Fight Gone Bad - For Real

Sunday, April 28;

Finally all of that hard work has paid off. I've been battling stupid Fight Gone Bad for over a year now. My goal has always been to break 300. It doesn't sound too far off. Last year my score was 297.5 (we were still doing pullups which created fractions of reps). This year I've done FGB a few times. I've always been a few points away from my goal. The worst attempt was over the winter. I had just gotten over a nasty sickness and my shoulder was doing really badly. I think I got about 260.

I woke up this morning and I no desire to do today's workout. Last year I had done a lot of fundraising and I was really intesnse about it. This year, I haven't had much time to dedicate to fundraising, but I have been making all of the FGB practices, so I knew I'd be pretty close to my goal.

Today, I decided to take a few new tactics. I asked my partner (Byron, who was a counting super star) to cout total reps, so I'd know how far away from my goal I was. Then I also took Stuart's advice into consideration. I scrapped the old tactic of setting goal reps for each station. That was stopping me from really pushing it in the first round. This time I was able to get well over 100 in my first round, which I've never done before. I got 40 reps in the box jumps right off the bat. That made a huge difference.

I knew going into the last roung that I only had to get 75 reps to make my goal. That meant 25 reps at box jumps, kb high pulls and push press. Then the reps at row and wall ball were just extra love. I knew I had made it by the time I got to my final station, but Byron was counting reps in the individual round. That put me at about 80 when I started push press. I thought my addition had been right, but I didn't want to risk it. I pushed through to get 20 more reps to nearly make 100 reps in my final round. I missed that by 1 or 2 reps.

That didn't matter though, because my final score was 328! Score! I not only met my goal but I killed it. I AM THRILLED!



A big thanks for all my FGB counting partners (Alyse, Gar & Byron). Thanks Stuart for suggesting that I get rid of my pacing strategy. I also brought back a little of Ray's encouragement from last year. The "pick it up and give me one rep" rule really helped this morning. Thanks Ray!