CrossFit, Part Deux

The comp is over, vacation is over, and the benchmarks have been set.  After six months of hard work, it’s time to start over.  It’s time to learn how to do everything over, and learn how to do it right.  Part one was all about learning basic movements, becoming immersed in the culture, making some friends, figuring out how to work with the trainers, and getting strong enough and fit enough.  It was a good part, and it was a good six months.  But now it’s time for part deux.  There’s a difference between a back squat and a good back squat.  There’s a difference between a thruster and a good thruster.  There’s a difference between a pullup and ten unbroken kipping pullups.  There’s a difference between a burpee and twenty unbroken good burpees.  There’s a difference between getting a few dubs and working working working on technique and focus and jumping to get ten or twenty or fifty dubs unbroken.  There’s a difference between working on a pistol and getting a pistol.  There’s a difference between walking 400m (because you’re tired and your hip hurts and you’ve just done goblet squats) and jogging or running 400m.  There’s a difference between working on a muscle up and getting a muscle up.  Recess is over, first grade is done, and it they were good, but they’re done.  It’s time to dig into second grade.  Hang on son, it’s going to hurt a little.  I wonder what tomorrow’s WOD will be…