I found myself inexplicably frustrated the other day. I won’t say it was frustration directed at a student, because it wasn’t. It was a frustration directed at a coaching situation.
At first, I couldn’t name why this moment frustrated me and, now, I think I’ve figured it out. You see, the glue that connects movement together is something called skill transfer.
The notion here is that if you move well (or in a transferable way), you’ll not just learn one thing when practicing a movement. You’ll learn an entire library of things. What I’m saying is akin to learning the alphabet versus memorizing words.
The student I was working with had a common worldview.
It was a quantitative one. It was “Squats are squats and ten of them is better than nine of them, etc etc.” When in reality, the skill-based view of movement says, if I can squat well or pull well or push well, I can do anything that’s related very well.
I’m not saying you need to walk in the door with the world-view… far from it. But, you will need some curiosity.
Can you handle that?
10/1/26 WOD
DEUCE Athletics GPP
Complete 5 rounds of the following:
6 LM Curtsy Lunges (ea)
Complete 3 rounds for quality of:
12 Heel Elevated LM Goblet Squats
10 Heel Elevated BW Squats
8 Jump Squats
EMOM 9
Min 1: 5 DB Devils Press
Min 2: 12 alt. KB Gorilla Rows
Min 3: 10/8 Cals
DEUCE Garage GPP
8-8-8
Bent Row
Then, complete 3 rounds for quality of:
12 Tempo DB Flys (40X1)
:05 Inverted Row Iso Hold + 12 Inverted Rows
24 Band Pull Aparts
Then, AMRAP 8
1, 2, 3, 4.. Power Clean & Jerks (135/95)
20 Double Unders
Finisher: Combat Abs