Today was my second Foundations class. The "lesson" was dead lifts. Unfortunately, I am starting to lose a bit of faith in our trainer. Her lesson was pretty quick and basic, which was fine. BUT when we were all practicing a few sets, I watched her stare at one of the kids while he attempted a rep. You could not have tried harder to do a dead lift more incorrectly (completely rounded back)...she said nothing. A few reps later, I watched her watch him again. This time, she commented on his back. He did another rep that looked almost exactly the same, to which she basically responded, "better." I was hoping the trainers would be a little more legit. Obviously, it's tough to spend time with everyone individually, but I would hope that if someone's form was so bad that they could hurt themselves, the trainer would stop them and fix it. Maybe things will change later in the Foundations course when the main dude (Jim) gets involved.
In any case, I learned a thing or two about my dead lift, so hopefully it's better now than it was before.
The WOD:
A scaled "Annie"
40-30-20-10
Double unders
Sit ups
My time was 6:15. No one else in the class could do doubles, so they had to do three singles for each double. I finished minutes ahead of everyone else, which felt really good. It was an easy WOD, but I still worked harder than I have in a long time.
Still loving it
That's awesome, you killed it, I'd be curious to see your rx time. Beig able to pound out double unders is clutch because they're almost like rest mid workout.
ReplyDeleteDid they teach double unders? Kind of surprise they didn't program a wod with deadlifts. You know, cause that's what you learned today.
Lame that this broad is clueless about coaching but good that you can tell the difference between a good deadlift and a ruptured disk waiting to happen.
hahaha @ the ruptured disk comment. they taught double unders in the 2 minutes before we started the WOD
ReplyDeletegood thing about deadlifts...i now have really good form picking up my pants after a number two. i'm not even joking...that's the last place i'd want to throw out my back.
ReplyDeletecan you string together double unders?
ReplyDeleteIf your coaches are falling short in some areas, get a CF Journal subscription. Still the best $25 I've spent on fitness related stuff, soooo many videos with coaching tips for form for just about everything you'll encounter. And sometimes it's just about getting the right cue (out of the dozens of cues coaches use to accomplish the same thing) to make you go "ohhhh, it's supposed to feel like thatttt"
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