When you find the name of a WOD Hero on the board, you know you're about to breathe that part of the intrinsically American CrossFit © philosophy.
Hero WODs are a tribute.
They are the way the CrossFit relates, reminding them, with the Heroes: the American soldiers who gave their lives for the United States.
And, more widely, for freedom.
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At the top of CrossFit ©
Greg Glassman, before embarking on the successful CrossFit © adventure, he trained police officers.
Dave Castro, a company spokesman, was a Navy SEAL who discovered WOD while on duty. Like him, many American soldiers practice the discipline to stay fit during the service.
What is a Hero WOD
It's an workout named after a soldier who died on a mission - typically during the wars on terror in Iraq or Afghanistan - or a police or fire officer who died serving the community.
This at least at the beginning. In recent years the CrossFit © community has asked to pay honors to other fallen, as well as to those of the shootings in the schools, or to the victims of the Boston bombing.
In reality, only the former are recognized as senior officers.
We are talking about more than 160 WOD.
Some beloved Hero WOD
What do Hero WODs have in common?
Hardness. The Hero WOD in fact, they are among the most intense WODs imaginable: generally much more demanding than the average WOD.
It is basically a component of the act of tribute itself, because we are talking about sacrifice and suffering.
Another element of the tribute is the reps to perform, which often originate from the soldier's death date.
Hero WODs are loved as much as the classics Girl WOD.
We see the most common ... or the most difficult.
Arnie
In time, with a kettlebell:
- 21 Turkish get-up, right arm
- 50 Swings
- 21 Overhead squat, left arm
- 50 Swing
- 21 Overhead squat, right arm
- 50 Swing
- 21 Turkish get-up, left arm
"Arnie" Quinones was a Los Angeles firefighter who died on duty.
Luce
Wearing an 10 kili jacket, 3 round of:
- 1 running mile
- 10 Muscle up
- 100 Squat with free body
Ronald Luce died in Afghanistan: the vehicle he was traveling on ended up on a makeshift mine.
Tom
Multiple possible rounds in 25 minutes of:
- 7 Muscle up
- 11 Thruster (barbell from 155 pounds)
- 14 Toes to bar
Thomas Martin died in Iraq on October 14 2007.
Cameron
In time:
- 50 Sink walking
- 25 Chest to bar pull-ups
- 50 Box jumps, 24 inch box
- 25 Triple-unders
- 50 Back extensions
- 25 Dips to the rings
- 50 Knees to elbows
- 25 Wallball "2-fer-1s", with ball from 10 kili
- 50 Sit-ups
- 5 climb to the rope from 15 feet
Thomas Cameron died in a helicopter accident during a training mission.
And then, of course, there is Murph.