For those of you who don't know what a cross fit gym is I found a perfect discription here. It says:
CrossFit is a fitness program focused on maximizing a persons potential in
strength, cardiovascular endurance, respiratory endurance, power, speed,stamina, flexibility, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy. In other
words, general all-around athleticism. Basically a crossfit gym alternates different types of fitness at a fast pace. The gym I went to was really small and had one trainer running the class I went to. There was only 6 of us in the class. I really liked the more one on one aspect of it. We all did the same warm up that consisted of doing 500 meters on a rowing machine. Then we stretched together. After that we worked on doing pushups upside down with our legs against a wall. My friend and I tried a more modified version with our legs on a box. The others did a more modified approach on the wall and just tried to hold themselves up on the wall as long as they could. After that we all split up. The more experienced ones in the class (everyone but my friend and I) started lifting a bar with HEAVY weight on their shoulders and doing squats. I was pretty impressed and it was two women and 2 teenage boys. They did that for a certain amount of seconds and then switched it with rowing. Honestly I didn't pay enough attention to know what they were doing so they could have been doing more.
(this is a picture of what I think the others were doing. I promise I will pay attention more next time)
The trainer worked with my friend and I to see where we were at. He told us he didn't want to push us too hard the first time. We did squats for 20 seconds on and 10 seconds rest. He had us do that 6 times. Then we did sit ups with our legs in a triangle shape in the same 20 seconds on 10 seconds of. Then we did pushups with our elbows tucked right next to our sides. This was definitely the hardest for me. Last we did kettle ball throws in the same manner. I wasn't panting and wanting to die like I thought I would or like my usual workouts so I was a little bit disappointed about that. The trainer told us if we wanted to be pushed harder next time to just let him know. I did however wake up with soar legs and soar triceps which is a good thing of course.
I am excited to report about tomorrow. I think that I will definitely be pushed harder. I cant really say yet if I would recommend crossfit to anyone but so far I really like it.
