So how on Earth is my lazy ass doing CrossFit? I’ve never even been in any gym. Ever.
Well, it started at work. K2 is a CrossFit evangelist. When she moved here, she started at this gym. She met her significant other there. She’s all about that lifestyle. She even just bought a house from a fellow member. So K2 convinced K3 to sign on for onboarding (They’re both coworkers). I thought the onboarding sounded really interesting because it’s four one-on-one sessions with a personal trainer/coach teaching you how to do everything and use all the equipment. So even if I didn’t continue CrossFit, knowing the proper form and techniques and stuff would be worth it no matter what.
But then to do the onboarding, apparently you also have to sign up for a month of membership. And holy shit, CrossFit is an INVESTMENT. So K2 goes every day and K3’s doing it with me so they promised I’d never have to work out alone if I committed so OK, I’ll give it August.
Our first onboarding class was Monday. It took about two hours. But hold on. It would have been one if it was just one of us. However we wanted to do it together. So we had one coach teaching us both so taking turns back and forth with each lesson item. So we didn’t work out for that full 2 hours. Half the time we were watching the other. I loved learning all the different techniques and how to scale them to stuff I can actually DO. ‘Cause you know I aint doing a pull up! We learned burpees (nope), sit ups, kettle balls (American and Russian style), air squats, ring rows (which is sort of a pull-up learner), incline push ups (loved these compared the real push ups) jumping pull ups (I only needed four risers), dead lifts and who knows what else. Then our actual workout was walk/run, air squats (mine with a 20 inch box), incline pushups, and ring rows.
I felt great about everything except the running. Holy shit I am SO BAD at running. I can walk faster than I run and I’m not even sure how that’s humanly possible, but it is. I also learned that I might as well just jump in the pool after my workout because I sweat more than I ever would have imagined. Also, for $300, I think I deserve an air conditioned gym. But yeah, it might as well have been raining on me I was dripping so much. And even the next morning, my pile of workout clothes was still a sopping wet mess. It was embarrassing. Very much so.
So I’m not to the point where I’d go alone. However, thankfully, I don’t have to! K3 really had to work to get me in the car after work to go. Right up until I committed that payment I was really second guessing so hard. Of course now that I’ve paid, I’m not wasting all that money. I’m apparently in this now until August 11th at least.
Also, as you know, I’ve got an upcoming appointment with a plastic surgeon to see about finally getting my arms shaped up to normal and my stomach straightened out. So I really think I’ll continue this up to my surgery date (If I get one, of course) because the more muscle I have, the better the outcome will be.
And hell, by the time I’ve been doing it that long, I might be drinking the Kool Aid too.