We're getting amped for this year's Survival of the Fittest in Woodstock. We have eight competitors representing our gym on Saturday at 9AM. If you've never been to a Garage Games competition, you should know it's a sight to behold.
The games are more about work capacity than anything else. Sometimes that work capacity is tested with a heavy weight and many repititions. Other times it's only your body weight and the requirements are monumental, with reps in the hundreds. And sometimes the only task is to hoist weight in a Herculean effort that only that athlete can accomplish.
You can read the faces of the athletes. You can see the doubt plainly, and the fear of shame and the determination to finish at any cost. That's how you know a change is happening, right now, right here, because each and every movement requires total committment. If the athlete allows the doubt to grow, to overpower their determination, then they will never complete the task. But the drive to finish is strong, and every test of doubt and fear only makes it stronger.
These athletes aren't truly competing against each other, nor even against gravity. They're at war with themselves, to push the limits of the possible for themselves, and to vanquish for a time all within them that wails to flee and cower. These games are primal because the desire for flight is a primal one, and so is the will to stand and fight. These games are tribal because the tribe together can conquer, no matter the task. Come and witness.
Warm-up:
Run 800m
10 Inchworms
10 Pass throughs
10 Med ball cleans
Today's WOD, for time:
21 - 15 - 9 of
Squat cleans
Push-ups
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