Fitness Friday #22

**It’s Friday night and this post was written so I’m publishing it but today there is no link up. Next week I will explain the course that my day took in more detail. For now, I ask you all to have a safe weekend.**

I must admit something. Not like yesterday’s confession, but rather something I was feeling the other day. We were at our event at CrossFit Magic Valley in Idaho and the community was awesome but inside I wasn’t feeling so great.

It was one of those moments where I was extremely frustrated with my fitness. It’s hard to look at the goals I’ve placed in front of myself and not feel like I’m going backwards when the weight I can do in a WOD isn’t improving or skills I’d worked hard to get, I no longer can. So as I stared at the wall wishing ever so much to do that handstand and it just wasn’t coming, I wanted to cry. I could feel the tears welling in my eyes.

But what’s interesting is that while I may have lost some skill (which I know I’ll get back!), I’ve also gained others. While one week the handstand is hard, in that same week I’m completing double unders with greater ease and even stringing 5-6 of them together without breaking them up with singles.

Patience, Katie, patience.

Friday 5/22

Rest

Saturday 5/23

10 min amrap:

150m Run

15 db swings

150m Run

15 air squats

Score: 2 + 11 air squats

1.28 mile walk

Sunday 5/24

3 reps x 7 sets

Monday 5/25

Modified Murph

Tuesday 5/26

Event @ CrossFit Octave

30 seconds work

30 seconds rest

9 rounds:

OH Walking Lunges (25#)

Burpees onto Plate

Double Unders

Wednesday 5/27

2 mile run

Event @ CrossFit Magic Valley

5 rounds: 3 progression squat clean + 1 push jerk (85#)

then 7 rounds for time:

7 handstand push-ups (pike-box)

7 burpees

time: 8:42

Thursday 5/28

Event @ Power Seeker CrossFit

Squat cleans – 3-3-3-3 (75#)

3 Person Team Partner WOD

How was your fitness last week?

What highs should we celebrate for you?

Where do you need more patience with your fitness level?