Box Jumps

“Scooter”

 

400 m  Plate Carry (25#)
20 Burpee Box Jump (16″)
400 m Plate Carry (25#)
20 Burpee Box Jump (16″)
400 m Plate Carry (25#)
20 Burpee Box Jump (16″)
400 m  Plate Carry (25#)

 

Time:  40:09

 

This WOD sucked!  It didn't help when I went to get my weights for my box step ups and someone repeatedly was asking me why I was getting them because they felt like I should already be doing box jumps.  After at least the 3rd time of them telling me this I told them to talk to the head coach (who wasn't there tonight).  I know this person wasn't intending to mean any harm and it's just their own way of trying to encourage someone but it really didn't come across this way.  I've had to sit back and decipher more than a few times what this person really means.  What they don't know is the coach and I have talked about what I'm doing and right now he wants my intensity up so I can be faster.  I shouldn't have to explain that to everyone at the gym especially those I only see once in a while.  It is still hard to hear things like this because I really do want to learn how to do box jumps and do feel like I should already be doing them.  I had to fight the shutdown during the entire WOD.  I never completely succeeded. 

 

Carrying that 25lb. weight was really working my arms.  But I couldn't run with it.  I tried a few times and got a little distance but not far.  I wonder if I would've been better off dropping the weight and focusing just on the running and taking bigger strides.