Our box is developing a drinking problem!

What I am about to address is a pattern I have seen developing within our box over the last couple of months. 

It’s the pattern of “Routine Rest.” We have all at some point fallen victim to RR during WOD’s. You begin your workout…the pressure is on…a fellow athlete is counting your reps…you fatigue…they’re yelling for you to work harder, stay with it….what do you do? BREAK it’s rest time!!! You’re reaching for your water bottle, you’ve collapsed to the ground, hands are over your head, you’re looking around at people working out, then after 3 coaches have realized you’ve stopped working and are in your face you get back to work. Then not a minute or two later you’re back in same spot, chuggin the same bottle of water, doing your same ol’ rest dance. This RR goes on throughout your workout till you yell “TIME.” What’s goin on people!!!

We’re not here to REST! We’re here to WORK! If you need a reminder of what we are all about please click here  http://www.crossfitwestsac.com/we-are-crossfit-west-sacramento/  if you need to take a few seconds to catch your breath that is fine. We aren’t saying work all the way through your WOD without stopping. When we say a few seconds we mean between 3-7. Personal accountability ya’ll! Count it down, use your fingers, have your seconds be your big deep breaths.  This also goes for those of you in Fundamentals. Just because you’re in Fundamentals doesn’t mean you are given a “get out of intensity free” card. Errr!

With that said I stumbled across this great blurb about hydrating during the WOD. It’s from CrossFit Watertown. Maybe after you read it you’ll put down the bottle!

This is how I want you. On the floor, mobilizing after a workout, and about to rehydrate.

After the workout.

Because, quite honestly, drinking water during a WOD that lasts less than 20 minutes is just another way of announcing to the world that you are a p****. You really might as well stand up and shout those words. It’s not the water your body needs during those 20 minutes — your biological systems will survive if you don’t hydrate during those 20 minutes — but it’s a break that you THINK you need. It’s your mind calling the shots, not your body. It is your mental discipline that is failing, not your physical capacity.

20 min or less: that’s all I’m asking. All-out, balls-to-the-wall effort for a maximum of 20 min of your day. No stopping, no drinking, no quitting. You can cry if you want to and you can puke if you have to. But for the love of all that is Chuck Norris, don’t freakin’ drink water during those 20 minutes.

Are you feelin’ me here?

So, the next time that you’re in the middle of a metcon that lasts less than 20 min and you decide you must take a sip of water, I have something I want you to do. Shout these words loud and clear so that everybody in the room can hear you: “I AM TAKING A BREAK.” I want ‘em loud, really loud. Loud enough that the folks walking by on Main Street can hear you. Loud enough that your own pride winces and you want to kick yourself in the a**. Then you can sip your water before you get back to the WOD.

Or you can just keep working hard, not embarrass yourself, and drink water afterward. Your choice. Pride or p****. You decide.

~Beez

4 Comments

1. 

   How appropriate is it that CF Watertown is b*tching about people drinking too much WATER during the wods? Kinda ironic, no?

   Posted by rick on 24 May 10 at 3:06pm
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   So your sayin’ if it aint water we drink then its ok? That brings up a whole different drinking problem.

   Posted by Special K on 24 May 10 at 7:54pm
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   A little over the top….must be the paleo diet talking.

   Posted by ebam on 26 May 10 at 4:54pm
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