Before I injured my back, I put most of my energy into improving my lifts. “I’ve been forced to focus on gymnastics and body weight movements since returning to CrossFit in 2016. My advice to anyone who is looking to advance is to do progressions correctly knowing one day you will be able to get to the place you want to be! I continue to work on myself and you can too!”
Now, nothing makes me more excited than seeing certain exercises in the workout that I can excel on. I’m super competitive-mainly with myself so I channel that energy. They helped me concentrate on the end goal.
From sitting on the ground, using the bar for pull-ups to doing single unders. I proactively focused and challenged myself with the progressions. Some of the exercises were new so I needed to gain strength and muscle memory. I knew that if I wanted to be able to successfully complete some of the movements, I would have to work my way up to them. “I have took progressions pretty seriously in the almost 8 months I’ve been a member at CFH.
Listening to the coaches and believing that you can do what they’re telling you to do is the key! A lot of it comes down to trust, especially with oneself, and allowing yourself to just go for it.” Once that was drilled into my kipping routine, the movements got even easier. One of the tips from the coaches was to keep the toes together. It’s a great feeling when you can hit multiple birds with one stone like that. From there, I had built up the strength to comfortably get my body to hit those positions in the kip.īutterfly pull-ups, toes-to-bar, and even muscle-ups were soon within my physical abilities. The ability to control myself on the bar came from working on the hollow hold, superman, and plank positions on the floor. The kip is a perfect example of that.Īmong a lot of movements before coming to CFH, the kipping pull-up was something I had never done before. Oftentimes, a progression we work on for a specific movement will translate to another one. That’s a given for some, but for me, it’s hard to sometimes maintain a constant focus. “Working on progressions has taught me a lot about how patience and consistency always gets you the results you’re looking for. They took progressions seriously and they worked. They took the time to do extra work, they practiced patience, and they have seen results greater than expected. I reached out to a few members who have followed the advice of coaches. The people who take them seriously see results, often faster than they expected. You will be celebrating your 5 th year of CrossFit still doing one pull up at a time. We are giving you this advice because it is our job to know that what you are doing is not going to help you nail that movement. So when one of us tells you to get off a band or stop doing one pull up at a time, and take a seat and do some barbell seated pull-ups instead, it comes from a good place. The coaches are here to help you, not to hold you back. I was going to write a long blog article on why progressions the coaches give you are so important to follow, which they are.