And I call myself an animal lover!

Going along with my theme this year of "Sorry, animals, but you must die so I can thrive and perform well," I learned an exercise today called "skin the cat."  (And despite the saying, I don't really think there's more than one way to do it.)  Here's a quick video to give you an idea of what the exercise is (since it's easier to watch than to explain):  

And here is me, at the prospect of this exercise -- "No, sir, please don't make me!"

But do them I did.  It took me a bit to get the hang of it, mainly because being upside down makes me panicky.  Fortunately my understanding trainer William was very reassuring.  Maybe I can transfer this learning experience to attempting unmodified handstand pushups.

So, for the record, the WOD was:

500m row
50 walking lunges with 25-lb plate overhead
40 back extensions
30 wall balls
20 ring dips
10 skin the cat
20 knees to elbow
30 burpees
40 GHD situps
75 squats (modified from Rx vertical jumps due to rehabbing stress fracture)
For time.  And, being so happy I managed to skin the cat, I completely forgot to write down my time. :)  Different priorities on different days.