Get your goat, CrossFit style

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I Lift Heavy $hit

The expression “Get Your Goat” is a mystery to me.  Over the past couple years I’ve heard coach after coach say that I ought to be working on my “goats” when encouraging me to focus on those things in CrossFit that really throw my workouts off.  For me, some of these movements include running, pistols (1 legged squats), handstand push-ups and muscle ups.  So I got to thinking where the heck did this expression originate?

After a bit of Googling, I came upon the following article on The Phrase Finder website:

A commonly repeated story which purports to explain the phrase’s origin is that goats were placed with racehorses to keep them calm. When ne’er-do-wells who wanted the horse to race badly removed it, i.e. they ‘got someone’s goat’, the horse became unsettled and ran badly. 

So mystery aside, I’m running again!  It’s been nearly 6 weeks since I last ran, but I’m happy to report I ran 800m last night with relatively no discomfort.  Finally feeling close to 100% again… well, with the exception that this “Moose” doesn’t like to run at all, I’m pretty stoked to be able to do it again and complain freely while doing so.  Now if I don’t run it isn’t because of an injury, its just because I hate it.  ;-)

Warm-up: 2 rounds NFT (not for time)

• 400 meter run
• 21 x squat clean @ 95lbs

Technique:  Back Squat

• 3 x 225 lbs
• 3 x 285 lbs
• 2 x 315 lbs
• 2 x 345lbs
• 1 x 365 lbs

Workout of the Day:  7 minute AMRAP (as many rounds as possible)

• 3 x handstand push-up;
• 6x deadlifts @ 225lbs

I managed to complete 9 rounds plus 2 HSPU.  Not bad, but I really struggle with the handstand push-ups (a goat of mine!).

What’s your “GOAT”?