i try to do them. But usually i don't... It's mainly because my knee is bad and i haven't made it to the doctor yet. so i rather not try anything. Once it's beter i will try to do more.

Personally i never really took note about it. But now that im getting into a little bit better shape im going to look it up now! 

I try to do them as often as I can, but some days I'm either up late to rediculous hours of the night doing homework, or I'm simply wiped out. On those days I still try to do my own brief workout, but nothing worth posting. Otherwise I'm pretty happy with how they are. It's a little tough to run due to snow and freezing air around here, and I don't have a pullup bar, but those are my problems not WODs problems.

I dont too the work ot of the day, because it is way past my level, i try to do as mch of it as i can, and i don't fell me posting that will really help anyone. Dont get me wrong, i have alot of respect for it, and i rave abot it whenever i can (just ask my Gym teacher)

Manilla, have you seen the exercise substitutions?

The exercises are meant to be a challenge for people in very good shape, which means that many of them will be simply too much for someone in fair to good shape, and nigh on impossible for someone in bad shape.

Hopefully though that doesn't discourage people form doing them, as there are substitutions for each exercise, if you can't do a single push up, you can hold yourself at arm's length up from the floor. If that's too much, you can do it from your knees, if that's too much, do it lying down completely and just put pressure on your hands ... almost all exercises are nearly infinitely scalable like this, and we encourage people to try them at whatever level they can.

I personally usually can't do the whole workout as it prescribed, and sometimes just the APK warmup wears me out!!

Things change form day to day and person to person, so part of the message here is ADAPT. Either adapt the exercises, the times, or yourself, and slowly but surely things will build.

For some people they will have to do negative pullups for months before they can do just one pullup, and when they do, it is  a HUGE accomplishment!!

Haha yeah, the warmup is a workout in itself, but it's well worth it!
The workouts are definitely scaleable, only you know what your body needs on a day to day basis, and you should listen accordingly! Which isn't to say you shouldn't push yourself, but you don't have to push so hard in the beginning :p

I do the workouts to show my dedication to myself, the competition is with myself. I can't tell you the number of times in the past that I've told myself "OK! I'm gonna start working out regularly," and didn't keep up with it. My passion for parkour is what drives me here now, I have a reason for the workouts, they provide me with a reward in the form of going out one day and realizing "did my precision jumps just increase 4 inches" or "my cat climbs are so much faster now!" And in the form of just being physically fit, it's a darn good feeling [and my girlfriend likes it too :p].

It's a great oppurtunity to help yourself. The fact that they are there, on the front page, provided for us is awesome. The fact that it's switched up every day helps it from not getting old or feeling like a boring routine, and the fact that we have this great community here to push eachother further is just awesome.

I know a lot of people are busy, or think they don't have time. Hell, I'm busy and don't have a lot of 'free' time. I'm a second semester senior in college taking 5 classes, a Senior Art Show preparation class, an internship, working as a Tech Tutor on campus, and I'm a full-time boyfriend :p The time admittedly is scarce, but I make the time. It seems like it at first, but 30 minutes [on average I guess?] is not a lot of time to take out of my day! And as I've said before, it's totally worth it, the rewards are immense.

Back to the scaleability though, it is really easy to just scale these workouts down to your level. By either changing the actual excercises, or just cutting the numbers / reps down. Here's a link to the excercise substitutions article, with a little snippet :


P.S. M2 - I'm surprised you're up late enough to see my posts on the WoD :p Not to say you're not a big boy who can decide his own bedtime... =D

After being injured, it was hard for me to get back into the habbit of doing them daily. im such a wanker.


im gonna go do the wod.