Lions, Tigers, and BEARS!!!! OH MY!

 

"Pressing Snatch Balance"

 

(does my elbow look weird to you?)

Hey so hope everyone had a great 4th of July!!! This WOD will help you shake off any lazy slug tendencies that you may have developed over this long weekend away from the gym.  (for those of you that are planning on going to the gym today......I recommend that you not eat right before your workout...just a suggestion)

It's weird how fast the lazy part of your brain kicks in after a few days away from the gym.  I almost had to literally drag myself out of bed, accompanied by not a mental slap  but a literal slap to myself to get me prepared to torture my limbs....(I said "almost" so I didn't actually slap myself.)  But that doesn't mean my feelings toward getting up to do a wod were good.  I absolutely didn't want anything to do with working out today.  Then Kaika told me what the workout was, and that really didn't help me decided to go even more.  

WOD: 5 rounds.....
 -Bear crawls  100 ft.
-standing broad jumps 100 ft. (not hard enough you say.....well then lets tack on some burpees with that)
***Do 3 burpees after every 5 broad jumps***
                       
                            Bears have never been my favorite animal.....and now I know why.

Since I know Kehau made this WOD, and I know how ridiculously in shape she is.....(as Rod can tell you all about her super human abilities)......I also know that she is doing this for our benefit.  It is ment solely so that we can all grow up and be just as strong as her. (lol, kidding kehau I love you)  But, BY ALL THAT IS HOLY......that was the worst WOD I've ever done!

Have any of you non-crossfiters ever tried to walk on all 4's like a bear for an extended period of time? Well if you haven't.....it's pure fricken hell! Your arms are burning, your legs are burning, your meal is one wrong bounce away from saying "hello!" to the gym floor.  I felt terrible.... and that was just after my first round of bear crawls....I didn't even get to my broad jumps/burpees yet!

The thing that I was most afraid of was jumping to short and having to do more burpees than most ever need to do.  So I put as much power into those jumps as possible.  The only problem with that is that your body is using more energy for those jumps and as an obvious side effect the fatigue comes on faster as well.  The 'seeing stars syndrome' is how I know my body is just about to revolt against me.    *I have to keep reminding myself....air to the brain might be more helpful to me than having no air to the brain....so BREATH DAMIT!* (easier said than done... believe me...I know.)

***on a side note:  I think I even remember Kehau saying something sarcastic about 'my Bear crawl being so fierce and fast.' when in actuality my bear crawl probably looked like the bear was on some kind of sedative, got shot in the leg and was now slowly bleeding out into a slow painful death. (believe me, it did not look pretty)

Taking everything into consideration.......I still think I hate this workout.  I don't really think it was that 'fun' either.  But the filipino in pink never backs down from a challenge.  So it is done and I am glad to be done with it. 

Who likes bears anyway?  Don't let 'Teddy Bears' fool you.  They really stink, they're ugly, and they probably can't even see the color pink....they can't be trusted.

Peace!