Double Under Victory

   Any one who Crossfits knows the bane of double unders. For those not familiar with this movment it is just like jumping rope. However instead of the rope passing under you once for each jump, the rope must pass twice for each jump. The learning process for some is long and others not so long. For everyone there are many bruises and rope marks on the forearms and other places. A WOD that I did early in my Crossfit journey is Annie. See the workout below.


"Annie"
50-40-30-20-10 For Time
Double Unders
Sit-ups

   For those not able to double unders you substitute triple the amount of single under jump ropes. If you are still learning double unders the substitution works, but then you hit a threshold where you can not do single unders any faster. The last time I had done this work out I knew I was at that threshold. It took me 11:20 to complete the work out last time.

   Recently I have been able to become much more proficient with double unders. When I saw Annie was the work out of the day yesterday I was excited. This was my chance to see how much better my time would get. Here is a LINK to the video of me doing the Annie work out.

   Watching the video I can improve on my double unders on a couple things.
      1. My hands are still coming too far away from my body. I have a longer jump rope that is giving me some "forgiveness" with this, but to be really efficient this will need to change.
      2. Although it is not so obvious in the video I need to make sure that I am jumping up just before the rope comes to my feet. I found that it was much harder to string double unders when I was almost jumping down on the rope.
      3. Making sure I am jumping up instead of back. I have a tendency to move hence my "traveling" double under.

   Despite the improvements needing to be made I was able to still significantly beat my time! Instead of 11:20 I finished the work out in 8:44, improving my time by 2:36. :)

   On a side note I got first place at my work's mini triathlon. I had to Row 3k, Bike 3 miles, and Run 1 mile. Got it all done in 29:04! Also in the same month I got first place in a 5 minute bike sprint. The idea was to bike as far as you could in 5 min and I won going the distance of 1.88 miles. Needless to say I have been getting noticed more by those who participate in these random challenges each month. This month is max number of dips to failure. I will keep you posted to let you know where I finish and how many I do.

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---Chris Tucker---