Day: March 1, 2012

My body feels like it was hit by a bus. All of those failed attempts at 135# snatches took a toll on my shoulders and back.

I’m going to try and get at least 5-10 minutes of DU practice every day until I can knock them out consistently. If I’m in for a CrossFit class, I’ll work on them before class, otherwise I’ll get out to the parking lot here at my apartment.

Today’s practice started out pretty rough. I tried going back to single-single-double-single-single-double, but couldn’t find a rhythm. After a few minutes I started working on a higher jump for singles to get the feel for it. I had to slow the rope done quite a bit for these, but they felt like I was on to something. It didn’t take more than a minute or so for these to feel comfortable, so after starting with 2-3 high jump singles I shifted to doubles. I knocked out 16 in a row. Shortly after I did 12 in a row. Not too much later, a new PR with 26 in a row! I think I found my key. I did a few more and called it a day.

Great progress for the first day of DU practice. I bet the CrossFit Games Open workouts are going to have DUs next week or the week after so I have time.