“Kelly”

Background: "Kelly," one of CrossFit's classic,"Girls" workouts. It's named after Kelly Moore, who "work[ed] for CrossFit headquarters and overs[aw] seminar customer service. The CrossFit bug bit her in June 2003 when she was searching the Web for a way to improve her pull-ups and came across crossfit.com. She worked several years as a volunteer administrator on the message boards before CrossFit offered her a full-time position working for the Specialty Course team in 2008."

“It was the best move I ever made, and I’m very happy working for CrossFit,” says Moore, who quit the police department after 19 1/2 years on the force to take the job."

"In 2003, Greg Glassman published a workout named “Diane” (21–15–9 of 225-pound deadlifts and handstand push-ups), and Moore smashed the WOD, using the RX’d weight, with an elite time of 4:30. Even more amazing than her score was the body weight at which Moore performed the feat—114 pounds. The following day the message board lit up with praise for Moore’s performance, but being humble, she deflected the praise saying that “WOD played into my strengths…I explained that if there was a workout created with running, wall balls, and box jumps, I would do very poorly.” The following day Glassman posted “Kelly”—five rounds consisting of a 400-meter run, 30 box jumps, and 30 wall balls with a 20-pound ball, and no surprise to Moore, her score was in the bottom third. “I never should’ve said anything!” she says." - muscleandfitness.com

"Kelly" was first posted on the CrossFit Main Site as their workout of the day for Sunday, April 10, 2005 (050410).

Intended Stimulus: This should be a long grind with a healthy number of reps. We want you to be able to keep going, but also we want a big resistance from your body saying: "can we stop now, please?" In that delicate and constant battle is where we want you today. Moreover, when you are there we want you to smile and move on. That's the stimulus that'll guide our scaling. If modifying, keep a high number of reps and rounds, but decrease skill and overall workload to match today's capacity. Aim to keep this under 30 minutes. (source: Juan Acevedo)