I met many athletes who have been doing CrossFit for years and have an impressive arsenal of incredible skills. But some challenges still. Everything from double unders, muscle ups to handstands or the iron cross. If you believe Malcolm Gladwell’s research in Outliers, all skills can be mastered in 10,000 hours. Whether that means mastering a single movement or all CrossFit has to offer. If you practice ANYTHING for 10,000 hours or even 10,000 reps in a constantly varied environment like CF, you are bound to become a BEAST with beast skills (hat tip to Jim’s great blog).
At any rate, inspired by Malcolm and also out of guilt, I logged 500 double unders on this rest day on my way to 10,000 double unders for time (in as few days as possible)… (a belated response to a challenge my box had last year).
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