The Joyous 12 Days of Christmas..

12 Drummers Drumming, 11 Pipers Piping, 10 Lords a leaping, 9 Ladies dancing, 8 Maids a Milking, 7 Swans a Swimming, 6 Geese a laying, 5 gooooldennn ringssss.. WAIT. No, that's not right. I've been sadly confused all these years! Apparently the 12 Days of Christmas is in fact a much more physical and greuling endeavor than singing this catchy little song. Why you ask? Well please, by all means, let me tell you about the real 12 Days of Christmas.

Today's WOD ("workout of the day" in the CrossFit lingo I mentioned in my prev. post) was The 12 Days of Christmas. It goes as follows;

1 burpee box jump
2 push press
3 strict pull ups
4 power cleans
5 back squats
6 ring dips
7 v ups
8 wall balls
9 kettlebell swings
10 toes to bar
11 thrusters
12 jumping lunges

So you know, you'd think you just run through this once or twice like a circuit.. LOL, WRONG. This exercise in done in ladder form.

It goes 1, 2-1, 3-2-1, 4-3-2-1, .. etc until you reach 12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 working your way all the way down from the 12 jumping lunges to the 1 burpee box jump. Holy hell. This 30 minutes (give or take) was brutal. They were really trying to make up for the fact that the gym won't be open for two and a half days weren't they? ;)

Though this was incredibly challenging and few modifications had to be made, it's rewarding to see myself achieving tasks that even last week I wasn't able to. So, all y'all, go get out of your comfort zone and push yourself. Outside of the comfort zone is where the fun really begins :)