5 rounds for time:
25 wallball
35 double-unders

Workout Mind Games

Our physical and mental place, environment, and state of mind have a tremendous affect on our workouts. This weekend I had what I considered a shitty ass workout (that’s a technical term). My mental state going in was not that great and it deteriorated throughout the workout ending in a giant pile of suck.  Here’s what I remember from my train of thought in the 20 minutes that is Cindy.  Anyone else ever melted down into a suckfest?  Post to comments.

Ok, here you go, three fun people to workout with, a great environment, great training over the past month, a classic CF benchmark that you haven’t done in a year. Awesome. Well, sort of, I’m kind of unmotivated to do this…

3-2-1 Go!

• Stay smooth on the first round, don’t go crazy, build in to it, it’s 20 minutes
• Wow, butterfly pull-ups are fast, way faster than kipping
• Can I do butterfly for all 20 minutes?  Maybe I should do every other round butterfly.  Why?
• 13th air squat of first round, shit everyone is already on the pull-up bar
• Go faster or sit in and steady it up?  What to do?  Is that third gear in me today?
• Just get in a workout, you’ve got a busy afternoon at your job, don’t go crazy.
• End of 3rd round, shit why do my push-ups feel this crappy?
• Probably because you did 50 push-ups and 100 pull-ups on Thursday.  That was stupid but I didn’t know I was going to do Cindy.  Stop making excuses, suck it up
• Lance just reminded Joe to go a little deeper on his squats, are my squats deep enough?
• It’s hot, but my hair did curl really nicely this morning, humidity rocks!
• I should have shaved my hands, I’m going to rip
• Don’t forget to do your squats like that one time you were doing Cindy and you forgot your squats on that one round.  I wonder how many people have ever forgot a rep or set in a CF workout.  Probably everyone at some point.  Honest mistake.
• Do your push-ups in sets of five, that will be good
• I wonder if Nadia is done squatting?  I should have run 800s with Spencer.
• It’s hot
• When I lived in VA the humidity never got to me, Colorado is making me weak.  Ah, but we have snow and ice and run through it
• Joe took his shirt off, I’m taking off my shirt, it’s hot and maybe that will spare me 10 seconds from this damned workout
• Lance’s push-ups are fast.  Fine, 4-3 and 3s for push-ups
• What is wrong with my arms?  My arms suck.
• Joe is using chalk to count his rounds, shit I should do that, I don’t want to lose count
• Screw this 531 and my bench press, it’s certainly not helping my push-ups
  — 10 minutes in! —
• I am certain on my old Cindys’ that my push-ups were easy until 12 minutes in.  Why the change?  What the hell?  Maybe my push-ups sucked last time I did Cindy and I didn’t know it and now I’m holding a higher standard.  Probably not.
• I know I got 20+ rounds one time, what the hell?
• Todd is tall
• I wish Colorado was this warm
• How am I already back at push-ups?  WTF?
• Ok a set of 3 – 3 – 3 -1
• That didn’t work, what the hell is wrong with my push-ups?
  — 5 minutes left! —
• Five minutes left?!  Ok this is my time, I love the last 5 minutes of a 20 minute amrap, it’s go time!
• Where the hell is my go time?
• I must need a rest day.  You just took a rest day.  Maybe you need two
• Is it time yet?  I am so done.
• Everyone else is falling apart, I’m limited by push-ups
  — TIME —