Crossfit Experiment

So I finally headed over to the local CrossFit studio to check out the latest fitness rage (http://www.crossfit.com).

Like many of the other CrossFit centers, it's owned by 2 ex-military types which, based on my martial arts experience, gives me the hee-bee-jee-bees. One broken collarbone is enough for this lifetime, thankyouverymuch. I did not expect to like it at all. But my coach loves it and they offer the first week for free so why not? They claim that they can scale the workouts to any level. They included a few pictures of normal looking people on their website. Today was the day.

And my opinion is: definitely challenging but fun. Don't get me wrong. The bias is there. The trainer tried to hide the "another chubby housewife" look. But he asked me to do the same things he asked my husband to do and I hit the mark. The only modification was that I do full pushups instead of dips. Even then, I could pull off 5 real push ups. He was surprised. We took our baseline test. Joe is faster at pushups and sit ups so he beat me by 40 seconds but we both qualified for the full "workout of the day" tomorrow.

I definitely like this type of strength training over the nautilus approach or the power pump classes. Not for everyone but more my style. We'll see how I feel on Saturday.