Outside the box and under my skin

Had a chance to visit the Fraziers at CrossFit Clarksville this weekend, where Rick took me through today's posted WOD on the main page: 15/12/9/6/3 Deadlifts with 225 lbs superset against 50/40/30/20/10 pullups. I walked into the workout with two mistakes: calluses that were not groomed down with the Dremel tool (yup, they ripped open) and also got greedy and didn't scale the deadlifts. Probably should have stuck with bodyweight instead of 225 lbs. I wound up paying the price in terms of ripped calluses and a very, very long performance time: 40 mins, 10 secs.

Couple of lessons I'm taking away from this:

1. Use the dang Dremel tool or don a pair of gloves when the workout calls for constant gripping on over 150 pullups and heavy deadlifts. Tough to grip and zoom along on every rep with ripped hands. You won't hear me harassing you ever again about wearing gloves on the workouts. Never.

2. Follow my own advice to never ever hesitate to scale the workout when it makes sense. I lifted the 225 lbs a couple of times and knew it was heavy, but didn't do the math on a total of 45 lifts.

Having said all that.....I did finish the workout - had to go with jumping pullups (from the ground, no box) after the second bout, but force times distance still holds, so with that one modification, I did finish the workout. Even if my workout clothes almost went out of style by the time the workout concluded!