Why I love crossfit.

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. ;-)

Daydreaming about a wedding and knowing what I know now.

Everyone that reads my blog or knows me knows that I am a sunrise type of person – fully appreciating the miracle that a new day brings. It’s an opportunity to create a new life, or a new chance to drink in the moments and people that make your life already beautiful.

 

 

Daydreaming now...I have always thought that your wedding sets the tone of how your marriage will be. I used to tell myself that if I was to ever have a wedding of any size it would be at sunrise on the banks of somewhere beautiful - preferably on the beach where the mountains meet the ocean surrounded by close family and friends. We’d get the depth of the ocean and the strength of the mountains and in the middle – metaphorically - we’re standing on the beach between un-imaginary depths of love and unrealized strength that would carry us into a magnificent married life full of both. As the sun rose, we would speak our own vows and then instead of having a reception immediately afterwards, we would spend the day exploring exciting new things we only thought possible in our dreams. The reception would be at sunset, after a fun-filled day of adventure and new experiences. We would toast the special people in our lives and express our gratitude for them and for all the new exciting adventures that were waiting in our life together. The reception would be intimate. It would involve just the right amount of good food, great drinks, the best of friends and family, a lot of laughter and some dancing. It’s the perfect combination that would allow each of us to fully relax and experience what was happening in the moment and give us the ability to go back to our room and make love – and still remember it all in the morning.

***Sigh***

Think back to your wedding day, and the moments when you got married. Does it reflect the tone of your marriage today?

 

(I would be a perfect wedding planner!...just saying.)