gotta walk before you can crawl

In high school my pre cal teacher is the smartest man I have ever talked to in my life. I'm pretty sure this guy founded mensa. He had a saying that to get good at a particular level of math, to just take the course after it. For instance to handle pre cal, your algebra 2 has to be solid, and if it wasn't solid it had better sharpen quickly lest you get left behind.

I took this theory and have started applying it to crossfit. I just try to push forward in difficulty and hope that the rest of me can catch up. When I started about 4 weeks ago, I was using the assistance bands for my pull ups because I could only do about 2 and there was no way I could complete the workouts. Well during a particular workout that included sets of thrusters and pullups, I was getting tired of having to slip the band around my foot (think a giant high tension rubber band, so getting it on wasn't the easiest) and towards the final sets decided to just give it a go without the band and hope my body could catch up. To my delight I was able to handle the pullups then and made the decision from then on out that I would only pull out the bands in extreme situations (i.e I literally cannot do another pullup during a workout). I feel like that decision was me taking the next math class and hoping that my previous math skills would sharpen up.

Warmup:

200 m run

200 m run (backwards)

12 pushups

12 slamballs

12 lunges

12 situps

12 wallballs

WOD:

"Cindy"

AMRAP 20 minutes:

5 pullups

10 pushups

15 body weight squats

Todays named WOD was Cindy, but fortunately for today it was a partner WOD. Partner A would complete a round, then partner B would do a round (full round) and so forth. My partner and I really pushed it today and completed 20 rounds. The big accomplishment for me was that I didn't use any assistance at any point of the pullups, meaning I completed 50 pullups today which is about a 30000% increase from about a month ago.