The people pictured in this photo are practicing a skill we all learned one way or another with no coach. As young babies achieve key milestones of motor development, the abdominal system is built first with the benefit of stability provided by the ground (or whatever we’re laying on). Soon after we accumulate the capacity to roll over, we all eventually crawl and then stand and then walk.
This process has been happening for hundreds of thousands of years.
When I think of the pure nature of babies learning these “movements,” the emotional part of me adores the blank slate of the human experience and feels overwhelmed with sadness for the eventual pain of the human experience.
None of us are making it out of this experience unscathed.
Just like the inevitability of our ability to teach ourselves to crawl, we’re all learning how to suffer, too. That fact might be a good reminder that everyone you meet is hurting along with you and compassion is the language of humanity.
I’m with you.
8/22/25 WOD
DEUCE Athletics GPP
Complete 4 rounds of the following
8 Fat Grip Chin Ups
Complete 3 rounds for quality of:
12 Bent Over Rear Delt Raises
16 alt Incline DB Bench Presses
15 1-DB Bicep Curls + 6th Street 90º Iso Carry
Complete the following for time:
6th Street Hill Run
60 Ball Slams
80 Lateral Plyo Boxes
6th Street Hill Run
DEUCE Garage GPP
1-1-1-1
Banded Front Squat
Complete 3 rounds for quality of:
8 3-Way Medball Series
Then, with one partner working at a time, complete the following:
AMRAP 12:
10 KB Swings AHAP
20/16 Cal Bike