Here’s how to do it the right way.

Now living in Natick, Massachusetts, she proved it was no fluke with a repeat victory in 2016.

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What is a CrossFit wall walk?

), says that the movement wasnt officially introduced to the CrossFit community until the 2021 CrossFit Open.

According toCrossFit.com, the wall walk is an excellent tool for introducing the basics of inversion.

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In 2016, four-time CrossFit Games veteran Katrin Tanja Davidsdottir did what only two other athletes have done in the history of the CrossFit Games: win the CrossFit Games twice (Annie Thorisdottir won the Games in 2011 and 2012, and Rich Froning held the men’s title from 2011-2014). A native of Reykjavik, Iceland, the former gymnast and track athlete took 30th in her first Games appearance in 2012 after less than a year of CrossFit, improving to 24th in 2013. Famous for recouping her mental strength after a devastating event at the 2014 Europe Regional sidelined her from the Games that year, she returned in 2015 with an improved focus and took the title of Fittest Woman on Earth. Now living in Natick, Massachusetts, she proved it was no fluke with a repeat victory in 2016.

Davidsdottir walks us through how to perform a CrossFit wall walk in four simple steps:

1.

Start on the floor.

Push-up into the top of your push-up.

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Once youre inplankposition, Davidsdottir says to tighten your core and begin your wall walk.

Move one foot at a time.

To begin your wall walk, Davidsdottir says to move one foot up the wall at a time.

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Walk back down the wall.

Then bend your arms so you are back down in the bottom of a pushup position, she says.

From there, its all about repetition.

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In 2016, four-time CrossFit Games veteran Katrin Tanja Davidsdottir did what only two other athletes have done in the history of the CrossFit Games: win the CrossFit Games twice (Annie Thorisdottir won the Games in 2011 and 2012, and Rich Froning held the men’s title from 2011-2014). A native of Reykjavik, Iceland, the former gymnast and track athlete took 30th in her first Games appearance in 2012 after less than a year of CrossFit, improving to 24th in 2013. Famous for recouping her mental strength after a devastating event at the 2014 Europe Regional sidelined her from the Games that year, she returned in 2015 with an improved focus and took the title of Fittest Woman on Earth. Now living in Natick, Massachusetts, she proved it was no fluke with a repeat victory in 2016.

Will you call it quits after one?

Feel motivated to push for two?

Or maybe youll be totally inspired to aim for 10?

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According to Davidsdottir, the biggest mistake you’ve got the option to make is going too fast.

If you think that CrossFit wall walks are an easy way to get out of handstands, think again.

The first time I did a wall walk in competition was in the 2021 CrossFit Open, Davidsdottir says.

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