Box Jumps: We're Now Friends

A classic staple CrossFit move is box jumps. It's literally exactly what it sounds like. Jumping onto a box. Easy right?! Wrong....so so wrong.

I have always been able to do a box jump. Like I said, it's not physically hard. It's just jumping. What IS hard is overcoming your own head.

Certain movements in CrossFit are very mentally challenging for me. And box jumps is (was) IT. When there was a box jump in the WOD I would literally try to jump for what seemed like minutes. It was probably seconds but that is beside the point. I would waste precious seconds of the WOD TRYING to jump on the box. It slowed me up, it aggravated me, it was ridiculous. After all, it was JUST A BOX.

I got better(ish) at them over time. Because of my typical routine, I normally train with the same coach a lot of the week. I had a change in schedule one day and ended up in a 6am class....alone with a coach who has trained me before but not while there were box jumps.

When it came time for the WOD portion, I gave her warning. "So box jumps and I don't really get along. I am in my own head about it and it takes forever for me to do them." She simply said, okay, we'll see.

I couldn't tell you what it was about that morning or that WOD. But somehow....my issues with box jumps dissipated into the wind. I breezed through the workout (as much as anyone breezes through a WOD) and did not hesitate on the box jump once. I was finally over it.

This was epic. A huge hurdle for me to get over. And I did it. My coach that morning said, if you wouldn't have told me you have issues with box jumps, I would have never know.

Now when the WOD's have box jumps, I never hesitate. If I fall, I don't let it mess with me.

When we did max effort box jumps a couple of weekends ago, I was able to get 28", second best women's height that day. (My husband got 33"!)

Today's WOD had box jumps. Although my back was bothering me and I had to modify the first portion of the round, I nailed the box jumps. And I plan to continue nailing the box jumps because now, box jumps and I, we're friends.

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