What's your "I know I should(n't) be doing this"?

[kendraschannel1]

@devorgilla Yep, I prefer squats, deadlifts, lunges, and cable pull throughs.

 

[unicorns26]

@brianhex Running too much/too fast, too soon every time I come back to it from a break.

 

[chisel]

@brianhex Not doing shoulder prehab as much as I should - even though I keep complaining about wonky shoulders. I'm getting better at it tho!

Not pushing myself/progressing in cardio.

And like someone else said, I never do abs.

 

[oluwasemi34]

@brianhex Heavy ass squats. Am now bedridden for a day and half due to my hamstrings getting destroyed

 

[itoeruxi]

@brianhex I hate doing my shoulders. I know I should switch them in on my gym days, but they painfully click as a result of doing them too much a year ago.

 

[hammersmyth]

@itoeruxi Saaame. Shoulders are temperamental and they're such a big muscle group (at least for your upper body) that you really feel it when you tire them out. I do some face pulls and OHP, but I never want to.

 

[godislove19933]

@brianhex I don’t really warm up and I’m terrible about stretching. They’re just both so boring!

 

[peter92]

@brianhex If the scale says 158.9, I log my weight as 158.

 

[feedmysheep]

@brianhex Eating a healthy, balanced breakfast, lunch and dinner so that I can justify eating ice cream and chocolate for dessert basically every day.

 

[eldridge]

@feedmysheep Same, my diet is "healthy balanced meals plus cookies and ice cream"

Someone plz follow me around every day and remind me that grocery store cookies in the work break area are not worth eating

 

[feedmysheep]

@eldridge I mean it fits my calorie goal and I'm happy with my weight... and I can live with having a bit of a pot belly if it means we get cookies and ice cream, right??

 

[lfschenone]

@feedmysheep You guys are my people.

 

[manjanek]

@brianhex I do half assed burpees every time. I learned about "competition burpees" for Spartan races - chest has to hit the ground, then the jump is just hands over ears and feet leave the floor. Which is great in a race setting, but I should still be doing more in the gym than just flopping to the ground and popping back up!

 

[jwilging01]

@manjanek Mannnn. I completed the Spartan recently. Talk about an incentive to rock the obstacles- avoiding burpees! I do a rock solid full burpee, but doing those in Spartan is a whole other ball game.

 

[manjanek]

@jwilging01 I know right! They are just brutal in the middle of a race. Luckily I've managed to only fail the spear throw, but I get a solid 30 burpees in every single race.

 

[hammersmyth]

@manjanek I usually end up doing the step up instead of a jump after 5 or so reps. I blame it on my bad hips but maybe I'm just lazy.

 

[dawn16]

@manjanek Ugh why are burpees the worst??? I think I probably do the ugliest burpee on the earth.

 

[dawn16]

@manjanek Oh man! Everytime they come up in a small number of reps (like 5) at crossfit I think today is the day that I’m going jump down and then jump up again, instead of stepping down/up.

And then I get past 2 and am dying and think oh fuck this.

 

[guisepine]

@manjanek The only burpees I will do are Bosu burpees. I have a cyst in one of my hands so having my hands flat on the ground puts pressure on it and gives me pain, but holding the Bosu on its sides helps me. Plus, it looks pretty badass! Instead of a jump at the top of the burpee, you stand up and raise the bosu over your head.

 

[wordsabre]

@brianhex I hate pushups. Partly because I'm just weak, partly because I broke my wrist a few years ago so I get some pain in my wrist after 5-6 attempts. A workout I just started has four different pushup variations throughout the week, including three in one day (today). I know I should stick it out and, starting with pushups on my bench, see how much I can progress to doing some "real" ones by the end of the 8 week program, but a big part of me just wants to switch to a different routine without pushups.