My Crossfit journey begins

Today, January 12th, 2015, I start a new fitness journey. I have completed several rounds of P90X, Insanity and Body Beast and have at least started P90X2 and P90X3 which I really didn't care for. I have also started T25, which I believe is a good program, but not what I'm after right now.

So today, I decided to join the thousands of others out there who have jumped on the Crossfit bandwagon. For those of you who haven't heard of Crossfit, its defined as this:

With constantly varied, high-intensity functional movements, CrossFit is a training philosophy that coaches people of all shapes and sizes to improve their physical well-being and cardiovascular fitness in a hardcore yet accepting and encouraging environment.

What it pretty much comes down to, and I'm sure there will be people that complain about my simplicity of it, is you are given a Workout Of the Day and you perform it to the best of your ability. Some days it's based on strength training, other days cardio and still others, a combination of the two. It can also be based on time or quantity. For instance, they may give you 5 exercises and you perform them in order and see how many rounds you can complete in 20 minutes. Or, something like perform 75 squats and write down how long it took you to complete. Crossfit is three days on, one day off, and then three more days on for a total of 6 days per week.

There are several websites out there that promote Crossfit. The big one of course is Crossfit.com. I looked at that, and honestly, it intimidated me. So I found another site that better suited my workout style. Look around the internet. There are plenty of websites out there that have Crossfit workouts.

I plan on written an entry in this blog after every workout to help track my progress and hopefully motivate some people to at least take a peek at Crossfit and see if it maybe for them.

With that being said, I present to you, today's Workout of The Day (WOD). I have included links to websites that demonstrate the exercises.

Warmup

Karoke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOze-7t_-J0
Frankenstein Kicks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJRArItvXE4
Bear Walk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmFZaK8VfS4
Crab Walk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9RDjHth_aY
10 Pushups
Inch Worm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFJG4GW5JJk
10 Air Squats - http://gymnasticswod.com/content/squat

Workout

As many rounds as possible in 12:00 minutes of:

10 Air Squats - http://gymnasticswod.com/content/squat
10 Pullups -
10 Jump Squats - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gijGpRSA9FI
10 Pullups
10 Burpees - http://gymnasticswod.com/content/burpee

Cooldown

3 rounds of 5 very slow air squats

How did I do

I ended up doing 3 complete rounds and making through the 10 Jump Squats of the 4th round before my time was up

Comments

The pullups really slowed me down. I have always struggled with pullups and adding them in between other exercises in a timed fashion burned me out. I had to come off the bar several times in the second and third rounds before finishing the sets. I think this will be one of the benefits to Crossfit though. My body will get used to doing exercises such as this and I will get into very good physical condition.


That's it for my 1st day of Crossfit training! I will continue to write each day with the workout and how I did. If you start to follow these workouts, please be sure to comment on your times and if you have any questions.

Thanks

Mark