New Day... New Coach

Tonight was a better WOD.  I went in not being thrilled with the WOD but determined to kick that frustration right out the door. 

Warm-up-
2 rounds as partners while one partner does wall sit

bear crawl across room
crab walk back
long jump across room and back

 

Strength
5×3 Clean and Jerk

Then…

5 rounds for time of:

4 HSPU
8 C2B Pull-ups
12 weighted overhead walking lunges (45/25)

 

Warm up wasn't my favorite.  The new coach was a bit overwhelmed on her first night.  But I kept my frustration level down to a minimum when my warm up almost got cut a round.  Seems the coach lost count of the rounds and was ready to move on to the actual WOD.  We spoke up and once she figured out what we were saying I finished the round.  This is why I hate warm ups like this because I am slower than everyone else and before I get done everyone is ready to move on.  But I did better than the last time I was in this position and at least I didn't walk out.

 

So I took some initiative tonight with the clean and jerk weights.  I had 65lbs on my bar and the first round seemed easy so by the 2nd round I was thinking about adding weight to the bar.  The coach told me I was doing the lift correctly.  To be honest I didn't think I was.  So one of the guys I'm friends with called me out on shoulder pressing the weight.  Not sure why the coach didn't notice because it is something I'm guilty of always doing.  So I added 10lbs.  That ended up being too heavy as I couldn't get the bar above my head very well.  I did notice the more I used my legs and hips the easier the bar went up.  But by then it was time to end that part of the warm up. 

 

I did regular push ups and jumping pull ups. 

 

Now the weighted overhead walking lunges were hard.  I still can't get my knee to the ground.  But I did put forth a lot of effort and tried. 

 

Now, the more I think about what I wrote last night I am still considering taking that posting down  Not sure I want to relive it just in reading it but really not happy with how I was thinking and the things I said.  I really do like all my coaches and they do know best.  I know they get as frustrated with me as I do them.  I imagine they would like to drop kick me across the gym several times if they could get away with it.  I just get so frustrated when I can't do something.  I want to be able to do all of this correctly and I want it yesterday if not a week ago.  It's not the coaches fault I can't do everything I want to do.  It's not even my fault.  It's going to take time.  Somehow I have to keep this frustration under control.  My apologies to my coaches if y'all read yesterday's post.  I do love y'all!!!