Flip the Script - Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026

Flip the Script

It’s easy to focus on what didn’t happen. We see it everywhere right now. Headlines saying the Canadian men’s and women’s hockey teams “lost the gold.” Conversations framed around what slipped away rather than what was achieved.

But let’s flip the script for a moment.

They didn’t lose something they had. They never had the gold to begin with. What they did do was win silver. An Olympic silver medal, the second best team in the world. Think about that. Out of every athlete, every team, every country, they stood on a podium at the highest level of sport. That’s not a loss, that’s an incredible accomplishment. And yet, as athletes, our instinct is almost always the same. We look for what we could have done better. We replay the moments, the missed opportunities, the small things that, if changed, might have led to a different outcome.

That instinct lives in all of us, it certainly lives in me. After finishing the Open workout, my first thought wasn’t pride. It was regret, I wished I had pushed a little harder on the wall balls. If I had, maybe I could have finished the last nine reps and gotten back to the box for step overs. That was the story I told myself at first.

But that wasn’t the real story. The real story was this: I jumped onto a 20 inch box 37 times. Yes, 37, because on my first set of 18, when I got to 17, I was so excited that I was about to finish the set that I jumped off the box too quickly and got a no rep. I had to do another. I didn’t make that mistake again.

For many of you, that might sound like just another movement. But for me, it wasn’t. 20 inch box jumps have scared me ever since I dislocated my shoulder. I’ve stepped up to that height, Ive jumped onto lower boxes, but I honestly can’t tell you the last time I jumped onto a 20 inch box. 9 years ago, maybe. It’s an irrational fear. The fear of tripping, of trying to catch myself with my arm of the shoulder that I dislocated, and causing issues to that shoulder. Totally irrational, but a real fear all the same.

Going into the workout, I was planning to scale. Then on Saturday, I watched a group of women fighting to hit the wall ball target with a 14 pound ball. They were struggling, pushing, refusing to quit. And I told myself, if they can fight for those reps, I can try to face this fear. So thank you ladies for that. Before every jump, I said the same words out loud: “Big jump.” And I did it. So the first thought in my mind should have been simple: I did it, and I should have just been so proud. If it were any of you, I would have been so proud. But the athlete in me, my first thought was darn it, I should have pushed the wall ball harder. While that drive does help us grow., and improve, it can also ruin what should be a proud moment.

That’s why flipping the script matters. Instead of focusing only on what we didn’t finish, what we didn’t hit, or where we fell short, we need to recognize what we did accomplish. The breakthroughs, the fears we faced and of course and most importantly the effort we gave. This is especially true right now, for those of you competing in the Open. Your score on the leaderboard does not tell the whole story. The whole story is in the courage it took to show up, the reps you fought for, the moments where you chose to keep going instead of backing down.

So flip the script.

Find the positive in what you did and stand in that. Let it fuel you, and then, from that place of pride, keep growing.

Because progress isn’t just about doing better next time.
It’s also about recognizing how far you’ve already come, and that goes for every workout outside of competition and in everyday training too. It can also be said for all the moments outside of training and in your everyday life as well.

Flip the script.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026

Focus:

Shoulder Press
5 - 5 - 3 - 3 - 3

WOD:

24 min EMOM
Min 1: 10 Push Press 95/65
Min 2: 15 Russian KB Swings 24/16
Min 3: ME DU's
Min 4: Rest

Score is the DU's

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