Getting started with Crossfit

by sunny on June 24, 2010

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
- Aristotle

July 2007 CrossFit Trainer certification, Sant...
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Whenever I think I have reached the limit of what I am capable of, I find that if I am pushed, I can always dig down a little deeper.  I have the power to amaze myself when I dig down a little deeper.  The mind gives out long before the body, so I have embarked on a path of strengthening my will and practicing digging deeper.  I am beginning Crossfit.

I don’t have a Crossfit box gym nearby so I am doing it in my own garage/yard/home.  When I feel tired and think, “I need a break.”  I remind myself, “You don’t need a break.  You want a break.  Keep going!”

I am not very far into doing crossfit.  In fact, I have done a single WOD (Workout of the Day).  I am starting with the crossfit warmup (CFWU):

  • 2 min light cardio
  • 30 seconds per side samson stretch

2 rounds of (working up to 3 rounds):

  • 10 pushups
  • 10 situps
  • 10 pullups
  • 10 dips
  • 10 squats
  • 10 back extensions

That’s just the warmup.

I doubt that I will get into the heavy, olympic lifting.  I don’t have the equipment to do it or the storage space for the equipment.  I also don’t want to hurt myself by lifting without some sort of instruction.  I do have some rocks that need to be moved around, a yard that needs leveled, and garden dirt that needs shoveled.

For the next two weeks I’ll be doing the CFWU X2 as pre-conditioning before I launch into planning WOD’s.  As I get time, I am working on incorporating the Zone Diet into my eating. (Wouldn’t that be a good topic, Backpacking in the Zone.)  Maybe someday I will get to go to an official Crossfit boot camp at an official crossfit affiliate gym.  For now, I am just want to keep up with my 1 1/2 year old.

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Restarting a blog

by sunny on June 7, 2010

It is never too late to be who you might have been.
George Eliot

I feel like I am writing my first blog post all over again.  I haven’t been here to post in a year and a half.  The best laid plans for a life of adventure turn into a jumbled chaos when you close on a 100 year old fixer upper house and have a newborn baby within a week of each other.  Last summer we were buried in remodeling projects.  I was a doting new mother. And to be honest, I lost most of last year to chronic migraines.

Now that we have gotten past most of the “keep the house standing” remodeling projects and are moving into the “let’s pretty this thing up” projects, we have a bit more time to get out on the trails.  The newborn baby is now an 18 month independent, I-do-it-myself, tornado on two legs toddler.  Thanks to an incredible dentist who helped me get past my fears of getting my wisdom teeth taken out, I am down to one (or fewer)  migraines per month.  I have actually been able to pinpoint the triggers for those migraines (dehydration or a poor night’s sleep).  Going into summer 2010, I feel like I have been given my life back.

Over the next few weeks, I plan on doing some re-organizing and re-designing of this blog.  I am also going to be introducing a few new topics.  This is a blog about my life of adventure.

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