CrossFit Update

So Toad and I have been to CrossFit 8 times. It kind of seems like more than that. This last Saturday we finished the Foundations Course. It was like an abbreviated personal workout session. I know Toad pretty much only goes because I want to, but I'd like to think that he doesn't hate it. I'm kind of a CrossFit junkie. I don't usually have time to check the web during the day, but their site is becoming one of my most viewed.

When people first hear about the CrossFit they are usually thinking one of two things. It’s either “SIGN ME UP!!!” Or, “Pull ups and Olympic lifts?! NO WAY.” I was one of the latter. Had I not done personal training with my buddy, I know I wouldn't have ever gone. The nice thing about CrossFit is that the program can be scaled to any body, old/young, weak/strong, timid/brave.

Yesterday was the first time I went to a session during the week. (First time I got home from work at a decent hour and wasn't exhausted - something else should break down so I can work from home while waiting for the repairman. It's much more relaxing. That's a blog for another time.)



The people who were there were people I recognized from the Saturday workouts. We did our warm up of squats, push ups, pull ups and sit ups and then did a series of Jerks. I finished in about 10 minutes. My max was 95 lbs. Since that went by so quickly, I did another routine - Cindy - (all of the workouts have names - generally girl names). The Cindy is as many rounds of pull ups, push ups and squats you can do in 20 minutes. I finished 14 rounds.

I know this probably won't be of any interest to anyone other than me, but I thought it would be cool to keep a running list of my CrossFit scores to compare. So I've added yet another list to keep track. Hopefully I'll get better. I can't really imagine jerking more than 100 lbs. or doing a full pull up, but we shall see.





Since I like to include photos here one from one of our first visits to CrossFit. Look how good Toad's form is! He's the push up KING!