Adventures in Crossfit

There's a new trend in the athletic world.  It's called crossfit... you may have heard of it.  I've been considering joining a crossfit gym for a while now, but it's just so blasted expensive that I couldn't justify it (usually about $150/month).  I can barely justify my $10/month membership to Crunch, but I keep it for those few and far between rainy days.  Well a couple weeks back, Crossfit2.0 - which just happens to be right down the street from me - ran a groupon for a 10 class package at $39.  I figured that if I was going to jump on this bandwagon, now would be the perfect time.

Now, before attending a regular crossfit class, they require that you attend 3 of the "fundamentals" classes so as to help you avoid injuring yourself by using the wrong form or what not.  Enter Wednesday... my first crossfit (albeit "fundamentals') class.  Pretty much the whole class was spent mastering the form of the various squats performed in crossfit.

If you check out this video you can get an idea of what we were doing.

In addition to form for your basic squat, we also went over how to squat while holding a bar at chest level and above your head (using only a long piece of pvc pipe in place of an actual bar).  Doesn't sound too bad, right?  Well, I didn't count, but I'm pretty sure that we did a million squats.  It might've been closer to a billion, I'm not totally sure.  My legs were j.e.l.l.o.

The best part is that the next morning when I went for an easy run, I could not pick up my legs!  I'm not even exaggerating on this... I had to laugh at myself the whole 2.5 miles because no matter how hard I tried, my knees would not get higher than maybe 2 inches from normal.  The whole run was basically accomplished by using my calves.  My time was a full minute/mile slower than usual.

I still have 9 more classes left on my groupon, so I will keep you apprised of how those ones go as well.  Should be interesting.

For those of you who are not familiar with crossfit, the video below gives a pretty good representation of it: