The one thing I'm just not that good at.

Hey sports fans!

Today I am going to do something I never do, and focus on something I'm actually pretty awful at in the fitness realm. I am very hardheaded, stubborn, perfectionistic, and very much a self slave driver. I know what I want and I want what I want when I want it. End of discussion.

I have always been athletic - and by that I mean I have always had that burning inner push to go harder, faster, stronger. I attribute it to a VERY active childhood and the fact that my free time for 10 years was spend working out 30-40 hours a week under extremely critical supervision. So when I am just ridiculously pathetic at something, it is VERY frustrating. Partially because I can hear my old coaches voices in my head, telling me it's easy, and that all I have to do is commit to it.

That kind of attitude will get you leaps and bounds with strength training and a lot of gymnastics (overcoming fear etc), but I've found it doesn't apply to everything fitness oriented. Unfortunately, that kind of thinking is hardwired in me. Nowadays, when I commit to something, and I'm still not able to do it well, it goes against everything I've ever known about accomplishing goals.

Alright here's the big reveal. Something I suck at immeasurably that most people, even those who don't necessarily workout all the time can do.

Double Unders.

I can whip out pullups, pushups, squats, cleans, sasha swings, burpees. You name it. I can do it. And I can do it quickly. Somehow all of that just doesn't seem that impressive compared to what I saw at a Maximized Living fitness team challenge yesterday. I saw a friend of mine whip out double under and after double under with the same amount of effort it takes the rest of us mere mortals to do singles. I was in awe.

I hate double unders with the passion of six thousand hellfires. The last thing I hated this much were burpees. So I'm doing what I did with those, and making them a part of my workouts everyday. As I remember from gymnastics, the way to go from hating something to being able to do it well and thus loving it, is all about numbers and repetition. I am truly inspired by what I saw yesterday, so I'll be doing 100 double unders for time every day until I can string 30 together and do 100 in under 4 minutes.

This is probably going to take awhile, and involve significant amounts of carnage for my shins. Fortunately I wear bruises and lashes and cuts like badges of courage, so I won't need to shy away from short shorts. Beneficial, considering it's already 90 something here in North Georgia.

My workout today:
100 double unders
200 singles for speed
20 pushups 50 mtn climbers
20 pushups 50 mtn climbers
50 overhead tricep extensions 50 mtn climbers
50 standing rows 50 mtn climbers
10 Sasha cleans each arm 50 mtn climbers
50 stability ball hamstring curls
100 table top hip lifts
8 minute abs
100 flying hamstring curls w/stability ball (see video - and no judgement - I had just finished doing all this stuff like 10 minutes prior and was in the middle of typing an explanation when I thought - "hey I should just do a quick video" - so here it is.)






ROCK!