“You gonna re-do it?”
“Nah, I’m good. I’m happy with my score. If I re-did it, I’d only improve by a few reps.”
This was the reply I heard most frequently when around the internet community if they were going to re-do CrossFit Open Workout 18.1.
Ben Bergeron’s advice: You’ve spent one whole year training for the Open. Why wouldn’t you re-do it?
So I followed Bergeron.
And I’m SO glad I did.
I re-did 18.1. I gained 30 more reps! Almost 2 whole rounds above my old score.
I was hoping for 3. I got 30.
So what changed?
Two things:
- I figured out the hang cleans and had all clean reps.
- I pushed harder. I knew in my head I didn’t want to re-do this workout without improving my score so I kept thinking the entire time, “You gotta go, Jen. You gotta do better.” And I did.
Furthermore, I knew because of the dumbbells and the no reps in the first 2 rounds I could do better. I knew it. And I did.
I’m proud.
I love Bergeron now more than ever.
He was right. I’ve spent so much time, effort, and energy over the past year training for this. I HAVE to try it twice. Every time. NO matter what.
I owe it to myself to do so.
Don’t you?
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Never really thought about it that way before and it makes more sense to do it twice rather than once. Thank you for this, I didn’t manage to do 18.1 on Friday because of a cold so I’m doing my first attempt tonight, but for the other workouts, I’m going to do them twice.
Thanks for the follow!
Oh that is awesome!!! Do you mind if I use you as an example with my students. They’re young so we spend a lot of time talking about persevering until you get the result you’re capable of! I’m glad you’re proud and hat you redid it
No, I don’t mind. I’d be honored!! Thank you!
You’re a good role model:)
Amazing job!! Feels SO good to beat your previous score and know you did everything you could to get there.
Take home= Having an amazing mentality and learning from your prior attempt works wonders! Awesome post. What got you into crossfit to begin with? I love cross-training and have written articles over it at http://www.selfimprovedfitness.com , but crossfit in itself I have no experience in.
A personal trainer suggested CrossFit to me when he couldn’t do anything more for me. I’ve been hooked ever since! Thanks for stopping by!