welcome to the club - I still have my battle wound from the box jump and my boobs still cringe when I try to go high (yep, I chest landed on the edge of the box)

Oh, yeah! Don't let 'em get inside your head!

I ripped a toenail off once.... that was fun....

Completely mental to me! I know I can actually do it, and have done it before, but I'm terrified of the damn box!

I know how you feel. I busted my leg doing box jumps during Hope. It didn't feel that bad at the time. Minor little gash. By that night I could barely put weight on the leg and the next day had the ugliest bruise going from lower/mid shin almost up to my knee. (I am a bruiser anyways. Don't think I have had a bruise free day since starting crossfit). It is almost healed up now about a month later. They had us do ONE-LEGGED box jumps as a warmup on Monday. I looked at my coach like he was nuts. I had to pep talk myself into attempting it bc I could just see myself wiping out on it. Box jumps are scary ;-)

I think everyone has done it a few times, I have no visible scars though so I am impressed with you war wounds:) In fact I don't have any permanent scars from CF which I find pretty surprising considering the damage I have done over the years.

Conquered my fear of the box!!!

Long story short, we had to do box jumps in a WOD and I've been taking the weanie way out and jumping on a folded up mat instead. There was something about that box that even though it was only a little taller than the mat something about the box just scared me. Today I got out my mat for a 7round WOD and after the first round my coach came over and put an 18in box in front of the mat and refused to leave until I jumped on the box!!

I DID IT!! Then I did it 34 more times :-)

I ripped a toenail off once....

That just made me cringe. That must've been HORRIBLE!

7round WOD

o_O whoa.

anything over 5 rounds makes me whine inside...(like the stuff between the mile runs in the Murph).

Good job getting over your fear though. Prior to that, would you do the box step-ups instead? I saw you said you jumped on a mat, just wondering about the step ups. My wife is afraid of the box too. She and I both know it's all mental, but it's hard to overcome.

Sorry for a dumb question, but is there a standard height for the boxes? I know they come in varying sizes, but for example with many of the WODs that use weights, it may say to use 135lbs for men and 95 for women, or something like that. If the WOD just says box jumps, is the expectation that you are targeting a specific height?

you work your way up. I can't jump, but I do step-ups. They started me with one plate on the floor (I had severe balance issues along with a back injury) and now I'm up to 24" . Even just doing step ups, that box is intimidating!

Sorry for a dumb question, but is there a standard height for the boxes? I know they come in varying sizes, but for example with many of the WODs that use weights, it may say to use 135lbs for men and 95 for women, or something like that. If the WOD just says box jumps, is the expectation that you are targeting a specific height?

In most WODs, you'll see 24/20 for the box heights, 24" for men, 20" for women. That's typical. Some of my box's WODs have been incorporating taller boxes, 30/24.

When I started CrossFit at my box (about 8 months ago), the heights typically were 24/20. Now they are 30/24. But, of course, we can do whatever we feel comfortable with.

Right now I have two bruised, cut up shins from a box jump fail on Monday. We were doing 1 rep max height box jumps. We were doing them on these big blue cushiony blocks and I got up to 24" with no problem. I think at least one guy got up to 51". But after the WOD, I stupidly thought I should try the jump again but on the 24" wooden box. Failed and bled. I just hope this doesn't mentally ruin me for box jumps. I was already a bit fearful of them anyway.

7round WOD

o_O whoa.

anything over 5 rounds makes me whine inside...(like the stuff between the mile runs in the Murph).

Good job getting over your fear though. Prior to that, would you do the box step-ups instead? I saw you said you jumped on a mat, just wondering about the step ups. My wife is afraid of the box too. She and I both know it's all mental, but it's hard to overcome.

I've done step ups on boxes before without any problems, but it wasn't the same as the plyometrics you get from the actual jumps. So I was content with the mat... until my coach gave me the shove I needed.

A follow up to the 18in box story. We had a BBQ at our box for July 4th and started talking about box jumps. My coach said that her philosophy was if you can jump on an 18in box then you can jump a 20in box. Then she leans over to me and say "You hear that Ruth, if you can jump an 18 in box you can jump a 20."

Well this past Monday I walked into the WOD that I knew had box jumps in it so I was psyching myself up to get back on the box... when I looked around couldn't find an 18in box. THEY REMOVED ALL THE 18in BOXES!!! So now we had a 12 or a 20in and I wasn't about to let it get the better of me jump a 12. So ended up jumping a 20in... scared the hell out of me and when we were working on the max height skill I added a couple more inches of plates freaked out during my jump and did a nose dive over the box, but it all turned out ok.

But I used the 20in in the WOD and did again yesterday too which resulted in a first ever RX!!!

Sorry for a dumb question, but is there a standard height for the boxes? I know they come in varying sizes, but for example with many of the WODs that use weights, it may say to use 135lbs for men and 95 for women, or something like that. If the WOD just says box jumps, is the expectation that you are targeting a specific height?

I believe its 24 inch for men and 20 inch for women