It is so important to be willing to fail. Last weekend the benchmark WOD was Diane. This WOD is a 21-15-9 of Deadlifts and Handstand Push-Ups. The thought of doing 45 Handstand Push-Ups is pretty scary. And it should be. I’ve only done them once before, it was just a few sets of 5 or so. But rather than mod them to the box for this, I told myself f-it. If I hit the time cap, so be it. I want to see if I can do them with my feet up in the air, and instead of modding to a box, I compromised to modding with 2 ab mats under my head. Still a pretty big mod, but I’ve been feeling damn good about this all week.
Approaching that wall, and deciding that I’m going to flip over scares the crap out of me. It is by far the worst part. And that last set of 9, when I have to break it into sets of 3, and repeat that flip over and over just sucks, but is awesome at the same time.
I still say you got pushed in the wrong direction for this one. I wish we would have had like 5 or 10 minutes of class instruction on these rather than just telling you and everyone else to grab a box for the mod. When the hell are you supposed to learn how to do Handstand push-ups? Maybe it’s a safety thing? I’m just not sure what the thinking is. There were only about 6 people in my CrossFit Las Vegas class, so I was able to get some great personal attention for this one, maybe the 30+ people we had just put it out of reach to teach it safely. Long story short, no more modding this with a box for you!!!!