{"id":2674,"date":"2011-06-15T23:03:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T03:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2011-06-15T23:08:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T03:08:16","slug":"henry-ford-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/henry-ford-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Ford, Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The skill\/strength segment today was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8tKjQeIVCfQ\">muscle-ups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8tKjQeIVCfQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. Ha ha.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, like most things CrossFit, I had to take a modification or do what they call a &#8220;progression&#8221;. My progression was having the rings about chest high&#8212;feet on the floor, ass by my feet, rings touching&#8212;and getting my chest up and through the rings using my legs. And my arms, but mostly my legs. Then jumping up until my arms were straight by my sides.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley watched my first few and said I had the movement down but, for the next reps, I should make it violent, throwing my head and chest between the rings. It&#8217;s true that, with a kipping* muscle-up, that&#8217;s what you have to do.<\/p>\n<p>The thought that went through my head was, &#8220;But why should I bother?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I realized, in that moment, that Ashley was coaching me as if I would someday do a muscle-up, while I was training as if I&#8217;d <em>never, ever, in a million years<\/em> do a muscle-up.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, there are things I do well, physically. If you&#8217;ve never seen me salsa, well, that&#8217;s a shame. And I&#8217;m getting better at double-unders and Olympic lifts and whatnot. But there are certain things that I just believe are impossible for me. (And let&#8217;s be honest, chances are good I won&#8217;t ever do a muscle-up.)<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s normal. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m a freak. In that regard, anyway. People generally believe they have limitations. That&#8217;s why the motivational poster industry exists.<\/p>\n<p>But what struck me about that realization was that I wasn&#8217;t even <em>thinking<\/em> that I was <em>thinking<\/em> that. It was my reality, the water to my fish.<\/p>\n<p>A wise dude who made a bunch of cars once said, &#8220;Whether you think that you can, or that you can&#8217;t, you are usually right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many things I think I can&#8217;t do, and I don&#8217;t even know that I think I can&#8217;t do them.<\/p>\n<p>*using the momentum of your body, as opposed to a &#8220;dead-hang&#8221;, which is much, much harder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skill\/strength segment today was muscle-ups. &nbsp; So, yeah. Ha ha. Anyway, like most things CrossFit, I had to take a modification or do what they call a &#8220;progression&#8221;. My progression was having the rings about chest high&#8212;feet on the floor, ass by my feet, rings touching&#8212;and getting my chest up and through the rings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/henry-ford-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Henry Ford, Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}