I’ve been doing Crossfit for a few weeks now and I can
honestly say I. Love. It.
(When I don’t do it – I’m bitchy. This my friends is how I
know Crossfit is changing my body for the better. My endorphins have been put
into overdrive and they no longer like the slow lane, whereas before? they were
dormant and bitched about too much activity in the slow lane!)
Crossfit challenges me. What I think I love best is the unpredictability
of its workouts. It’s never boring and it pushes me to compete with myself. Eventually
I will find the athlete that once existed, but for now, I am happy ending every
workout in the hurling position with sweat dripping from my nose – it feels
great!
I’ve also had Kiki doing the workouts with me. It’s not a competition
about which person will finish first or faster – we workout against ourselves -
to beat our previous scores. She played tennis for 6.5 hours the other day and
still asked if we could do the crossfit workout too! I would venture to guess
that she really likes it...
I can almost write that I think I am totally in love with Crossfit
– I’m sure as I get stronger, I will write those very words one day.
What I’ve learned very quickly regarding Crossfit is that it
is sneaky and progression happens like this:
Maybe on one of your first days
you happen to perform a workout that requires you to log how many pushups or sit-ups
you can do within a certain amount of time. Then you don’t do them again for
two weeks. Then you walk in to find you need to once again log how many pushups
or sit-ups you can do within a certain amount of time and you think to yourself
“it will be the same – I haven’t done any more in two weeks!” and maybe you get
discouraged a little. You begin the workout and recognize that you’ve doubled
your numbers from the first time. Reality strikes - it dawns on you that every different
exercise you had done within those two weeks was ALSO helping develop the
muscular strength and endurance you needed to perform pushups and sit-ups.
You might even smile secretly to yourself --- knowing you
are becoming a badass. ;-)
