This is not just a picture of a car hiding from hail, this is an illustration of something…
This picture may not be a perfect representation of the principle of committing to the skill/movement, but here’s why it reminded me of it:
There are many ways to injure yourself doing things (not actively participating in your body’s own maintenance and prevention is one). What this picture signifies to me is not committing to the movement or not committing to the skill.
There are fail points in everything we do:
- You stopped pulling on a pullup that started getting a little tough
- The squat got heavy and so you decided you wanted out while you were on the way down
- You do a back tuck (back flip) and you try to bail in the middle of it, resulting in a gorgeous face first landing
In what we do here, in regards to weightlifting, gymnastics, or stupid human tricks, you cannot stop at that potential fail point.
If you try and bail out of a snatch (catching in a squat, mind you), you will either never be able to lift the weight OR you will never do it well and safely. If you try to bail out of kicking into a handstand just as you get finished kicking, you will probably topple over and land on something you’re not supposed to land on. If you give up at the bottom of a squat before you ever try standing it back up, you’ll never know if you could have pushed through the slow ascension.
The point is, the potential fail points and/or injury points in exercises, skills, movements, or tricks is going to be not fully committing to what you’re doing. If you don’t fully commit to it, you run the risk. If you commit to it, and you have the proper instruction, there is no reason for fear other than never having done it before (the worst time is the first time, right?).
Stand up that squat; fully commit to kicking up into a handstand; drop under the bar in a clean or a snatch; pull your knees hard to your chest when you’re attempting that back tuck (or back flip to the rest of us). You’ll probably get it done and every time after that won’t be as scary.
Plus, you might be able to cross something else off your goal list that you didn’t think you could get done!
WL
EMOM x 10
1 Power Snatch
*Same weight across all sets
MetCon
For Time:
21-15-9 Alternating DB Snatches (50/30)
250m Row
Short and sweet today!
