I know I was supposed to start the Crossfit stuff a few weeks ago, but I managed to make up some excuses for skipping it.\u00a0 PTO meetings in the way of the schedule, the outdoor pool is open, I got a cold…all the while continuing to work out at home by playing a little roulette with the P90X dvds.\u00a0 I think to be honest what kept me away was a bit of fear.\u00a0 I had heard through the grapevine that some instructors are pretty mean (think Marine Corps DI) and I wasn’t looking forward to someone yelling at me to do more push-ups.\u00a0 I also heard from many folks that it can be pretty tough to move the next day.\u00a0 I\u2019m happy to report that the instructor is not nearly as mean as expected.\u00a0 However, it did take a full 3 days before I could move around without wincing.<\/p>\n
The most pleasant surprise is learning how to fit a good, intense workout into an hour.\u00a0 It starts off with some challenging warm-up moves like lunges, squats, & sit-ups with a medicine ball, and everyone\u2019s favorite: dive-bomber push-ups. If you haven\u2019t tried these yet, you have no idea what you\u2019re missing.\u00a0 (Lucky you!)<\/p>\n
Then you move onto the fun & games portion that may include jumping rope for 4 minutes (a lot harder than it sounds), squat-lifting more weight than you thought you could, or revisiting that old-school shuttle run.\u00a0 \u00a0Following this is the W.O.D. \u2013 Workout Of the Day. <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0This can include just about anything so the only thing you can count on here is to be completely wiped out within the next 15 minutes.\u00a0 Last week\u2019s was a cycle of 200 meter run *(see note), 15 medicine ball sit-ups, then 15 medicine ball squat-jumpy things.\u00a0 Repeat 5 times, as fast as you can.<\/p>\n By the end one round one I realized I probably should have paced myself better.\u00a0 At round two I happily obliged when the instructor called out for anyone with a ball 14lbs or more to drop to 10 squats.\u00a0 (Mental note here: always grab at least the 14-pounder.) \u00a0By round three I believe \u201cJello\u201d is too solid a substance to describe how my legs felt.\u00a0 Towards the end of round five the horrifying thought went through my head that I might actually vomit.\u00a0 At a playground – with preschoolers as an audience.\u00a0\u00a0 Last week\u2019s post-workout effects started within 12 hours.\u00a0 Began in the shoulders and worked quickly through to the quads where the soreness stuck around for a few days.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s WOD was only (ONLY!) 4 rounds:\u00a0 25 jump-squats, 200-meter run, and 25 sit-ups.\u00a0 Round one started off as a bitch with just the jump-squats and didn\u2019t get much better after that.\u00a0 I was told pick up the pace a couple of times, but to me simply continuing to move forward was picking up the pace enough.\u00a0 Let me tell you, those 200 meter sprints are just a tease for the real thing \u2013 and it would have been so much easier to keep skip the other stuff and just run for an hour.\u00a0 It\u2019s taking a little longer to hit with the effects this time, but that really just scares me all the more.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking an ibuprofen smoothie might be just the call for dessert.<\/p>\n Keep on moving!<\/p>\n ***\u00a0 SIDE NOTE:\u00a0 <\/strong>After explaining my \u201cyear off\u201d situation and taking a poll at the Crossfit class, I have made the executive decision that sprinting (Hah!\u00a0 Not by round 2.) 200 meters in the course of an interval workout does not count as going for a run.\u00a0 I was a marathoner <\/em><\/strong>for crying out loud.\u00a0 Two hundred meters is less than the final \u201ckick-in\u201d at most of my races.\u00a0 Thanks for understanding.\u00a0 ***<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know I was supposed to start the Crossfit stuff a few weeks ago, but I managed to make up some excuses for skipping it.\u00a0 PTO meetings in the way of the schedule, the outdoor pool is open, I got a cold…all the while continuing to work out at home by playing a little roulette […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayearwithoutrunning.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}