having pull-ups sucks... but I think having pull-ups sucks even more!"

Not even two months ago Dillon's max set of pull-ups was 2 or 3, but after her injury she's been working on those (among other things) and now has 12. Unfortunately for her, this opens up a brand new door of conditioning possibilities for her. Dillon subbed 2 minutes of pull-ups for the 2-minute shuttle run on Tuesday's workout and she sure felt the dose.

The longer you do CrossFit, the more you'll realize that nothing really seems to get easier. This is not a "you" problem, understand that! No, that is the price it costs for maintaining your new fitness level.

As a reminder, these workouts are designed to exceed the capacities of the fittest human beings on the planet. There are two key words there: 1) exceed - not meet or challenge, but get to a point where the prescription cannot be completed, and 2) fittest - not my, not Saporito or Aaron or Chase, not Cecilia or Bubs or Madison, or Mrs. Tara or Mr. Ron, but the actual people on TV competing in the CrossFit Games.

In other words Rich Froning would have to modify a workout from time to time.

For the rest of us, that means that our fitness levels actually get challenged more as we get fitter. Got your first rope climb Bethany? Excellent, now wait and see how rope climbs feel when coupled with front squats. Got 20 pull-ups in a row now, Mrs. Hill? Let me interject a Mr. Malak chuckle. Fran is calling your name. Mr. Gjon, I see your running is getting better? I wonder how that next 800m race with Mr. Robinson is going to feel. Charles is getting his squat form consistent right? Have fun with a 10-rep max back squat at an actual 10-rep max weight.

I have said this before and it is worth repeating: I simply don't understand how one can do CrossFit and be cocky about it. CrossFit remains to be the single most humbling thing I have ever come across in my life. So congratulations on your new progress fellas, it only gets worse from here!