Disappointed

I was so excited for today's workout. It looked awesome- front squats and sit-ups (incline bench, arms over head).

Prescribed called for 185# front squats!!! My 1-rep max is only 95# so obviously, I was going to have to scale it slightly.

CrossFit offers different levels of scaling for you already and they have a theme-
"Big Dawgs"
"Porch"
"Pack"
"Puppies"
and finally, "Buttercups"

Normally I do the pack scaling, but even still, today's pack called for 95# front squats. The reps are 21-18-15-12-9-6-3. There's no way I can take my one rep max and do it 84 times.

So then I went to the Puppies scaling, which takes the weight down to 45-55# but also reduces the number of reps to 21-15-9-3.

This is where I'm not sure if I should just follow the scales as they have laid out, or push myself to do more.

I know I could not do "Pack" at 95#, so I chose to do "Puppies" at 55#. But it ended up being way too easy and only took me 7:37. I wish it would have been harder either by adding some weight (65# would have been perfect probably) or increasing the reps (back to prescribed). Now that would have been a fun challenge!

Not a bad workout- 48 front squats and 49 sit-ups in 7:37. I should be happy with that I suppose.

Kelsalynn