“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?
My Journey to the CrossFit Games 
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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.
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Thanks for the follow!
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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
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No, I don’t mind. I’d be honored!! Thank you!
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You’re a good role model:)
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Amazing job!! Feels SO good to beat your previous score and know you did everything you could to get there.
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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.
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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!
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