Worst WODs for a newbie

[teressap1]

@mydonspace Almost 8 years ago I showed first day with heavy overhead squats programmed. Coming fresh from a college athletics background I thought CrossFit would be easy.

Man, was I humbled.

 

[headbanger]

@mydonspace Seven comes to mind it's pretty brutal

 

[jeffp]

@headbanger This is the one that immediately popped into my head too.

 

[mikestaba]

@mydonspace High volume WODs are a big problem for newbies. They don’t know the amount of pain and sorrow they will wake up to.

 

[thesamaritan97]

@mydonspace One we did today… 10 BMU, 20 reps 125kg DL, 30 GHDs, 20 reps 125kg DL and 10 BMU for time

 

[taznq15]

@mydonspace I think it was my 2nd week - after a manageable first week where I thought “oh this is hard but I’m scaling and hanging in there” - when Baseline made me almost puke

 

[clemi]

@mydonspace My first WOD was badger and I was definitely not ready for all that running

 

[wingsofthedawn]

@clemi I was about 2 months into it when Badger came up. I went very dark places during that one, even scaled to hell on weights.

 

[clemi]

@wingsofthedawn I also scaled it down with weight and still had a near death experience. It’s been a few months and I still consider that one of the worst

 

[karmensita]

@mydonspace Years ago i signed up it was in the middle of games. I had no idea. Did on boarding and then my first class was the games where it was a burpees/ thruster ladder going down from 21… i finished but I thought about quitting.

 

[ambunny]

@mydonspace A gym I was training at for a while did a running clinic once/week in the summertime, where we tested our 5k run, did weeks of run/sprint drills, and retested.

A new member showed up for their first day on retest day, where all we did was run 5k. They never came back.

 

[neowatchman]

@mydonspace Any that the person doesn't properly scale.

 

[prk5005]

@mydonspace Haha Volkswagen...

 

[diogenestousinope]

@mydonspace My first class was a 5k run. I wasn’t and still am not a runner!

 

[microgirl]

@mydonspace Death row is pretty terrible. Time just stops and it never seems to end

 

[wretchedredemptionmusic]

@mydonspace Pretty much anything with an interruption, where if you scale incorrectly the interruption starts to take more and more time until eventually you never get to primary part of the wod.

So yeah, Kalsu.

 

[jhumby]

@mydonspace Isabel or Grace

 

[keith89]

@mydonspace Anything that involves multiple rounds of burpees before/after a technical movement like a snatch. Technique is hard enough for someone new (like me) but throw burpees into the mix and technique goes "out the window".

 

[jord]

@mydonspace Fran

 

[eclipse122778855]

@mydonspace Hidalgo