Crossfit

One of the O.G. “CrossFit Girls” workouts, the Grace WOD is a famous CrossFit workout. The clean and jerks that comprise the workout are excellent for building barbell cycling capacity and the workout serves as an excellent CrossFit progress benchmark.

You can be confident that if your Grace time gets faster over the span of a year, you’re definitely getting fitter!

Anyone who has spent more than about 30 seconds pedalling their way into the Assault Bike void knows what’s up the second the words come out of your mouth.

“Hey, man! We have some Assault Bike intervals today. Do you…?”

“Oh, gosh…oh, please…oh, no!”

Most of the articles that talk about the “hardest CrossFit workouts” or “REALLY SO HARD CROSSFIT WORKOUTS OMG!1!!!1” start off by telling you all about what makes a CrossFit WOD “hard”.

I think you know what makes a workout hard so screw all that nonsense.

Let’s get straight to the list!

When you’re gutting through a tough AMRAP CrossFit workout, you only really have one main shred of solace to make you feel better.

“At least there is a time cap…” you keep repeating yourself.

Unfortunately, there is no way to make that time cap come any quicker. A 20-minute AMRAP always lasts for 20 minutes.

“For time: Row 42,195 meters”

(AKA a marathon)

Yeah, that one makes the list. It is KIND of an intermediate WOD, though, don’t ya think?

Thankfully, you have another 29 more…manageable CrossFit rowing WODs to choose from!

There is no better sign of mental toughness than grinding though the first 20 minutes of a killer deadlift WOD and still picking up a heavy barbell to close things out.

I mean, what other type of CrossFit workout is going to fatigue the body with running, rowing, swinging, and kipping only to ask you to essentially win a powerlifting competition halfway through?

By incorporating CrossFit accessory work into programming, you enjoy two related, yet distinct benefits:

1. The direct benefit of the exercise

2. The supporting benefit of the exercise.

So…just do ’em!

If you’ve ever walked up to a loaded barbell and attempted a heavy clean without warming up, you can probably speak to the importance of a warm up.

If you haven’t done this before, I wouldn’t suggest doing it. However, doing so will give you a much greater appreciation a proper CrossFit warm up!

Grab a Strong Guy and a Fast Guy…you’ll probably have to lift AND run. A Gymnast Guy will help with the handstand push-ups

…or maybe get a Versatile Guy if your WOD requires the use of black or white magic…just to be safe.

Party assembled? Now crush these CrossFit Partner WODs!