{"id":35,"date":"2008-01-28T18:35:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/archives\/35"},"modified":"2008-01-28T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:35:21","slug":"crossfit-lovehate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Crossfit Love\/Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c3\u201a Crossfit is a method of resistance training\/conditioning that will make even the most fit person whine and beg for mercy. It’s a training philosophy that’s growing in popularity- I can’t really describe it, so I’ll just give you a link to the crossfit website so you can read all about it: Crossfit<\/a><\/p>\n

You’ll notice that the workouts look short and usually don’t include anything but bodyweight (with the exception of the heavy, singe rep days as well as the Olympic-style lifts). Yes, they are short, but don’t let this fool you into thinking they’re easy. Most of them have women’s names. Once you’re 4-5 minutes into your first workout, you’ll know exactly why…<\/p>\n

Today I did my 3rd Crossfit workout:
\n“Mary<\/strong>”
\nComplete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:
\n5 Handstand Push-ups
\n10 One legged squats, alternating
\n15 Pull-ups<\/p>\n

Ok, I’ll admit, I used a bar in the squat rack as assistance for the hand stand push-ups as well as the pull-ups, and I used the squat rack itself for balance on the 1-leg squats, but seeing that I just started this stuff, I don’t mind too much. I quit at 18 minutes and 7 rounds, because I was getting the “burps” (precursor to the “pukes”).<\/p>\n

My first workout was one that I made up myself (hence the name):
\n“Andrea<\/strong>”
\n20-15-10-5 reps
\nThrusters
\nVertical jumps
\nPull Ups
\nWalking lunges (that’s reps per leg)<\/p>\n

I urge my faithful (and unfaithful) readers to check out the Crossfit<\/a> website- it’s got video of all of the exercises as well as a workout of the day every day, and a link to a forum where someone is nice enough to put “scaled” versions of the WOD up for beginners and\/or those who DON’T like the feeling of being run over by a truck after their workouts.\u00c3\u201a Also, check out Memphis’ only Crossfit gym, which was started by one of my former U of M students: Crossfit Memphis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c3\u201a Crossfit is a method of resistance training\/conditioning that will make even the most fit person whine and beg for mercy. It’s a training philosophy that’s growing in popularity- I can’t really describe it, so I’ll just give you a link to the crossfit website so you can read all about it: Crossfit You’ll notice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}