I attended my first Crossfit class on Saturday. My friend Beth has been going and I have been dying to try it out! They have a free Saturday class, so I laced up my shoes, grabbed the advil and walked into “the box” with excitement!
If you aren’t sure what Crossfit is, here’s a commercial that ran on a football game a few weeks ago!
Needless to say, I got a workout. We did a warm-up which involved some jumping rope, burpees, sits-ups and stretches. Then we got into teams and worked out way through a circuit. Each circuit was 2 minutes with a 1 minute rest in between. We did the circuit twice.
(Crossfits calls the workout a “WOD” which means “workout of the day”.)
Here were our circuits for Saturday:
– Push-Ups (their push-up is a tricep push-up)
– Pull-ups (Yes—I did these assisted with a large exercise band!)
– Box Jumps (I think I almost puked no less than 4 times)
– Squats with a 25 pound weight
You do as many as you can, then tag your partner and they continue while you take a breather. You count how many reps you do as a team. At the end of the 2 circuits, your whole team gives their number and you can see which team did the best.
The verdict is still out with me and Crossfit. There are a few areas that fly in the face of everything I’ve learned about fitness thus far. I’m hoping to learn some more about it before I make any final conclusions!
I will DEFINITELY try it out again. I know people who love it and really love the comradarie that comes with it. These people are TOUGH and have my respect, no doubt!!
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Here are some pictures afterwards. Wish I would have gotten more during the workout but honestly, I wouldn’t have been able to hold the camera since I was gasping for air! LOL!
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This is me doing my first wall climb. (Start in a plank position on the floor.Lift one foot to the wall, then the other and then walk the hands back to the wall until you are parallel with it) I think all that corework I do in Pilates helped a TON with this!
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Do you remember my friends Jinka and Beth from the Warrior Dash? (Jinka was also one of my Shed & Share stories!) Here we are back at it again. We can’t help ourselves. We are gluttons for punishment!
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This is “DMac”. He’s the owner of the gym and the crazy guy who put us through this workout. He looks too nice for this, doesn’t he? I told him he had to attend one of my pilates classes since I was at one of his classes. I’ll show him a real workout!
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So I want to know. Do I have any Crossfitters out there?! Please share your experience with it!
So you asked if you have any cross trainers out there and you are getting crickets – so I’m taking that as a no. lol!
I only wish I had half the tenacity you all have! Way to go!!! I need help just putting my pretzels down and getting off my computer chair lol!!!
Love you girl!
Courtney
Never tried but i would like to. Good for you and great hand stand!!!
This has me very intrigued and sounds like something I would like. Trouble is, we live in a pretty rural area (our town’s population is 2200!) We do have a larger city about 25 minutes away that might have it, but with my 2 kids and their busy schedules it’s hard to find the time to do it. Will keep looking forward to hearing if you try it again and if you have any more thoughts about it. Thanks for sharing!
I’m all in! Officially joined the week before last. My running club buddy already called me a traitor but I can do both right? ;o)
I haven’t tried it yet but I so want to! My exercise times are so booked with teaching my classes that I couldn’t get to another gym. Someday soon I hope! 😀 It looks awesome!
Clare, I know you will be back! Until then I will be working on trying to keep up with you when you return!!
Hey Clare,
Beth is a great friend of mine who I got to drink the CrossFit Kool-aid. And DMac, the trainer at MTM, is awesome! I’m a CrossFit trainer as well and obviously addicted. Kudos to you for trying it out. Hope there is a 2nd visit 🙂
Just finished my 11th CrossFit workout. I love Crossfit. It is a huge challenge for me. I’m almost 48, a mom of many children and needing to lose about 70lbs. It requires determination to do the workouts, but I feel sooo great when it is over and I see/feel the progress, precisely because it is intense. And having a group rooting for you doesn’t hurt either. I dragged my two oldest (adult)sons into it and they like it. None of us has an athletic bone in our bodies. My cousin and my aunt also go there. They can and will scale to your fitness level and abilities while still challenging you with a “hit the wall” workout. I could never make myself be consistent with any exercise before and not interested in soft exercise classes. For me the time for half measures is over. 5’2″ in a size 16 “yikes”. Pray for me.